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A skateboard is a type of sports equipment used for skateboarding. It is usually made of a specially designed 7–8-ply maple plywood deck and has polyurethane wheels attached to the underside by a pair of skateboarding trucks.
Skateboard kicktail Richard Lawrence "Larry" Stevenson (December 22, 1930 – March 25, 2012) was the inventor of the kicktail , the bent-upwards end of a skateboard , which made most of today's skateboarding tricks possible and essentially revolutionized the sport.
Some skateboards during that time were manufactured with company logo's or stickers across the top of the deck of the skateboard, as griptape was not initially used for construction. But as skateboarding progressed and evolved, and as artists began to design and add influence to the artwork of skateboards, designs and themes began to change. [104]
Skate Mental Thunder Spitfire HUF Former Five Points Skateshop Mark Appleyard [7] Element Thunder Bones Globe Volcom CCS Lizzie Armanto [8] Birdhouse Independent Bones Vans Bro Style 187, Action Cam, GShock, Mahfia Ray Barbee [3] Element Independent Vans Wesc Pedro Barros: Pocket Pistols Independent Alta Vans Volcom
The Z-boys began as a surf team for the Zephyr surfboard shop at Santa Monica. Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, and Craig Stecyk opened the shop, titled Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Production Team, in 1973, and they soon begin recruiting young locals to represent them in surfing competitions. 14 year old Nathan Pratt was the first member of the team; he originally had worked in the shop as an ...
1st in 1996–2000, 2002, 2012 World Cup; 1st in 1997–2002 X Games: vert doubles (with Tony Hawk); 3rd in 2009 X Games 15 Vert Competition 2nd in 2009 X Games 15 Park Andy has been involved in promoting skateboarding and its growth, progression and exposure since as far back as his days as an instructor at the YMCA in Peabody MA (1989) right near his hometown of North Andover.
So in front of 1,500 kids I did my first skateboard demonstration—it was just a kick turn, but skateboarding was new then and nobody else knew many tricks then anyway. While on the Cooley Team, and standing on a Bun Buster, McGee set the world record for the fastest woman on a skateboard at 47 miles per hour (76 km/h) during Dick Clark's ...
Long appears in Emerica's This is Skateboarding, [3] Kids in Emerica, [4] [5] [6] and Stay Gold [7] videos. Long appears in the Wavves music video "Post Acid" as a skateboarding alien—the video was directed by skateboard journalist Patrick O'Dell. [8]