It's pretty sad the you, a teacher, have such shitty reading comprehension.
Yet, for the younger readers out there (yeah, that's you COTG), looking back today and wondering exactly why old men far and wide see God's gift to skateboarding in such a soft-spoken, beard, XXL-clad nomad currently residing in Argentina--or is that throughout Europe?--I can understand, or at least pardon, some confusion.