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Barney Page, a professional skateboarder, embarks on a 900-mile journey in memory of his friend Ben Raemers, aiming to raise awareness about suicide and mental health through heartfelt conversations and the impact on skateboarding.
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00:00There's not a lot left that you can do in skateboarding that's like the first time that
00:10something's been done like for him to be like I'm going to do this momentous like full stretch
00:15from John McGrath to Land's End for this foundation that's set up in the memory of
00:19my friend and I'm doing it for me. It's mental. It is shining a light on that really dark situation
00:32that one of Barney's close friends killed himself. With suicide it's something that is so impossibly
00:46difficult to try and understand don't brush suicide under the carpet man this is real people are losing
00:59friends and family every day and a lot of its men because we ain't so good at talking to each other
01:07it's our job to continue talking about why and what happened there because if we don't it just
01:16he's just died he didn't take his own life he just died it's not the same thing
01:28This is his way of like making a mark and like contributing to this like ongoing
01:33conversation and this change that's happening within skating
01:36the further and the harder I push myself and the longer we're on the road if I don't give up it's just
01:48push the awareness that much more isn't it
01:57Going through an entire country piece by piece with my friends it's hard going but it's a great
02:02moment in my life I don't want to take it for granted
02:05You
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