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    Impossible Skateboard

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    fooled by the name of this trick - I assure you that, although it is a difficult trick, it is possible to master with a lot of practice. This article is meant as a guide for you to understand what an impossible is, and how to do an impossible on a skateboard. The impossible is essentially done by popping the board with your back foot and making the board wrap around your back foot. Sometimes if an impossible is done incorrectly, it will be mistaken for a 360 shove it. The reason it may look like

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    How Skateboards Invented

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    So this is my topic and this is my research for how skateboards have advanced through my words 1950s This was the earliest known advent of what we would recognize as traditional skateboarding, beginning in California, where surfers invented a plank on wheels to simulate surfing on land. According to Wikipedia, the first skateboards were originally manufactured for surfers to use when they weren’t in the water. Crafted out of square wooden boards with a set of skate wheels from roller skates, Wikipedia

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    “Mom, do you know where my skateboard is?” I yelled from my room. “I checked in the backyard, but I couldn’t find it!” “Check the garage, Alex,” my mom shouted back. “Fine!” I responded. My footsteps trudged to the darkness of the garage. Unfortunately, the garage held only our battered car, so I ran outside to look for the board. After what seemed like years, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed four-wheeled skateboard running down the street. My heart beat as fast as Usain Bolt in the 100-meter

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    Skateboards are a great form of transportation for students who live near the campus and for students to travel in between classes. Skateboards are light objects to carry around, and it does not take a lot of space when placing it on the floor. Many students prefer to use skateboards over bicycles, because it is more convenient to ride and less expensive to replace. Skateboard does not have many mechanical issues unlike bicycles. However, some students do not understand the danger they can promote

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    first ever skateboard was made. In the early 1940’s and 1950’s many surfers in California wanted something to do when the waves were flat which mean, they weren’t able to surf. The people who supposedly came up with the idea were a few surfers who wanted to be able to do something similar as they did in the water. Skateboarding history still has a mysterious origin. No one to this day knows who actually invented the skate board. Several people have claimed to have made the skateboard but nothing

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    The first skateboard I made was really only a little RC motor on the electric skateboard I already had. I had the idea to make my own electric skateboard when someone passed me riding a bike while i was on my electric skateboard. I wanted to make my own skateboard because I knew I could make it go faster and I just didn't think it was right that someone on a bike could pass an electric skateboard. For the first skateboard I really just nailed things together and hoped it would work. Throughout I

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    Justice Thomas Mr. Williams English 10 6, october 2014 “How I Learned To Ollie On A SkateBoard” Learning something new can be a scary experience and risk taking sometimes depending on what you are learning. Learning to ollie on a skateboard was one of the hardest things i ever did. To know how to do a ollie you would place both of your feet on the board and slide the foot thats in front up towards the nose of the board with

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    Skadurz Pro

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    Instructor: Kathy Tarrant Date: June 24, 2010 Case Study Elements 1. The primary case participants are owner Joel St. Marseille and his mother full time manager Connie St. Marseille. 2. The organization is Skadurz Pro which is a store that sells skateboard and snowboard equipment as well as clothing, shoes and accessories. 3. The problems facing this organization are the retirement of Connie, the stores full time manager, as well as the stores two current locations. There is competition moving in

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    together and made it into a great long journey or a very painful one. Cause of this great ordeal on where these parts where made every part of the skateboard has a reason for what it is built for. What kind of metal does it need so it can grind on a rail so perfect each and every different time? How was the first prototype of the first skateboard invented? "We need

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    Skateboarding is Illegal This may come off as shock. Skateboarding is illegal in certain states. There is nothing wrong with riding on a piece of wood with wheels. In the skateboarding community, most see it as an art, lifestyle, and a passion. But what about outside of the community. What do the people of this world normally think when they see a skateboarder? Most of the time people see it as destruction of property, punk kids, and dropouts, but have you ever seen it from a skateboarder's

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