Photo By Sgt. Medina Ayala-Lo | Lance Cpl. Niccolo Bonomo, rifleman, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, native of...... read more read more
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TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. - Bonomo enjoys watching anime television series and coaching children's soccer on weekends. He has rode boards for several years riding at speeds of up to 50 mph.
Hometown: Lockport, Illinois
Longboarding to me is kind of like hope. It lets me attain things that I couldn’t do without longboarding. I can go 50 mph on a long board, who else can say they can do that?
I started longboarding about two years ago when my brother gave me my first board. Then I grew into what longboarding really is.
It gives you a feeling of freedom. When you can skate, you feel the wind blowing and nothing’s in your way.
I’d say it was about four months when I got really into it, then I joined the Chicago Longboard Society. It’s a group of people in Chicago that just skate they do meet ups. They do sessions. We also have connections to other societies in Japan, California and some people in Germany.
It’s an expensive sport. I’d say I put about a thousand dollars into longboarding.
Longboarding uses roads and the environment of traffic. It consists of going downhill at really high speeds.
Longboarding provides me with an escape. Feels like flying. Right now I’m actually trying to find other long boarders.
I like shooting games and anything with a good story. I like the new "Call of Duty" and "Destiny."
I game with a lot of people that I know from home, and people that I’ve meet on the game. We’ve known each other online for so long that we’re kind of good friends, but we don’t actually know each other.
One day I was sitting in the Zone and there was an attendant cleaning up. I asked him if he needed any help, and then I just kept coming back. I do it for free and people appreciate what I do.
I volunteer everywhere on base now.
The Marine Corps taught me to be the best in anything I can do and I apply that to longboarding. Like with new hills, if I fall I just get back up, try to go faster and hit the hills harder.
| Date Taken: | 11.24.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 12.03.2014 20:54 |
| Story ID: | 149335 |
| Location: | TWENTYNINE PALMS, CALIFORNIA, US |
| Hometown: | LOCKPORT, ILLINOIS, US |
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