Skateboarding competitions are amazing to watch! With talented skateboarders competing the adrenaline felt by even watching this amazing sport is all consuming. It's no surprise that this sport brings in five billion dollars a year. These people have talent, dedication, drive and the ability to push fear out the window and do what they love to do: Skate. Skateboarding is an individual thing, about pushing oneself beyond personal limits, conquering fear and daring to be extreme. These are qualities that I personally can't help but to admire and respect. The upcoming Street League Competition beginning on May seventh and eighth in Seattle, WA, then continuing on to Kansas City, KS, on June 11th and 12th with a final stop in Glendale, AZ, on …show more content…
The most thrilling thing about this particular competition is its prize purse, which is set at $1.6 million dollars! The first place prize is going to be $200,000. This amount is the highest payout in skateboarding history! The SLS, which was created by pro boarder, Rob Dyrdek in 2010 and is sponsored by Monster Energy, brought about a superb head-to-head competition. There are 24 of the worlds best skateboarders going at it. All skaters competing for the $200,000 or at least be able to take a slice of the $1.6 million dollar purse home. It is no doubt that this years competition is going to bring some major excitement. Among the registered skaters of this competition are a few of my favorites; Paul Rodriguez, Eric Koston and Chaz Ortiz. P-Rod has a drive that is unmatched by any skater I have seen! He practices hard, skates hard, and has the ability to make a switch 360 flip look as easy as walking! I love Eric Kostons motivation and the message he sends out. I am a fan of his website www.theberrics.com, I love watching the skating that takes place there. One "rule" of The Berrics is, you can skate there but it must be on film. Love that! Chaz Ortiz is a guy with tremendous
Many know Tony Hawk as one of the best skateboarders in the world. He has made many accomplishments in his life. He h...
Why is your topic so important? Tony Hawk is important because he convinced many teenagers to skateboard.
picks up several other skaters and sets off to find a good spot to aggressively
After being mesmerized by figure skating at the age of eight, I became a member of the Markham Skating Club. As a competitive figure skater, I must perform various jumps and spins in a choreographed program. I have participated in numerous competitions in Central Ontario and have received multiple medals for my achievements. Yet, my achievement as a figure skater stem from the adversity that I faced throughout my skating journey. This sport has imposed challenges to both my mental and physical strength that have ultimately constructed the qualities of dedication and humility within myself.
“It comes right here, 3 ½ revolution, triple axel, double toe loop… beautifully landed,” a voice in the background exclaims as an elegant skater gracefully lands her jump on the ice. That background voice has been heard by thousands, but many don’t know who it belongs to. It belongs to a petite male, who had awed a great number of people with his vigorous jumps on the Olympic ice skating rink. That voice belongs to Scott Hamilton, who grew up being made fun of, who overcame a number of health problems, who took the challenges life struck him with, for granted. Scott Hamilton is not only considered one of the best figure skaters of all time, but he is also a great role model, because despite the fact that he had a tough childhood, nonstop Olympic practice to deal with, and then later a cancer and brain tumor diagnosis; he always kept a good attitude and determination.
Often the wood had a milk crate nailed to it with handles sticking out for control” (Warwick Books, “The Concrete Wave”). The Skateboard came after the Surfboard which has been around forever and was
Back in 1965 Sherman Poppen laid the basic foundation of the snowboard. “On Christmas morning, Sherman Poppen went into his garage, cross-braced two Kmart skis together, stood atop his backyard hill and started surfing the snow (MacArthur)” This was it, the be. People flocked around Poppen as he carelessly paraded up and down the local sled hill. The demand for this contraption became apparent to Sherman and he quickly began work on producing more under the name of the Snurfer.” (MacArthur 1). Poppen began rummaging the town for it’s precious supplies and made dozens of the Snurfer. This caught the local media’s attention which lead to the licensing and production of the Snurfer.
