With limited interaction and activities during the Coronavirus shutdown, students have been trying to find new ways to spend their time. An activity that has boosted in popularity during this time is skateboarding. Students have asked what is so interesting about skateboarding that has caused the fascination.

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Despite this sudden push towards skateboarding during quarantine, students have already had an interest in skateboarding. Whether it was simply a fleeting thought or an actual hobby, students seemed to have already been interested. “I started back in 6th grade,” sophomore Nick Carneiro said.

Students did have interests in skating before quarantine, but never got around to learning. “Yeah, I had an interest in learning before the Coronavirus,” sophomore Rafael Quatricci said.

Students were asked about what pushed them towards learning to skate. Most students had a similar answer. The free time that was created from quarantine seemed to be the motive for students to learn. “I had nothing else to do,” Quatricci said.

This spike in interest has been noticed by the students. Students have been able to recognize how their peers are learning to skateboard during the shutdown. “I have noticed more kids have been learning how to skateboard,” Carneiro said.

Students who do not skateboard have noticed this trend as well. The explanations provided as to why students have been learning to ride skateboards recently were similar to what students who skateboarded said. “They have all this free time and wanna do something with it,” sophomore Robert Hsu said.

A sudden rise in popularity is not something seen often. When something increases in popularity so quickly, it is unlikely to maintain the same level of attention for long. “I think it’s a trend right now, but I think the new attention will help get skateboarding to how popular it used to be,” Quatrucci said.

Reports of a COVID-19 vaccine in production have been receiving attention. The possibility of COVID-19 finding a vaccine has brought into question how much longer quarantine will continue. This has also made students question if more students will want to learn to skateboard. “It doesn’t seem like as many kids are skateboarding as the same amount near the start of quarantine,” Quatrucci said.

Unlike Quatrucci, students have also stated the opposite. Students have argued that skateboarding will continue to rise in popularity as students would now be willing to pursue it. “People will have now learnt to skateboard and will have the motivation to continue,” Carneiro said.

Students which do not skateboard have also been questioning the popularity of skateboarding in quarantine. These students have noticed the popularity of skateboarding and feel that the Coronavirus was only the start of the newfound popularity.
“I think skateboarding will continue to be popular after COVID-19…interest will probably get higher,’ Hsu said.
Skateboarding has captured the attention of students throughout quarantine. The popularity of skateboarding seems to be growing and students hope that it will continue even after we return to “normal”.