The current generation of high school kids get a bad wrap for being constantly glued to their phones and missing out in the some of the wilder IRL activities that kept their parents entertained prior to the emergence of social media. There is a lot of nostalgia these days for a bygone era of neighborhood kids getting into mischief (which is ironically a popular theme on social media for older folks) and we are happy to report there are still kids out there making the most out of unsupervised playtime like this high schooler who likes ripping his dirt bike off embankments and soaring over suburban streets.
Making bike ramps out of plywood sheets and recycling bins and nursing skinned knees from wiping out while sipping Big Gulps on the curb might seem like a vestige of past but there are still plenty of rambunctious youth getting rad just for the sake of it. While we don’t recommend taking undo risks, it is certainly heartening to see kids putting down their phones and participating in life.
