Robert Chafe - Thought #3 - Skateboarders and Failure

So I was sitting in the park yesterday and watching some skateboarders and kind of marvelling at the inherent engagement with failure that comes with skateboarding. It's really admirable. They – usually a bunch of guys – they usually get together, and fail, try things that they know are beyond their capacity but they know they'll only get to if they repeat repeat repeat. And unlike most endeavours that practice doesn't happen in solitude, it happens in congregation, seemingly only happens in congregation with people that are also failing. At best, I guess, that's what rehearsal should be like but so often isn't. And, yeah, I just find it really admirable.