San Diego native teaching skateboarding to students: ‘Anything is possible’

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) – Kekoa Latimore was born and raised in San Diego and has liked skateboarding his total life, so he’s now dedicating his time to sharing that zeal with native college students.

Latimore began the nonprofit Pushing for Training and goes round to native center colleges and excessive colleges to show skateboarding after college. He mentioned studying to skate can train many life classes.

“In an effort to get good at skating, it’s a must to discover ways to settle for failure. You need to discover ways to settle for falling, getting damage, making an attempt it once more, discovering that willingness to attempt it once more understanding you would possibly fail,” he mentioned.

He presently teaches at San Diego Excessive College, Roosevelt Center College and Bayfront Constitution in Chula Vista, with a aim of touring to much more colleges.

He determined to take his after college program to the following stage and host an exhibition, inviting a number of colleges to come back collectively at San Diego Excessive College to skate collectively.

The occasion was hosted Might 11, and Latimore employed knowledgeable to put in a short lived skate park on campus for the occasion, a activity that was about $5,000 and he paid for on his personal.

“I wished to present the scholars an expertise of what it’s like skating not solely with their buddies however even with different excessive colleges, with different colleges across the space,” he mentioned.

He added that skateboarding can get a detrimental fame, however he needs folks to deal with it like another sport. He additionally needs to present the scholars a neighborhood.

“All people needs to really feel accepted. All people needs to really feel concerned. All people needs to really feel like they’re part of one thing. And the earlier they really feel that, the higher they really feel about themselves,” he mentioned.

The nonprofit’s motto: something is feasible. And he needs the scholars to know that.