Lucy Adams, 31, Horsham,
Skating for 18 years,
3rd time on Unicorn
Q: What would you be doing if you weren’t skateboarding?
A: You mean if I wasn’t a skateboarder? Well, it’s hard to think what I would be doing If I a wasn’t a skateboarder. I mean, I used to be very sporty as a child so possibly another sport.
Q: What first inspired you to skate?
A: Well, I used to swim. And they built a skatepark by the swimming pool so I could see it and I could see all the men doing it and I was just like: wow! that looks so much more fun than just backwards and forwards.
Q: Do you think there’s a big difference in getting into skating between girls and boys?
A: Err, possibly when you are a bit older. it’s harder when you’re older because if you go to the places for skateboarding like a skatepark, it is very male-dominated. If youre bit younger, I think you can enter on a same level because you’re still learning’.
Q: How does skating affect your personality?
A: Well, I think about this quite often actually. It helps me being more determined at other things because you know, at skateboard we tend not to give up, we try and try again. So, I think that determination is in other aspects of my life.
Q: How do you think the skateboarding scene will progress in 10 years from now?
A: I think its getting much much more stronger and hopefully people will keep on skateboarding as a method of being… free, like using it as a freedom rather than something to help them in their lives… I don’t know, not to make more money but just do it because it gives you satisfaction.
Q: Do you think it will become more mainstream? Is that a bad or a good thing?
A: Yeah, I think it probably will be. If it is more mainstream it would help with the facilities, it would help to make people more accepting, perhaps. But it could also be detrimental in the fact that it could almost kill the street skateboarding.