<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>An overriding topic of interest was the intersections between skateboarding as a sport, as a culture, and as social work. How these differing elements feed into each other and enrich skateboarding, and equally how they can form divides. Do structured skateboarding programs (social work) and inclusion in the olympics/formal competitions (sport) ruin the ‘culture’ of skateboarding? Or do they add even deeper nuances to a tradition which is, like everything, constantly changing and evolving? With culture should come solidarity, but without allyship and inclusion which people are the ones standing together?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
