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 in the sport would only have themselves to depend on. Unlike other sports, kids who participate in skaters did not have a coach to teach them how it was done. Skaters who are both determined and resilient will succeed in skateboarding. Author of the Concrete Wave, Michael Brooke advises “It’s not a sport for everyone and
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Skaters had it different from normal people because unlike others, no one else in the world was moving like they were or doing the tricks that were being done out there in the streets.
The life of the Skateboard went through a struggle involving consistency, full of ups and downs as the years went on. Rejected by society, skateboarding was not always considered as a sport by everyone. Some may believe Skateboarding to this day still does not oblige to the requirements of what a sport is, but those claims are just as wrong as society itself. As of the twenty first century Skateboarding has risen from the bottom and faced deficits throughout life. Only Skateboarding faced a prohibition, while still able to make it into the ESPN or XGames world and having a large impact in kids lives everywhere. Changing the outlook people have, on Skateboarding and those who partake in the sport, will forever be an ongoing challenge that will slowly make progression. Just like skateboards they slowly progressed throughout time, getting better and better learning from each downfall
Many know Tony Hawk as one of the best skateboarders in the world. He has made many accomplishments in his life. He h...
During the 1950’s when skateboarding first got it’s legs it was a very popular activity to take part in during vacations to ocean side tourist attractions, or as an activity after surfing. Yet, by 1965, skateboarding had diminished in popularity completely, therefore almost every skateboard manufacturer went out of business. . During this time the only people who even wanted to skateboard were surfers who needed something to ride to practice their surfing while the waves were flat. Due to the fact that there were no skateboards being made or sold, those who wanted to skate had to take it upon them-selves to manufacture their own boards. Using any kind of scrap they could find to build a usable board out of, such as metal scrap pieces or old planks. These determined surfers had to unscrew the trucks and wheels off of roller skates and attach them to the bottom of their boards. And because these kids were from very poor families for the most part, and next to non had jobs of their own, they had to resort to taking the trucks and wheels off the roller skates secretly in the stores. Although.., the clay wheels th...
Interestingly enough, snowboarding was invented by Sherman Poppen in North Muskegon, Michigan, back in 1965. Nowadays, snowboarding is considered one of the most popular winter sports among teenagers. On the other hand, there are many people that don’t have the slightest idea how to ride a snowboard straight down a hill. There are four steps to learn the basic skills of snowboarding.
Freestyle is full of wild tricks, jumping and speed. The rider can be seen high in the air doing aerials, grinding berms, grabbing the board, jumping lumps, or riding backwards. Freestyle mimics skateboarding. Freestylers use natural obstacles to do their tricks. Riders find fallen trees, old buildings, bumps, dips and jumps where they can catch air and get their adrenaline going. They will also go to areas that have man made obstacle courses that resemble a skate park. In essence, it is a skatepark on the snow. These obstacles include ramps, jumps, and grinding bars. Freestylers also play in the halfpipe. It is a tightly packed area where dangerous tricks are performed. The rider must have great skill as they are moving extremely fast and catching major
After Rodney came back from California, his father would not allow him to skate any more. During the times that he would usually be skating, he was sitting in his room writing, reading, and thinking about skateboarding (Mullen 97). On the third day back from his trip, Rodney received a phone call from Skateboard News, which was the leading skateboard magazine at the time. They interviewed him for fifteen minutes. Rodney’s dad heard the whole conversation and called Rodney to where he was sitting (Mullen 97). He asked him who was on the phone and Rodney told him who it was. Rodney’s father decided that, “...with all these people investing money in you, maybe you should keep skating…” (Mullen 98). In 1982, Rodney invented the flatground ollie (Mullen 115). This was a huge accomplishment because without the flatground ollie, modern street skating would not exist. Not only did this accomplishment help him win more contests, it also compelled him to invent new tricks, the likes of which nobody had ever seen before (Mullen 116). After Rodney graduated from high school, he attended the University of Florida (Mullen 142). Rodney was worried that he would have to stop skating when he entered college, but having always been a straight A student, college was surprisingly easy for him. “No one was more surprised than me when I got straight As and won the two freestyle
One of the popular shops was called Fafnir and the cost of the bearings were very cheap. Later on in China they started to make Bones bearings and those are still around today. The very first Bones bearing was Reds and they have just gotten better and better. Then they made Bones Swiss and those are the fastest compared to the Bones Reds. When those kinds of bearings came out that was when skateboarding was born.
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.
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... ...
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 doing what they love.
It is beneficial for everyone to get some fresh air and enjoy the scenery in their cities. Many like to take strolls, others like to play sports. One sport in particular that allows people to enjoy the outdoors is skateboarding. Skateboarding has been popular for many people in Jerrytown for a long time, and has allowed them to appreciate the city. However, there is a proposal for a ban on the skateboards.
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.
”Skateboarding provides a perfect opportunity for a young person to take calculated risks in a controlled environment, with very real and immediate consequences if maneuvers are not executed properly.”(Becic, 1) As this quote describes this provides the individual with skills that are needed in decision making by showing the negative solutions to a situation, that aid the individual to make important decisions to be successful in life. As reported by Infobarrel, 12 Benefits of Skateboarding written by Travis Aitch “This benefit of being able to ignore fear and commit to a difficult task can easily translate into many other real life situations such as having a clear and focused mind during emergency situations.”(Aitch, 2). Skateboarding also creates endurance to stressful situations like losing a job or having a pet run away, this prepares the individual from becoming a weak and depressed individual. In the end, this makes the person develop faster reaction skills than
Skating has grown a lot in the past few years and there is many skating YouTube channels. Many of them are really big channels as well. A lot of people hate skating because it can be dangerous. skating is dangerous but that’s part of the fun.
In this paper I will be discussing the idea of constructing a local skateboard park in Richmond Hill. I will be looking at the pros and cons of building a skateboard park and it’s impacts on society through the use of examples and information I have researched.
In conclusion, the game is more than one hundred years old. It has expanded to include amateurs to professionals. The rules have changed somewhat for the better of the game. This truly American sport is still fun, competitive, and exciting!