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I'm pretty good at it
published 2007
By Ian Harvey
We do skateboarding, lacrosse, soccer, dodge ball, tennis, hockey. I'm going to All Star Sports Camp every week for four weeks. You get to pick a major sport-mine is skateboarding-and they bus us to the skateboarding park. Then there are a couple of minor sports-or you can pick another major sport. The counsellors are really cool and we get to learn new tricks with our boards. Some of the campers are new to skateboarding, so they don't know much, but I'm pretty good at it. They make you wear your knee and elbow pads, even if you have a note from your mom that you don't have to. But I always wear my helmet. And I played lacrosse this year. It was my first time, so I'm still learning the rules but I had fun. Shane, 13, second year; Richmond Hill ON

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