Some things you intend to do some day, when you get around to it. The idea comes into your head, maybe from your heart, and takes a while to percolate between them and then one day comes to pass. Like a baby in his mother's womb who will some day be born and then maybe named after some body... it all has to come in it's proper time. We do not know when that time will actually be, but as for me, I was born two months early and it was my Dad whom I was named after. What about you? What is your birth story?
I have been riding skateboards for most of my life and for the last three years I have been riding with a growing group of kids in a mega-city that has seen very few skaters rolling around, looking for fun and adventure. For years I have thought of what I would call this community when the time would come to put a name to it. To me it was always going to be the '180 Contingent' or shortened to the '180 Cons'.
One of the first things any skater learns is something called the One-Eighty. It is one of the fundamentals of sk8boarding and is incorporated into most other tricks to make them even more difficult and complicated, or crazy and beautiful, depending which side of completing the trick you are on. A friend named Paul once asked the question to some young guys "Can you do a 180?" Can you in some way turn around and head in the other direction? Spiritually speaking.
When I was a child I heard Jesus say "follow Me". I was going my own direction and in order to follow Him I had to do a 180 and follow after Him. So many things in life are simple but difficult like this. So simple that even a small child could do it, but so difficult that very learned and respected people would see it as impossibly difficult to do. Those who become a part of Jesus are also a part of each other. A synonym for the word "contingent" is "dependent on". We are dependent on Christ, first, and of course we are dependent on each other too. We don't walk alone. We are a part of a greater whole.
That is how the name has come about. Some things just need to be said first. Other things come later.
Welcome.
