Lyn-z Adams Hawkins

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-09-16-teen-skateboarder_x.htm

• Lyn-z Adams Hawkins is currently 23 years old and skating is her life.
• She wants to take sports to a new level.
• She learned alot that she knows through snowboarding and wakeboarding trips.
• As soon as she started she already knew that she would be famous.
• At age 15 she recieved a gold medal in women's vert skating.

• skating is looked at as if people that skate are criminals
• they do it for fun and because their friends do it
• people that are against skating make shirts boycotting it
• one of them was a skater holding a bloody bat
• they're trying to portray it as violent when it really isnt
• alot of kids that skate come from wealthy families even though they dress differently
• society doesnt support skating because many skaters skate in public places such as staircases, rails, and publc parks which bothers people

how is skating a counterculture?

1. what makes them different when they skate?
2. why do people skate?
3. what different types of skateboarding are there?

Skating is a counterculture. It can be used to relieve stress and its a good hobby. There are many different ways of skating;