Introduction To Skateboarding And It’s History

Ok,first things first,skateboarding is an extreme sport which was invented in the late 1940s or early 1950s by a group of surfers in California,they wanted to surf when there where no waves so a lot of people came up with similar ideas to surfing,they started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom,and in 1973 Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk opened a surf shop called Zephyr,on main street in Dog Town Venice Beach,then a group of surfers came along and continues what the previous ones started about skateboarding,they started with planks,then those planks turned into layers of wood and so on,then a lot of companies started producing them,then skateboarding was referred to as “Sidewalk Surfing”,then Skip Engblom hired Nathan Pratt in the shop to work at the shop after school every day,then Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Chris Cahill and Stacy Peralta joined the shop in 1974 and leter on they where all called the Z-Boys,and they where the original dudes who used to brake into houses and skate it’s pools all day every day.

In 1976 skateboarding was initially focused on vert ramps,and in those days Alan Gelfand was skating with his friends who broke into a house to skate it’s pool,so Alan got bored and went out the pool and started to skate next to it,he was trying to high up in the air with out using anything except his board,and did it and it was something totally new back then and it was called an Ollie refferring to his nickname,and so on it was used by every one,and the majority of people who skateboarded during that period never rode vert ramps,because most people couldn’t afford to build ramps and didn’t have access to nearby ramps,so street skating became popular so did freestyle,and then a skater came along called Rodney Mullen,he invented all of those crazy freestyle tricks such as kickflips and heelflips,the influence of freestyle had it’s own popularity on the streets,then it became more popular during the mid-eighties, that time street skating was still performed on wide vert boards with short noses, slide rails, and large soft wheels,however, skateboard improved quickly in the late 1980s because only few skateparks were available to skaters at that time,and in the early 1990s a lot of companies started producing skateboards and sponsoring all the skaters,and so on skateboarding till today is one of the most known extreme sport which is practised by a lot of teenagers and kids and believe it or not,also girls do skateboarding these days.