The Skateboards of Past Periods for - FYI Parents

No doubt if you have kids you might be a littlehome-made or rudimentary made skateboards
considered about them getting hurt and whenwere dangerous compared to today's surfboards.
they say that they want a skateboard, it mightThe rubbery-plastic urethane wheels did not
concern you. Perhaps you might like to know a bitbecome available until the early 70s and in the late
about the history of skateboarding.70s skateboarders saw the first curved tails to
You see, there have been some reports that thehelp in pivoting tricks and maneuvers. The first
first skateboards were literally 2 X 4 Boardsskateboard parks also came into existence and
strapped to wheels back during the turn of thegave the kids a place to practice and try-out new
century of the 1900s in the US. Roller Skates,tricks.
which are a much older concept were used forIn the 80s skateboarders would use video
the wheels, which were removed and re-mountedcameras to record their trick maneuvers and
to the boards.many of the free-style moves got more
In the 50's there were actually people who putprogressive and difficult. By the 90s it was totally
clay wheels on boards and attempted to rideout of control and extreme skateboarding helped
them in places like California. Street or Sidewalkincrease the popularity. All of this fueled custom
Surfing it was called. Sometimes people wouldskateboard sales, shoe sales, sportswear and
take food crates and put wheels on them and goaccessories. The industry was growing up and
for it down paved roads and hills. It is hard togetting serious.
figure out who is the first person to put wheelsToday the modern skateboard is an engineering
on a straight board or plank.marvel with racing parts, exotic alloys, awesome
Who knows maybe Leonardo da Vinci inventedgraphics and specially designed components
such a thing and it just never made it into one ofworthy of the latest fighter planes. Of course this
his sketch books which was actually salvaged?is still only the beginning, as now there are
By the early 1960s skateboarding was becominghigh-tech skateboard video games and next
pretty popular and there were down hill racingcomes Virtual Reality skateboarding simulators.
contests like down hill skiing. Kids would practiceAll these new technologies will add safety and fun
and look forward to these things. There werefor kids and so you as a parent should support
free-style contests also and folks would do tricksyour local skateboard park, the sport of
and there were judges like ice skating. Of courseskateboarding and your kid's new favorite
their level of tricks were nothing compared topastime.
what kids can do today. Some of these