Brandon Turner on Skateboarding and mental health how settings up a board is meditation

This is cut up — [screaming] — My name is Brandon Turner. I'm a professional skateboarder in the mental health, substance abuse industry. keep skating because skateboarding is my passion. It's my outlet. It's my exercise. It's my life. I've been skateboarding pretty much more than I've been doing anything else. It's uh it's life to me. When I'm setting up a board, it's um a form of therapy for me. It's like meditation, putting on the wheels and the bolts and the grip tape. Not only that, just gives me time to reflect on my life, too. What's going good and also what's going bad. And it's a good time to meditate and reflect on that. And putting together a board is just like putting back the pieces together. And it gives you some sort of fulfillment of completing something even if everything else has fallen apart. What got me to keep going is just um having faith and believing in myself and other people's testimonies of you know there's always someone who has it worse. you know, there's always someone who's been through it way worse than you and they figured it out and just didn't give it up, you know. And that's why I love skateboarding so much because you just doesn't matter about the tricks or how you maneuver as long as you just keep going and get on your board and keep pushing. And that's skateboarding, too. Just like life.