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uigges caught a nde from Amissville to Washington where they joined their friends Jonathan Hylton and skateboarding veterans Joey Eldred and Lewis Compton at the Trinity Church parking lot for afternoons of board practice. Working for hours on perfecting “Ollie airwalks” and “Frankie hang-ups,” they drew a crowd of regular watchers — other youngsters too cautious or too chary of scabbed knees to try — and just as regularly they sent hearts up into the throats of grownup onlookers.
But not to worry, they assure adults. “In the four years I’ve been skateboarding over here, nobody’s been hurt. You may get bumps and bruises, but you can get those doing anything — baseball, basketball, any kind of sport,” says Joey Eldred.
A check around the Rad Thrashers, as they’re dubbed by the nonskating audience, found only one serious injury. “I broke my arm skateboarding,” Jonathan Hylton admits. “?ut that was late at night, and I vas going down a steep hill on the Fodderstack Road.” After the mishap, his parents banned the board but relented in the face of his unyielding persistence, he says.
It is definitely a sport, the youngsters affirm. And just as with any sport, skateboarding has trappings of its own. Of course, there’s the board. “They cost about $150, if you get a good one,” Jonathan Hylton says.
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