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Nobody takes formal skateboarding lessons. Joey and Lewis were the Town of Washington’s first skateboarders and they say they taught themselves. “You learn by watching other people, and it’s usually best to skate with kids who are better than you. You learn faster that way,” advises Jonathan Hylton.
To add to their repertoire, they pick up new moves from skateboarding magazines, from movies and from other skaters. Expertise comes fast: “I’ve only been doing it a month and a half,” says Jonathan Hill, in between banked traversals of the two home-made ramps that lean against the stone wall at one end of the parking lot.
“And he’s really good! He picked it up so fast,” Joey adds.
Modestly, Jonathan points out that he was first a biker, and on the two-wheeler developed the balance that he needs to ride the fourwheeled board.
The kids know they’ve got critics. “Are you against us?” they ask, when an observer starts snapping pictures and asking questions.
“There are five towns in this county, and there’s only one spot we can skate at. That’s right here,” Joey notes. “I don’t know what we’d do if the church ever said we couldn’t use the parking lot. It would probably be the end of skateboarding in Rappahannock!”
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