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    Skateboarding Culture

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    The culture of skateboarding is constantly evolving along with its design, therefore, often times novice skateboarders have a difficult time figuring out the best skateboard parts in order to construct a skate complete that will provide safety and that will accommodate their style. Building a skateboard complete has multiple components and each component contain branches of factors that influence the way a skateboard performs with its rider. It is important that a beginner skateboarder chooses the

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    Back then, people used to call skateboarding sidewalk surfing. The wheels used to be made out of clay and the skateboards looked almost like penny boards. In the 50’s, Surfers in California get the bright idea to surf concrete and invent Skateboarding. The origin of the first skateboard has never been proven as it seems to have been the spontaneous invention of multiple people. Wooden boards

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    Legacy So I was chilling with my friends in the park, skateboarding they talked about the “Broadway Bomb” and some other stuff. I asked them what the Broadway Bomb was, they told me that it was a 7.9-mile race along Broadway in Manhattan. Although I’ve met Skateboarding Celebrities like Tony Hawk and Eric Koston, I’ve never had a chance to go skateboarding with them. But most of the Celebrity Skateboarders don’t even practice their Skateboarding Skills. After seeing Tony Hawk’s victory in 1999 in the

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    The History of skateboarding 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. Skateboarding was probably born sometime in

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    How to Surf Essay

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    Some would say it's like snowboarding, whereas others would say it's like skateboarding. I, on the other hand, believe surfing is unlike any other sport. Besides it being loads of fun and freeing your mind, it is also a great workout. Problem is, though, many people wonder how to get started and learn what to do. That's where I come in. First, you need to know the safety precautions. You absolutely have to know how to swim and be able to swim well. If this is a problem for you, you can easily contact

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    The VANS is an American shoe manufacturer, based in California, is first founded in the year of 1966 by Paul Van Doren together with his brother James and two other partners, targeting active individuals primarily in surfing and skateboarding. Skateboarding during 1960’s – 1970’s was considered as a disesteemed sports, was not so respectable, among the dominant culture in the society as it was aligned with the anti-establishment, anti-Vietnam, and anti-war sentiment. 1.1 VANS’ customers’ key characteristics

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    Longboarding

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    Longboarding is an offshoot of street skating, but, like all board sports, its roots lie in surfing. Developed as a single sport on the west coast in the 1950s, by the 1990s, Longboards and Skateboards branched off into their respective disciplines. With the right setup, a longboard can give the feeling of surfing on hard smooth surfaces. There are a variety of riding styles: downhill, cruising and carving, slalom, dancing, freeriding, vert and sliding.[citation needed] A longboard generally can

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    think about a photograph. For this analysis I 'm going to describe my physical ad, explain what is the meaning, and point out what the photographer did to create this meaning. I 'm using a Vans Off The Wall ad which was put in the Thrasher monthly skateboarding magazine in 2007. In the photograph they have the professional skateboarder, co-owner of Flip Skateboards, and owner of the Civil ware Service Corporation Geoff Rowley. Rowley is riding his skateboard down this long rail of a huge set of stairs

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    marketing intent is to fill a void in the local community, as of this date there are no indoor skate facilities with in a 25 mile radius of the anticipated location. There are also very minimal recreation centers for the youth in this area. As of 2002 Skateboarding has a annual revenue of $4.8 billion(TransWorld 2001) b) New Markets- by the end of the fifth year it is anticipated that there will be a much greater need for recreation facilities for our community and the youth here, the plan will be to open

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    There are about two thousand skate parks in the whole United States, and in contrast to this there are approximately thirteen-million skateboarders in the U.S alone. These are really shocking numbers that the average everyday person wouldn’t know, or care about. But when one of the thirteen million skaters who don’t have a place to skate come and skates in front of their store, suddenly they care. In Nacogdoches this is a real problem, and I have personally observed skaters getting told to leave

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