People Against Longboarding

Although there is a large amount of people that are fine with/support longboarding or have no trouble with it, there are many that are against it. People that may be against longboarding may see it as a very dangerous and reckless sport, and that it is a danger to the environment and the people around them. However, the way I see it is that it depends on what you are doing in the sport, and those who commit the crime should be the ones disliked, not the sport itself.

A common idea of someone who might not like longboarding, and even someone who does may argue that it is like skateboarding, where skates ride and do tricks on public or private property, in crowded places, opposed to at a skate park, and most of the time, cause damage to property by doing tricks and other things. 

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However, the majority of longboarders don't cause damage to property. Instead of grinding off of structures and doing tricks off of them, most longboarders stick to hills where there are no people, cars, or buildings that they may hit, and they can't really damage any property, unless of course, they were to crash into something. Yet, it is true that some longboarders and styles of longboarding make include doing tricks on property. 

Longboarding, however, DOES leave behind something, which are the lines of urethane left after sliding. However, these are not permanent, and can wash off in the rain or wear off very easilly, because it is just dust left from the wheels on the pavement. The damage that skaters may leave behind is permanent if not fixed, and expensive to repair. Not all longboarders do this, but there are some that do, so to those arguing that longboarding can affect the environment, they really don't.

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Longboarding IS dangerous, but so is any other sport that may inflict harm on a human. Most longboarders take safety precautions, such as wearing protective gear, or avoiding places where they may bother other people. The number of people that don't take precautions also can relate to anything else that may be dangerous, so you can argue that the reason why people can be against a sport is related to carelessness, and not to the sport itself. If someone is deliberately affecting others in a dangerous way, it is the fault of the rider, and not the sport.