Skateboarding is not dead in Vancouver. The city has a number of public skate parks which seem to always have boarders gliding, kick flipping and grinding about.
My little brother was a skate punk and he used to pour over magazines and boggle my mind with all the terms – ollies & nollies, endos and primos. Now that his son wants to learn, I worry about the unsavoury terms like faceplant and roadrash…