Owing to its extreme nature, skateboarding took some flak early on from the public.

Skateboarding has been contending with its "bad image" ever since it was introduced in Cebu last 1989. But enthusiasm picked up in early '90s and, in no time, the Cebu Skateboarding Association (CSA) was formed.

CSA founder Eugene Neri says that the club has about a hundred members, from different chapters in Carcar, San Fernando, and Mactan. Half of the members, the most active ones, are always present during their assembly.

CSA is busy preparing different activities like skateboarding competitions for this year. In the future, CSA is eyeing a skate park for its practitioners, more demos, more competitions, and more exposure.

Given such a promising agenda expect skateboarding to become a household sport despite the advent of the cyber-age, where everything can be had at the click (and drag) of the mouse.

So what sets skateboarding apart from other conventional sports, like say, basketball? In basketball, if you can shoot a ball, then that's it. But not everyone can skateboard.