| Every sport has a history that you should be | | | | skateboards, with planks of wood and rollertrucks. |
| aware of before you decide to try it. Extreme | | | | In the sixties, skateboard history moved a step |
| sports are no exception - skateboard history is a | | | | further when skateboards were manufactured |
| field that has garnered quite a bit of interest. | | | | commercially on a fairly large scale. The |
| All the different skaters who have invented | | | | skateboards available then included the |
| moves, the different venues where these moves | | | | three-wheelers, as well. |
| have been invented, the skaters who gave | | | | It was only in 1963 that the first professional |
| everything up for the sport are all part of | | | | skateboards were manufactured, They were |
| skateboard history. | | | | manufactured by Larry Stevenson and his wife. |
| Skateboarding began with surfing. Surfing on the | | | | Skateboarding, though, was still influenced a lot by |
| waves was not enough for these stalwarts, and | | | | surfing. The techniques involved, the styles, even |
| so they decided to surf on the sidewalks, too, | | | | the fashion were all inspired by surfing. In fact, |
| and so, a new sport was born. | | | | these skateboards were names Makaha Phil |
| In 1920's, the first kind of skateboard to be sold | | | | Edwards, after a legendary surfer. The first |
| was a contraption that was meant to mimic | | | | skateboard competition was also held at this time. |
| cross-country skiing, more than anything else. This | | | | It was around 1965 that skateboarding began to |
| was the predecessor of the three-wheeled | | | | come off the sidewalks and become a bit more |
| scooter skate of the next decade. | | | | extreme, because skater started experimenting in |
| The next thing that marked skateboard history | | | | swimming pools. Skateboarding, like any other |
| was a four-wheeled skateboard, called the | | | | extreme sport, was seen as unsafe, but |
| skeeter skate. This had removable handles, and | | | | documentaries and movies were made to change |
| was fairly close to the skateboard we know of | | | | this concept. |
| now. | | | | By 1975, safety gear was developed, and this |
| The first time in skateboard history that | | | | made the world accept skateboarding a little more |
| rollerskate trucks were combined with a wooden | | | | easily. |
| plank, to make something similar to the | | | | It was in the seventies that skateboarding as we |
| skateboards of today, was in 1947. This was | | | | know today really took flight. This was an epoch |
| done by Peter Parken, a surfer in San Diego. | | | | marking decade in skateboard history. From then |
| It was in the 1950's that a form of skateboarding | | | | till now, there have been many champions who |
| as we know it today made an appearance, and | | | | have laid their bodies and souls on the line for |
| surfers embraced it wholeheartedly. Around this | | | | their passion - skateboards. |
| time, children started making their own | | | | |