The collective

[Antwan]

Cool man, I'm open to ideas.
Honestly I'm just putting feelers out to see if it interests enough people at the moment.
I did think about interviews but I think there's just something more genuine about reading what people have to say versus asking them.
I like to think of this as a blank canvas, the only thing I feel we should have in mind is positive vibes.
Skateboarding is its own language, think of how to translate that into something positive for people who don't know about it, if that helps you anyway if not just whatever you want to write up.
If I get enough people on board I'll definitely look into setting it up so we can all submit to a sort of writing pool and get copies of the book out to everyone.
I've got a couple projects to finish up and then I'm going to look into some writing classes.

[Antwan]

Connected

Just some raw thoughts. No agenda, no bullshit and no organization.
If people want to discuss this or not I don't know, it can get personal but so can skateboarding.
This kind of ties into the idea of my book About skateboarding.

So I've spent a lot of my time in this life just thinking it through.
I've had so much going on since I moved from Florida at a young age.
I was a drunken party goer, skateboarder, artist and this was just in my early highschool days.
There was a point where I slowly started to divide up, and really flesh out who my friends were. Who might've helped me or held me back. From here it was just skating, every day, every spot. We would also skate any park we could get to with an occasional vans warped tour venture thrown in. I went through many phases growing up but "scene" or "hardcore" probably being the one that stood out most.

Does this interest anyone in the slightest? Haha.. I was going to continue the life story and break into how everything connects and your mindset really is what puts it together. How skateboarding helps so many, and remains the same through anything you do.

If someone wants to help me get this thing setup that would be so dope.
I just want a raw book about skateboarding positivity, maybe a place people can just post their writings and I can accept them. I have a couple theories on how to go about that, but I've never done this before.