Beyond Boarding: Health Promotion and Injury Prevention Practices of Selected Skateboarders in Angeles City
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: As a major physical activity, skateboarding has higher risks of injury than most traditional sports because of its dangerous nature. Thus, there is a need to develop and provide a comprehensive discourse for health promotion and injury prevention practices among skateboarders. This study describes the concept of health promotion and injury prevention practices of selected skateboarders in Angeles City. To contextualize this, the study employed the qualitative-descriptive method. Through participants’ narratives, a descriptive-exploratory approach was initiated by means of in-depth interviews and field observations. The sampling technique used is snowball sampling drawn from known skateboarders within Angeles City. After interviewing four (4) participants, data were analyzed using Manual Qualitative Analysis through Categorization, Coding, and Thematic Analyses. Major findings implicate that skateboarding is an extreme sport where the majority of dimensions dominating the sports are mostly cognitive and social. Several aspects in these dimensions need to be highlighted and emphasized as part of the discourse on extreme sports and include them into the formulation of health promotion and injury prevention practices among such sports studies to contextualize the nature of skateboarding as a sport.
Source: PUNLA
DOI: 10.67730/tvhwxc23
Institution: City College of Angeles
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7202216723