Street skateboarding

Speed. People nowadays can’t get enough of it. There are ample ways to reach ridiculous speeds: fast cars, to racing bikes, superbikes and skiing all break the bounds of ‘too fast’. However, a group of the longboarding community-a subset of the skateboarding community-seem to disagree. They ride their longboards, long, wide skateboards with big grippy wheels, down mountain roads at speeds between 30mph and 70mph, reaching 80mph at the professional end of the sport. 30mph. “Only 30mph!” you might say

Nowadays, skateboarding is a very popular activity among youth, and has become an art-form to many enthusiasts. Skateboarding is a hard sport to learn. It 's not something that can be learned overnight. Even the top pros like Paul Rodriguez and Eric Koston still learn new things even though they have been doing it for years. With skateboarding, there are endless possibilities when it comes to tricks. When it comes to beginners, learning the basics is the best way to start this great pastime. First

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 notes that “skateboarding was originally denoted ‘sidewalk surfing’ and early skaters emulated surfing

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 dash when thoughts about the consequences of losing my skateboard popped into my brain. Months of yard work would be wasted if my skateboard dropped into the vastness of the sewer. I sprinted towards

to go outside and skateboard. Most people in California like to skateboard. Some different skateboards people like to use are the normal skateboards, penny boards, or long boards. Skateboarding is interesting to me because the history of it and I just like to skateboard whenever i’m bored. The history of skateboarding isn’t exact, but is still interesting. Larry Stevenson created or came up with the idea of the skateboard. He was born in 1930 in Santa Monica California. After high school, Larry

History of Ice Skating A treatise on skating (1772) by Robert Jones, had the first account of figure skating, the sport had a cramped and formal style until Jackson Haines introduced his free and expressive ways based on dance movement in the mid-1860s. Ice skating (figure skating) was popular in Europe. Haine’s style was called the international style his style did not catch onto the United States later on after he died. In the early 20th century Irving Brokaw and George Browne helped formalize

idea to create a board with the unique shape of a fishtail. Area of interaction With this project I am trying to get people more interested in how skateboarding and the way of making a skateboard works.

The Mysterious Space Trooper One day there was a mysterious but friendly space trooper. The space trooper was lonely and sad because he had nothing to do except skateboarding. He lived on the moon and he noticed there would be no one to be his friend because there are no people or any other friends that live in space but one day he found an alien and the alien didn’t want to be the space trooper’s friend because the alien thought the trooper was bad. After that, the strong trooper was doing

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

Skateboarding was created as an extension of surfing in 1950’s and 1960’s. This style was viewed as a graceful sport, but lacked legitimate attention from the public, leading to its inevitable decline in popularity. Former Zephyr team member, Stacy Peralta showcases the resurrection of skateboarding by presenting the audience the experiences the Zephyr skateboarding team in his documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001). The Zephyr team (also known as the Z-Boys) were the pioneers of modern skateboarding