Warriors Olympics

Many, perhaps too many, have said that skateboarding is not a sport. Someone, with the irony and silliness of someone who has truly lived skateboarding, even said that skateboarding is not a sandwich. Skateboarding is indeed something like a game, a channel for us to express ourselves, a way to interact with the world and others. Who really knows? In any case, it is a game where everything is allowed, even the Olympics, even if a urine fest before riding seems like a contradiction.

Well, welcome to the Olympics! Welcome to its values: solidarity, friendship, participation, equality, and respect. We had the chance to learn these values thanks to skateboarding. At the Warriors, it was never the level of skateboarding that guaranteed inclusion in the group; even the less talented always had the right to bring their trick home and feel like part of the crew.

Fair play is also one of the Olympic values. This is perhaps the only Olympic principle that is difficult to reconcile with skateboarding. At the Warriors, we always respected people - not so much the rules. Fair play also means loyalty. Not everyone in our group was always loyal on our journey, but that gave us the opportunity to love each other despite the unfair behavior.

We could do this thanks to two values that skateboarding and membership in the Warriors taught us - two values that are not part of the Olympic values: irony and frivolity. Irony and frivolity may be the most important values we learned from the Warriors. Everything is relative. Everything evolves. We shouldn't take ourselves too seriously!.