Hitting the concrete does not mean actually hitting or slamming into the concrete E F though you probably will at some point It means going out skateboarding Ever since it first appeared skateboarding has been hugely popular This book will show you why The Joy of Skating It takes time to learn how to skate It can take hours and Fi hours of practice to get a move right and you are guaranteed to have picked up a few scrapes and bruises by the time you know how to do it So why is skateboarding so popular The joy of skating is that you can learn at your own pace and in your own way No one pushes you there are no coaches shouting advice no parents looking on There is always a new trick to learn and the satisfaction of finally Ed landing it makes the struggle worthwhile An old school downhill longboarder hangs ten with all ten toes dangling over the nose of his
Skater World If you are a skater you can find somewhere to skate in almost any city in the world Europe and North America are real hotbeds of skating but from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo there are skaters ripping it up in skateparks on ramps and in the streets A timeless move as this diamond pattern crazy skater launches off the lip of a skatepark bowl R BB Top Three Skate Movies The Search For Animal China 1980s skate classic with a great cheesy storyline Birdhouse The Beginning features one of the best skater lineups ever including Tony Hawk Willy Santos and Shaun White Menikmati inspiring riding from a crew that constantly pushes the boundaries of what you can do on a
The first skaters were surfers One day in the 1950s somewhere on the coast O of California there were no waves O A bored surfer pulled his sister s roller G skates apart and nailed the wheels to an old wooden plank He had made the first skateboard This sequence shows a flatland ollie The skater jumps up while snapping the tail of the board down and sliding the front foot forward foot n The Sidewalk Surfers Other surfers quickly spotted that these new contraptions were a great way to practice their surfing skills Pretty soon kids everywhere were sidewalk surfing as the new activity was known The craze spread like wildfire and by the 1960s skateboarding had become a multi million dollar
The Ollie Takes Off The mid 1970s were an important time for skateboarding In California skaters had started riding drained swimming pools inventing a new school of skating in the process In Florida Alan Gelfand came up with a way of jumping his board without using his hands This became known as the ollie and it is the basis for many skating tricks Stacy Peralta comes from Venice Beach California At 15 he started skating for the legendary Zephyr skate team Four years later he was ranked as the world's best skater Peralta is now a television and movie director His best known movies are Dogtown and Z Boys 2001 which charts the skateboarding revolution of the 1970s and Riding Giants 2004 which is about big wave