A few of those brands who designed their shoes to be like this are Vans, Etnies, Converse and also DC shoes. And to this day those brands and maybe more are still designing their shoes to fit the design of skateboards. “SKATEDELUXE History of Skateboarding”And the first skating contest was in California 1963. That was when things got interesting because they were judged on their abilities and stunts they did. They even made a magazine on skateboarding called “The Quarterly Skateboards” and it was published in
If a town has a skatepark that is built in the right spot and is also built correctly it could improve the looks of the town. Improving the looks of the town will attract people and skaters from everywhere. In order for this to happen the park has to be designed and built professionally. A few rails and ramps that are placed on the outskirts of the town are not going to improve the looks of anything. But, if a nice park is built in a busy, populated area where there are lots of people it will looks great.Not only do skateparks look good, but if it designed and constructed correctly, they are fiscally conservative and require little maintenance(Whitly). After they are built they practically last forever.
“Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.” - Ryan Sheckler. Sheckler meant that skateboarding is more than a sport, skateboarding is way of life and it can take people wherever they want to go. The culture of skateboarding has been taking over the world because anyone can do it no matter what their background, ethnicity, or body shape. This way of life is art form that is expressed through style and maneuvers on a piece of wood with wheels. Skateboarding has become one of the most popular extreme sports in the past few decades. In 2009 there was an estimated 9,281,500 skateboarders in the United States and that number continues to grow each year (“Who Are Skateboarders”). Why then are skateboarders
I don’t remember the exact time when I was first introduced to skateboarding, it was probably around 6th or 7th grade. I remember my “skater” phase well (face palm). Anyway, fast forward a few years and I’m off to college. I was at Auburn University. The campus has lots of hills and slopes, very rough on the shoes. One of my friends, who also rode boards, would let me borrow one of his boards to ride around sometimes, and he would try to teach me how to control the board better. One day, he came to the student center where people often hung out to do work and whatnot with a new board he just bought. He got it from Goodwill, practically new, and since he had a lot of other different boards, he let me have that one. I was pretty psyched, I wanted
Like any other sport, ice-skating is obliged to creative people who bring something new to it. These people are known to everyone as the inventors of particular jumps, splits, spins. They are given credit for their work and, sometimes, the skating moves they invented carry their names. For instance, the Lutz jump was invented by Alois Lutz before World War II; the Walley jump was attributed to Bruce Mapes who performed with the Ice Follies in the 1930s. With Mabel Fairbanks that was never the case. The spins she invented never have been officially admitted to be exclusively her creation.
A few winters ago, some friends invited my family and me to go snow skiing at Paoli Peaks, Indiana. I did not know how to snow ski, and I leaped at the thought of trying this new sport. On the first morning we entered the pro shop to rent all the gear and make decisions about whether or not to take lessons or go it alone. We decided to be adventurous and go it alone—no lessons. Kent and Celeste, the friends who invited us, knew how to ski and snowboard. He assured us that he could show us the basics, and we would be on our way down the slopes. All of us, after a few minutes learning how to wedge our skis started down the family trail. Although the family trail had smaller hills and appeared safe, to me it seemed way
Skateboarders strive to find those skatespots because they are the best way of learning harder tricks, without driving miles to a visit a skatepark outside their city. That 's why skateboarders have a tendency to put themselves in risk of prosecution by the police just to be able to reach their goals of becoming sponsored one day. A sponsorship is when a company wants to pay you to represent their product. This isn’t an easy thing to earn, but with a lot of dedication anything can happen. A skatepark nearby will allow kids to start practicing at a young age, so one day they hav... ...
One was Oksana Baiul who was the 1993 figure skating world champion and in 1994, won the Olympic gold medal in ladies singles. Another was Viktor Petrenko who has won multiple Olympic medals, European championships, and world championships. As a result, skaters from all over the world, but especially the Ukraine, came to New Jersey to train with Viktor and Oksana’s coach, Galina Zmievskaya. One day, when I was perhaps fourteen years old, I got into an argument with one of Galina’s older pupils who had traveled to the United States from the Ukraine to train. I don’t remember anything about that argument except for one thing he said to me, “You have no idea what it is like to wake up one day and have no idea what country you are living in.”