Getting fit and strong with skateboarding: Big jump in interest in sport among S'pore kids

SINGAPORE – Gone are the days when skateboarding was seen as a reckless sport for rebellious, angry youth.

If the fact that some parents are enrolling their kids – some as young as two – in skateboarding school isn’t enough to convince you that it could be a character-building sport, a couple of Olympic medals might.

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