Skateboarding History

Skateboarding has rich history of innovation and is full of intriguing stories. Many of these stories are documented in this book in great detail. However, this essay will provide you with an overview of the last nine decades.

In his new book Until it Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How it Harms Our Kids, author Mark Hyman shows how parents have turned youth sports into a high stakes game of poker at the expense of their children. Hyman’s explores the history of youth sports in our country and how it has evolved from a fun past time to much more intense sport with heavy participation of parents. This book not only takes a look into youth sports today it will expose a lot of the negativity surrounding it. Hyman does not just point the finger at other parents but offers his own account of

Skateboarder’s, rolling down the sidewalk then all of a sudden boom they crash into someone. It could have been an accident but it could also could just be carelessness. This is why skateboarding should be banned from public sidewalks and public places.

The subcultures have often been considered as the phenomenon that stands out from the society and contradicts it. Nevertheless, the emergence of any type of subcultures is to a high extent stimulated and supported by the social factors as well as historical ones. The events that triggered the emergence and the development of the Z-Boys group and their subculture that later transformed into the complete culture and ideology among the American youth. The documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys depicts the story of a group of outstanding surfers who decided to use their skills on land and popularized the skateboarding in Santa Monica and throughout the United States. While in the 1970s both surfing and skateboarding were the countersport cultures, the

Now I don’t know about you, but people all over the internet think they know what they're talking about when it comes to if skating is good or not. Well i say enough is enough, I really don’t know what people are thinking when they say “Skating is dangerous or it’s a public crime.” Well that’s just not true, and by the end of this you’ll have my back. Now let’s start off with “It’s dangerous” The only reason people say that is because their kids think they can do anything that revolves around skating, try to do a trick and fall flat on their faces.

Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. Skateboarding is relatively modern.

Dear Editor of the Buckner Harold, Buckner’s issue that is plaguing its teenagers is that there is nothing for them to do, when teenagers get bored they can get very destructive the best way to counter this is to have something for teenagers to do that they like. Buckner is a small town with not a lot to do for anyone, but the teenagers really get the short end of the stick. Presently there are playgrounds for younger and smaller kids to play on, and there is a bar and restaurants for adults, but nothing for teenagers. As of right now there is a small skateboard park put in almost ten years ago. As with anything built almost ten years ago the skateboard park is getting older and was not upkept very well at all, so it is not very fun for the

Hip hop has clearly influenced our society in a controversial way. Although people don't like the negative influence hip hop can have on their young, it’s an industry that is growing commercially. Legally, there isn't much that can be done about an artists’ expression, but education and parental guidance will reduce the impact of hip hop’s negative

to december 2012 and how state laws are trying to make it safe for youth sports. In the

In some cities in the United States, Longboarding has been banned on specific roads Dangerous sports have always been a tremendous interest to a large percentage of the human population. The intensity of fast paced dangerous sports such as longboarding joined with healthy rivalry and a competitive nature seems to make people more impassioned when it comes to sports like these.

Women’s flat track roller derby, as it is now known, stems from theatrical, violent and entertainment based roots. In its earliest incarnation it was more reminiscent of speed skating than the high intensity sport known seen around the world (English, 2014). However, within ten years of the most recent reincarnation, 450 new leagues had been created. As one of the fastest growing sports for females in America, The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) was created to act as a governing body in order to maintain order and unity in this rapidly growing field (WFTDA, 2014). Like most sports the growth of this leisure sport, brought about a shift in athletic ability. As the complexity of the rules developed and bouts became more competitive,

The history of waterboarding goes back a lot further than most people even realize. The technique commonly referred to as "waterboarding" was first documented in the 14th century, but has been used on and off around the world since before the Spanish Inquisition1. The term waterboarding is actually a reference to two different techniques, with one of them being the more commonly used today. The first technique involves the pumping of water directly into a person's stomach. The other technique is the one most people think of when they hear the word waterboarding. This technique involves the placement of a cloth material over the mouth and a steady stream of water poured into the throat. Those steps lead to the person being interrogated experiencing a feeling as if they are drowning. This often leads to the unconsciousness of the interrogated. The person is awoken and the cycle is continued until

Doug E. Fresh, a popular beat-boxer in rap music today, has been quoted saying, “Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.” Although this is the original intention of hip-hop music, public opinion currently holds the opposite view. Since the 1970’s musical artists have changed the face of hip-hop and rap and worldwide, people – mostly teens—have been striving to emulate certain artists and their lyrics, which has created negative stereotypes for hip-hop music and also for those who choose to listen to it. With vulgar lyrics referencing drugs, alcohol, sex, and aggression, it’s no wonder these stereotypes exist. However, is music really the direct cause of how teens act,

The period of 1865 to 1950 was critical to the formation of “Modern” sport that is recognized today. In an article by Allen Guttmann titled From Ritual to Record: the nature of modern sport, Guttmann outlines seven characteristics that played a central role in the development of sports. These concepts were created as a sociological history of sports and took into place both American and European competitions. Guttmann’s notions of secularism, rationalization, bureaucracy and quantification, among others, all advanced the culture of sports; yet the most important of the stated characteristics is equality.

Having gone through both elementary and middle school, we have all run into peers who spent a lot of time and energy trying to act like the most popular athlete in any given time period. Kids often try to imitate controversial athletes to bring attention to themselves. Such behavior can bring popularity to a young person. A sad outcome of violence in adult sports is that youth sports end up mirroring adult sports. Young people are encouraged to be aggressive, and often those who are the stars of the team are those who know how to "stretch the rules". Often, young people who do play by the rules are relegated to the bench. As a result, youth athletic teams, even