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Crimson_Ghost
Not a bad attempt! The hippy jump over the tree is nice. Shooting skating is hard, especially without flash as you'll need your shutter speed at 1/1000 at least.
First things I ever shot on film were skateboarding, and main thing I learned was you need a really strong composition to show the trick well, and that you'll burn through A LOT of film. There's a photo (maybe video) somewhere of Atiba Jefferson sat at the bottom of a handrail in a pile of maybe 50 rolls of film, all of them pulled out and wasted because they weren't a make