The History Of Skateboards

Skadurz Pro is a family owned and operated retail business which specializes in skateboarding and snowboarding equipment. Owner and manger Joel St. Marseille has built his company from the ground up in the community of Sudbury, Ontario which is the largest city in Northern Ontario with a population of around 150,000 people. Skadurz was the first retailer that specialized in skateboarding and snowboarding equipment in the area, and provided top level service and knowledge because of Joel’s personal knowledge and expertise in both sports. At a time when there were not many options for purchasing the new shorter board skateboarding equipment in Ontario, Joel provided many options and price points, as well as offering to custom order any

When Olympic snowboarders step up to the top of the half pipe to perform, the pressure is on because they know the world is watching. Even under this pressure Shaun White has three Olympic snowboarding gold medals. This makes him the most decorated Olympic snowboarder of all time ("Shaun White-Olympic"). As Shaun White competes, he inspires people from around the world to be the best they can be.

Tony Hawk was a professional skateboarder that was helping Shaun White with skateboarding. When Shaun was finally 17 years old he turned into a pro. For snowboarding he was trained by a man named Burton. He made Shaun white a famous professional at snowboarding. He then started his career which was snowboarding after he turned pro in Burton's

The norms of skateboarding are more masculinity, participant control and the de- emphasizing of competition. Participant control is that there is not any referee, no penalties or set plays. With the lack of formality, it allowed them to show who they really are. De-emphasizing of competition means to reduce the need of competing against others.

Another memoir? It feels like the teachers in every grade meet and come up with the same assignments. It’s pointless. At least it’s like a free period. It’s why I sat in the back. I can be fully secluded and do what I want, even though it’s a large open library. Jam out, watch some videos, whatever. I won’t do well on this paper or in this class, but forget it. School just doesn't seem important compared to anything else in my life. In every class I just sit and think of all the better things I could be doing. Why do I have to be stuck here? I should just walk out. My life has just been going downhill for the past few years. Who would want to write about that? Nonetheless have somebody read it. A few minutes ago, my teacher asked why I didn’t

Throughout time, the progression and evolution of snowboarding has increased greatly. It has gone from non existence in the late 1970’s, to one of the most watched action sports in a matter of thirty-five years. The upward takeoff and popularity of snowboarding relies on two people, Jake Burton and Shaun White. Jake Burton back in 1977 had the vision for what snowboarding would be, but Shaun White had what it took to manifest that vision. Evidence has shown that time brings change in sports, history has repeated itself with snowboarding, this history reflects the time & changes that has occurred in America.

As the party bus from Brooklyn arrived at 50/50 Skate Park in Staten Island, we watched a few professional skateboarders doing their best tricks. The next portion of the day involved huge blow up bean bags of Andy Mineo from the new album cover, protective glasses, and Nerf guns. Andy appeared out of some

Snowboarding has an amazing background and explanation of how it came to be. It all started with the people who surfed and skateboarded. They wanted something similar to do in the winter. Sherman Poppen was the creator of the snurfer (an early snowboard) in 1965. Sherman was one of the skateboarders who wanted to surf but lived in Michigan. One day he nailed two skis together and attached a rope with a handle to the front thus creating the snurfer. Sherman then called his friends, who were engineers for the Brunswick Corporation and asked them to make some of the snurfers. The Brunswick Corporation made skis, bowling balls, bowling alleys, and bowling pins. The snurfer took the world by storm, but people wanted a safe way to ride. Eventually Jake Burton Carpenter started making a new model called the ski board and this was the first company for snowboards. Jake Burton was a Stockbroker who fell in love with snowboarding and decided to take the risk and start making them. He became the founder of the

Every Saturday, my sister Precious and I always go to Skate City. We used to go to Fun Spot, but we stopped going.

Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. Skateboarding is relatively modern.

Originally made for surfers, the board was meant to act as a surfboard riding waves, but for pavement. In the 1960’s companies began to mass-produce these boards due to the spike in popularity. Some of the more earlier surf skaters were; Mark Richards, Bruce Logan, Torger Johnson, and Dannel Bearer (Skateboarding History). The first trick called the “Kick tail” which was established during the 1970’s as well as Urethane wheels, which provided more traction, speed, and displayed innovation (Skateboarding History). In continuation, skate parks, pros, skate magazines, and movies arose in quantity. In the 1980’s more style of skating was introduced, street style. Like the great awakening, skaters began to build their own ramps and rails to skate. The trend topic for attire was the infamous baggy pants, shirts, and retro shoes. Skateboarding finally hit exposure when they attended the first X Games. This rejuvenated skating from an underground sport to a spectator sport. The skaters who attended the X Games also get paid money that ranges from 1,000 to 10,000 a month (Skateboarding History,). These now so called “Pros” received their possessions based on wins, talent, placement in competition, and the quantity of contest they participate

How do you regard skateboarding? I don't like skateboarding. It's a sport where I don't see myself in. I am more of a guy who likes sports with balls. Skateboarding belongs to the extreme sports category and I am not in love with that category. I find this activity boring and not entertaining. I don't like the game play in general. It's also a dangerous sport and I wouldn't surely practice it. Even when there's skateboard playing on TV, I get bored fast. I have tried it a couple of times and it's not much of a thrilling activity to

Hockey sticks are definitely the most important part of any player’s equipment. The long history of hockey sticks have undergone much evolution. At the beginning they were simple wooden branches, but in present day they range from fiberglass to composite. Most hockey sticks nowadays range from $100-200. There are four different sizes of hockey sticks, youth, junior, intermediate, and senior. There are also many different blade patterns, coming from different brands sponsors.

The sport of bowling has a lengthy history packed with an evolution that has comprehensive rules; and is an indoor activity that has become one of the most popular sports in the world. It can easily be said that over 50% of Americans have bowled once in their lifetime, whether it was for a birthday party or on a date. However, many people bowl routinely without knowing anything about the interesting history of the game.

So, I’m going to change things a bit. Instead of just talking about dates and numbers, which can be boring; I’m going to give this a little casual twist. So, in order to start the history let’s get a few facts out of the way. Let’s talk about gamers, mainly because I’ll be using the term a lot; gamers are people who spent a lot of time playing videogames. The Average gamer playing video games has spent twelve years playing them. Adult gamers have an average of fourteen years of playing videogames, guys have an average of sixteen years, and girls have an average twelve years. Speaking of girls did you know that 47% of gamers are girls? I would have never guessed that, but it’s a fact. So, as of 2013 49% of all people who live in The United States owns a console. All of them that own a console have at least two of them. Me, I own eleven… I think I may have a problem. Anyway, now that some of the facts are out of the way let’s start, THE HISTORY OF VIDEOGAMES! Now before I start I want to talk about all the most important events in the history of videogames, as I call them eras. Each era is very important because they shaped the videogames we know and love today.