“Skateparks encourage youth to develop healthy, active lifestyles. Research shows that skateboarding and the communities that form at skateparks help young people build connections that benefit their socio-emotional wellbeing.
Skateparks are also havens of diversity, where youth of all backgrounds gather and connect through their common love of the sport.” - Tony Hawk

Skateboarding improves mental health. A recent study from The Skatepark Project and USC revealed that 76% of people skate to have fun, and 62% skate to get away from stress. (University of Southern California - Beyond The Board Study)
 

​Skateboarding encourages resilience. The nature of skateboarding requires skaters to learn on their own and develop their own strategies to succeed. Skaters frequently perform a trick hundreds of times over long periods before developing proficiency or experiencing reward for the efforts. Skaters in the study reported that they apply these lessons of
resilience to their lives outside of skateboarding. (University of Southern California - Beyond The Board Study)

​“Skateboarding is a pro-social activity that provides an
opportunity for relationship building both non-verbally and
verbally. A skateboard affords the kids an opportunity to teach and learn from each other, as well as to learn skateboard etiquette which then helps with socialization.”
(Dr. Emily Wang, Ph.D., R. Psych. Hull Services, Calgary)

Skateboarding is the third least expensive sport (out of 2 1
of the most popular sports, annual average spending on one child, behind only track and field and flag football). (Aspen Institute/Utah State University 2019 National Youth Sports Survey (1,032 youth sport parents)