| There's not really a specific origin of the | | | | skate wheels to a plank of wood and then they |
| skateboard, or even an inventor. No one really | | | | sold them in their Val surf shops.The skateboard |
| knows who came up with the skateboard. Some | | | | has really evolved since they were massed |
| believe the skateboard came around during the | | | | produced in the 1960's. Older skateboards were |
| 1930's and the 1940's when children had soapbox | | | | made in the shape of surfboard. They had no |
| races. A soapbox is almost exactly as it sounds, | | | | concave, and they were made of solid pieces of |
| people would take a wooden soap box and attach | | | | wood, plastic and even sometimes metal.The |
| it to a plank of would that had roller skates | | | | wheels were made of either a clay composite or |
| attached to it. And when the soap box broke off | | | | steel. The trucks on these skateboards were |
| they had the first primitive skateboard. Some | | | | very unsteady and were a single action design. |
| others also believe that surfers invented the | | | | These boards were made for riding and carving, |
| skateboard so they would have something to do | | | | unlike the skateboards we have today that are |
| when the surf was flat. People believe that the | | | | made of several different layers and have |
| surfers took a roller skate apart and nailed it to a | | | | concave. The skateboards we use today are |
| 2x4 piece of wood, so they could recreate the | | | | designed with something totally different in mind |
| feeling of riding the waves only on pavement. | | | | considering all the crazy stunts and tricks we do |
| In 1958 the first retail skateboards were | | | | with them. The first skateboarders wanted |
| marketed by Bill and Mark Richard, in Dana point, | | | | something to reenact the waves, and we took it |
| California. They created them by attaching roller | | | | to a new extreme level. |