The History of Skateboarding Culture (Chunk 1) Ever since I was a little kid, the sport of skateboarding has been an inspiration to my lifestyle. Most people learn to ride a bicycle as their first “vehicle”, but that wasn’t the case with me. For some reason, my parents decided to get me a skateboard before anything, and I fell in love with it instantly. I became obsessed with the way that people rode these skateboards in a fashion that made it look so natural and easy. I started small, learning
Skateboarding Is Not A Crime Each year hundreds of thousands of skateboarders get arrested each year for just skateboarding and about 5/6 of them didn’t commit a hurtful crime. Every day, at least one skateboarder gets arrested. Skateboarders don’t just get arrested but also get tickets, and there are a lot more tickets than there are arrests. If skateboarding was looked upon as a sport this many arrests and tickets would not occur. A group of teenagers could go out, get drunk then go rob stores
Skateboarding began in the 1950’s because surfers got the idea of surfing the streets. Skateboarding started to grow because it made people who could not surf be able to skateboard. I defined skateboarding as a life style that frees my mind getting away from all worries just going out to a skate park or street with some friends and having fun. Professional skateboarder Ryan Sheckler said “For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating
Skateboarding has rich history of innovation and is full of intriguing stories. Many of these stories are documented in this book in great detail. However, this essay will provide you with an overview of the last nine decades. The first type of skateboards were actually more like scooters. These contraptions, which date back to the early 1900's featured roller skate wheels attached to a two by four. Often the wood had a milk crate nailed to it with handles sticking out for control. Over the next
Not one skateboarder has the exact same style. Skateboarding began in the late 1940’s. Its origin began with surfers in Southern California striving to recreate the sensational feeling of carving a wave. (hydroflexskateboards.com) In the early
Skateboarding is something that is world wide, no matter where you live in the world skateboarding will be seen or talked about, it's been created and evolved through different areas and different skills throughout time, there's all sorts of skill sets in skateboarding such as street, vert, freestyle etc., you can even get into the x games or street league and go pro. Skateboarding
Skateboarding Onwards to History Gender inequality is present in all sorts of sports including skateboarding. Skateboarding has been around since the 1950’s and women are not treated correctly in the sport to this day. Just because women are treated incorrectly does not stop them from skateboarding, in fact, it makes them raise with passion. Six articles provide examples of women standing up for themselves, being treated wrongly, show facts and statistics. From women starting a movement, to women
skate crew, later to become known as the Z-Boys throughout California and the world of skateboarding. The film was directed by one of the founding members of the Z-Boys, Stacey Peralta, who would go on to be one of the most influential skateboarders of all time due his self-taught knowledge of film making, most specifically as a director. Around this time, there was a stigma surrounding the new sport of skateboarding, and many saw it simply as a thuggish lifestyle that was set to corrupt the streets
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
Skateboarding is a sport that many individuals in our society do recreationally or even professionally. There are many popular locations for skateboarding that people go to watch the sport in live action. Hollyfield Park is a popular skateboarding destination that many people come to. In today’s technologically growing society, it is very hard to see people outside playing or doing something they love. Banning this sport is essentially stripping away a large community of people from having fun and
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
Safety Equipment While Skating Around 64,500 kids and teens get injured from skateboarding related accidents and need to be brought to the emergency room each year. Around 61,000 from inline skating. Thats around 125,500 injuries a year just from two skating sports alone. Kids, teenagers, and even adults don't understand the importance of using safety equipment while participating in skating sports such as these. Skateboarding is a sport where skill acquired over time. People will practice for hours
Competition Led Skateboarding Back in the 1960’s when skateboarding first became a pastime, it was not popular at all, and amongst those who did it, it was more of a dance than anything else. It wasn’t until 1975 that skateboarding started heading towards what we know it as today. The Zephyr Surf Team, based in Dogtown, began skateboarding as a substitute to surfing when the waves were choppy. They created their own style that was debuted to the public in 1975 at a competition that they won. That
Skateboarding is a sport that many teens and adults love to do and watch all across America. Many people give skateboarders a bad reputation. They assume that skateboarders are rebellious, troublemakers, and don’t care about anything but skateboarding. I’m here to tell you that that simply isn’t the case. I myself used to skateboard and never caused any trouble or rebelled against authority, neither did any of my friends. Most of my friends were good kids who got A’s in school, participated in after
April 2015 Skateboarding is Truly an Art Form “I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment” Tony Hawk. To a skater this would mean skateboarding isn’t just a sport. But also a type of art form. To some people skateboarding is a sport, to others it may be a hobby, or a lifestyle, but it’s really an art form because it allows for individual expression. Skateboarding is an art
coming up with new ways of entertainment and enjoyment. The skateboard is one of the more recent additions to the fascination of the youth of the 21st Century. Most adolescents fall in love with a skateboard after watching the pros in action. The skateboarding is indeed very attractive to all young people because it is daring, it is creative and it definitely is full of action. As soon as you find yourself in love with this new sport, you would definitely look forward to buy a skateboard for yourself
Dog-town, as the locals called it, known as the z-boys in the 1970’s. Even though skateboarding was already known and invented, the z-boys are the ones who made skating famous and took it to new heights in popularity. But how did they do this? The Z-boys made this sport what it is today, and played a very important part in the history and evolution of skateboard style and quality. During the 1950’s when skateboarding first got it’s legs it was a very popular activity to take part in during vacations
Evolution of Skateboarding One faces a life of ups and downs, as it goes down, it is evolving throughout time. The Ollie, a no handed aerial or basic skateboard trick, was invented by Alan Gelfand in the late 1970’s. Similar to a doing an Ollie the rider must pop and pick the board up using their feet sailing high in the air eventually, gravity brings one down at some point, but as it is done more over time progression increases. This sport has always been an individual one. Those who took part
A lot of people see skateboarding as a destructive and idiotic sport but in reality there is a lot of history behind skateboard. Skateboarding has changed drastically over the years with the tricks to the companies and even the skateboard shape it self. The first skateboards took on the look of scooters. the skateboards were rollerblade wheels screwed to a two by four (Brooke para. 2). Usually,the wood had a milk crate attached to the wood with a handle for more control (Brooke para. 2). Five decades
Skateboards In 1950, surfers in California got the idea to surf in concrete and that’s practically how skateboarding was created. But it wasn’t until 1963 that skateboarding started to gain popularity, the sport was at its peak ,but suddenly in 1965 skateboarding simply die, some of the reasons of this sudden loss of popularity was that the sport was extremely dangerous, the boards used