Skateboarding?

well to starts out no you DONT necicarily need shoes when i started skateing i wore my adidas and got i could ollie pop shuv it and indy with my adidas but skatershoes really do help you skate they have more girp they are lighter and have more controll over the covocane on the board makeing it easyer to flip it and stuff (the covocain is the part where the board curvs up by the nose and tail) but you dont NEED them and ya skatin can b that dangerous luckly i havent had any MAJOR acidents but just yesterday my friend cracked his head open by skateing in his basement when he tryed to hit a gap fell and triped into a wall also reynolds and spaceman (srry if i got ur names wrong) were absoloutly right about what they said you need to literaly jump after you pop the board and tuck your knees in to get ur pop higher