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Skate Board - A Hobby Turn Serious
Skateboard shed its transport equipment image of the late 40s and 50s to become what it is today, the recreational tool. The early skateboard championships were ‘soap box derbies’ held in cities during that era of crude skateboards, which sometimes used to double up as surf boards too. Skateboards as Sports Gear With mass production becoming a reality in the 1960s skateboards underwent a lot of transformation for better; from solid wood or metal Read More... -
Past, Present and Future of Skateboarding
Well believe it or not historical accounts of skateboarding around the turn of the 1900s are in the record. Although they were mostly made of wooden baskets nailed to a 2 X 4 or plank, these concoctions do make up the precursors to the modern day skateboard. The wheels, which were strapped on generally cam off of roller skates; these were the earliest Skateboards. Of course you can already see the problem with wobbling down a hill and crashing a Read More... -
Skateboarding in the Eighties to the Present
Skateboarding traces its roots to the seventies but it really reached the peak of its popularity in the mid-eighties to the present when major skateboard manufacturers propelled it to new heights. First, they started with half-pipe and vert ramp skateboarding. The manufacturers upgraded the boards to make their decks very wide and to equip them with larger and wider wheels. As the years went by, the focus shifted to street skateboarding, which b Read More...
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