Skateboarding

Skateboarding is a combination of tricks on a small roller skate-like board called a skateboard. This sport started sometime in the early 50's. toc =History=

Skateboarding was created in the early 1950's by surfers so they could surf the concrete streets. No one knows who invented it, but many people have claimed to invent it. The first skateboard was a wooden box connected to two 2x4's on roller-skate wheels. This eventually led to wood planks and then to thin layers of pressed maple wood, similar to today. In the early 1960's skateboarding companies started to hold skateboarding competitions. It was either downhill slaloms or freestyle competitions. These tricks were way different than skateboarding today. This was called freestyle which was just like dancing on the skateboard. Then in 1972, Frank Nasworthy invented the use of Urethane in skateboard wheels, which is what we use today. His company was Cadillac wheels. In 1975 the Zephyr team took skateboarding to the next level. At a skate competition in Del Mar, California, they executed like no team had ever skated before. Then, in 1978, a man named Allen Gefland nicknamed "Ollie", invented a trick that changed the course of skateboarding completely. This trick is nothing but the Ollie. The Ollie is the act of kicking the skateboard off the ground. Gefland was later inducted into the skateboard hall of fame. Almost all skateboard tricks evolved around the Ollie. Like the Kick-flip, the Heel-flip, Laser Flip, and 360 Flip. Through the 80's skateboarding started to drop because skate parks started to shut down because they couldn't pay for it. Then, in the 90's people started to use real-life terrain for skateboarding and it grew dramatically. Through the 2000's, there have been more competitions like the X Games, and Street League. There have been new and improving skateboarders. Like Rob Dyrdek and Ryan Sheckler. New skateboarding brands like DC and DVS. Overall, skateboarding has evolved a lot.

=Rules=

Skateboarding really doesn't have any rules. It has a lot of tricks and ramps though.

Tricks
Air= any time the board is in the air. Ollie= Kicking the skateboard into midair. Manual= Wheeling on the skateboard. Kick-flip/Heel-flip= Kicking the skateboard while in midair and it makes a 360 spiral. Nollie=Ollieing with the front of the skateboard. Grind= Riding on the skateboard on a rail, curb, etc. Boardslide= grinding sideways Powerslide= Sliding on the board while on the ground Shove-it= doing a 180 or 360 spin on the board. Backside nosegrind= grinding on the curved part of the board Stall= having the deck on the top of a quarterpipe Invert= going off a quarterpipe and going to another facing the opposite way

Ramps
Quarterpipe= a vertical ramp that makes a quarter of a circle. Kicker= a ramp used to get air. Half pipe= two quarter pipes facing eachother Spine= two quarter pipes back-to-back

Board Guide
Deck= the board itself Truck= the axle for the wheels Grip tape= the sandpaper on the top of the board. Wheels= Urethane wheels

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