Skateboarding has been around since the 1940's and actually was pretty popular in the 1960's, but it wasnt exactly the skateboards we are used to seeing today. They were more makeshift at first, crates and boxes with skate wheels. They were invented by surfers who needed something to do when the waves were bad.
Then in the 1970's Frank Nasworthy developed a polyurethane wheel for the skateboard which changed everything. The traction and overall performance was so much better that skateboarding gained back all its popularity and then some. Vert skating, at parks and in waterless pools was the big thing in skateboarding and new tricks were being developed. However improved safety techniques were not being invented and high accident rates forced a lot of the parks to close down and again for the activity to decline.
In the 1980's vert ramps were still popular but because of peoples lack of access to them, street skating became more popular and the board evolved to fit the needs of the street terrain.
Even though when many people think skateboarding they picture Tony Hawk on the vert ramp, street skating is actually more popular today.
There are 7 basic kinds of tricks we see today: *Freestyle tricks-which involve balancing on some part of the board beside all 4 wheels
*Aerials-floating in the air while using one of their hands to hold the board to their feet
*Flip tricks- all based on the Ollie manuever where the skater bending down and pushing the end of the board down then popping back up to give the illusion of the board defying gravity. Probably the most popular and well known tricks
*Boardsliders and Grinds- involve getting the board up on some type of ledge, rail, or coping and sliding or grinding along the board or trucks, respectively. When it is primarily the board which is contacting the edge, it's called a slide; when it's the truck, it is a grind
*Lip tricks- are done on the coping of a pool or skateboard ramp.
*Pressure tricks-that the board flips using pressure technique in areas of the tail/nose with the foot you pop with.
*Manual tricks-balancing the board while riding on either the two front or rear wheels, suspending the opposing wheels in the air.
Then in the 1970's Frank Nasworthy developed a polyurethane wheel for the skateboard which changed everything. The traction and overall performance was so much better that skateboarding gained back all its popularity and then some. Vert skating, at parks and in waterless pools was the big thing in skateboarding and new tricks were being developed. However improved safety techniques were not being invented and high accident rates forced a lot of the parks to close down and again for the activity to decline.
In the 1980's vert ramps were still popular but because of peoples lack of access to them, street skating became more popular and the board evolved to fit the needs of the street terrain.
Even though when many people think skateboarding they picture Tony Hawk on the vert ramp, street skating is actually more popular today.
There are 7 basic kinds of tricks we see today: *Freestyle tricks-which involve balancing on some part of the board beside all 4 wheels
*Aerials-floating in the air while using one of their hands to hold the board to their feet
*Flip tricks- all based on the Ollie manuever where the skater bending down and pushing the end of the board down then popping back up to give the illusion of the board defying gravity. Probably the most popular and well known tricks
*Boardsliders and Grinds- involve getting the board up on some type of ledge, rail, or coping and sliding or grinding along the board or trucks, respectively. When it is primarily the board which is contacting the edge, it's called a slide; when it's the truck, it is a grind
*Lip tricks- are done on the coping of a pool or skateboard ramp.
*Pressure tricks-that the board flips using pressure technique in areas of the tail/nose with the foot you pop with.
*Manual tricks-balancing the board while riding on either the two front or rear wheels, suspending the opposing wheels in the air.
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