Skateboarding Essay

Skateboarding is a very popular sport. The sport originated in the late 1940’s to 1950’s by surfers because the water was to cold to surf in, and the waves were flat, so the surfers put wheels on a board and called it sidewalk surfing. They took pieces of wood and attached old roller skate wheels to the bottom of them. Though then it was so that surfers could still have fun when water was cold it has now turned into one of the most popular extreme action sports around. During the 70s Frank Nasworthy

sophomore and have to do the “Personal Project.” For my project, I started getting into skateboarding and taught myself, with help from friends, multiple tricks. I remember when I was in third grade, I had a skateboard and would always skate with my friend Keiffer. He could do so many cool tricks, but I couldn’t even do an ollie. It got me mad because no matter how hard I tried, I could not do it, so I quit. Skateboarding has always been a hobby that I wanted to get into, but never really did. I saw this

The Del Mar Nationals In 1975 Bahnes skateboards the leading manufacture for boards and wheels resurrected a competition by assembling the first major skateboarding since the mid 1960's, The Del Mar Nationals. The competitive setup was based on a classic 60's model a plywood ramp with a top coat of urethane was built for slalom racing and a small wooden platform was erected for free style. The z-boys had no idea what to do when they showed up. “it was like a hockey team going figure skating contest”

Imagine gliding down a city street in Boise, passing all the cars and the people and other boarders. Riding a longboard for transportation is fast, convenient, and fun. Longboards are used for both transportation and sport. The career I’ve chosen is working at a longboard shop, I’d be good at this career and happy working at it because I could help other skaters buy and fix boards. I love longboarding and I know how to tune up longboards. I love they way they are built and the way they work. I would

manufacturing companies started popping up to specifically create decks and hold competitions (Evolution). Eventually, skateboarding made its way towards television. In 1965, the very first television transmission about skateboarding was in Anaheim, a city in California (Pereira). In 1975, a slalom and freestyle contest were held at the ocean festival. Even though skateboarding wasn’t that advanced with tricks, they did have simple tricks because skateboarders knew how to go up and down ramps (Care)

The central idea of “The first ice skates helped people travel in the winter” by Smithsonian.com, adapted by Newsela staff, is to show how different ice skates are now and what skates from long ago were used for and to explain how skates have change over time. For example in the first paragraph of “Winter Transportation” it says, “In 15th-century Netherlands, the most common way to travel in cold months was by skates. The country's many canals became frozen highways for thousands to travel by in

Dropping In I always loved riding scooters at the Muncie Skate Park. I was horrified of the idea of one particular ramp. It was a quarter-pipe that was vertical more than half-way down the ramp. It was also fourteen feet high when you were looking down from the top of it. People call going down a ramp “dropping in.” I wanted more than anything to be able to drop in on that ramp. The first thing I did to prepare was to start dropping in on some of the other ramps in the skate park. I started

The Skateboard Park – Conquering the Half Pipe – 2 I slung my backpack over my shoulder, grabbed my skateboard and helmet, and headed to the park. The weather was perfect and I knew this would be a great day to ride my skateboard. The skateboard park was only a few blocks from my house, surrounded by a safety fence. A heavy metal gate was adorned with a larger-than-life cutout figure of a lone skateboarder, flying 6 inches above his board. Inside the gate, the amazing concrete street park was equipped

Board fishing is a sport with a long and varied history. It is likely to have originated on the beaches of Southern California in the 60's, during the rise of surfing as a water sport. The surfers who were waiting for the next set of waves started taking notice of numerous fish swimming just under their boards; soon enough, a rod and a couple of lures were standard pieces of equipment for every surfer with a penchant for fishing. The main problem was that the surfing boards, while adequately long

that is now known as skateboarding. Wanting to show this evolution, Stacy Peralta directed, Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary that captures the history and the iconic moments of skateboarding. The trend of skateboarding was rapidly losing interest in the 70’s until a group of rebellious surfers, commonly known as the Z-Boys, decided to transfer their unique lifestyle and individuality into the dying world of skateboarding. The Z-Boys liberated the declining sport of skateboarding by pushing the boundaries