1. THE LONGBOARDING EFFECT BY: FELIX REYES

2. THE PRESENTER Felix Reyes Jr Puerto Rican 17 years old Youngest of three and only boy

3. WHAT IS THE GOAL? The goal for making this website is to explain to the world what longboarding is and how it’s helped people. So people will know why we do it and that some of us aren’t just doing it to be trouble makers. To make people aware of the greatness in the famous sport and share not only my experience but other people like me.

4. WHY LONGBOARDING? Longboarding for me, is more than just a sport or hobby. Longboarding for me, is an escape... It’s something everyone should know about. It’s something that has become very known of not only in my life, but the worlds. I chose longboarding for my project because it’s something that I do all the time. It’s something that people look at with either amazement or disgust but no true understanding of what it actually does. So I’m going to explain what longboarding is…

5. It’s an adventure…

6. It’s friendship…

7. It’s an art…

8. It’s speed…

9. It’s endless…

10. It’s freedom…

11. CREATING THE STORY Due to a few saving and downloading errors deleting a majority of the website, only a menu with a few descriptions exist. However, the missing information is being put back onto the website with a few better tweaks.

12. THE STORIES -Jeremy Dell, CA

14. Therapists and their patients find stress relief in skateboards Donning kneepads and helmet gear, Alex Batista, 47, smiles as he rides silently alongside his therapist. “Longboarding forced me to focus on what I was doing and not what I was going through — the suffering and everything else,” said Batista. Last October, Batista’s wife Claudia, 48, died after undergoing a year of intensive chemotherapy treatments for ovarian cancer. They were married 12 years. “I use longboarding as exercise, but I started to feel different. My stress was being reduced and I liked how I was feeling. It was a different sense of joy,” Longboarding had all the hallmarks of the positive psychology theory called flow. Flow is what surfers and skateboarders call stoke and it’s that feeling of complete happiness in the moment. Isaac Farin, Batista’s wife's therapist and also avid longboarder, believed that by teaching his patients to longboard, they could take their minds off their pain, let go of fears, maintain a sense of control — all while having fun.

15. “It’s not about the destination… …it’s about the trip…”