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Nice weather means that, yes, it’s skateboard time
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Written by Isaac Sellner for The Eagle
Skateboarding has been around for a long time but did not get popular until the 1960’s. Before then skateboards were made out of a plank of wood with rollerblade wheels. In the early 60’s, skateboards started to change. They started to make wheels out of clay, they later upgraded to silicone wheels.
In the 60’s the first pro skateboarders came to be. The most popular were Tony Alva, Stacey Peralta, and Jay Adams. Them including many others rode for Zephyr surf and skate shop until they got offers from big companies and they split. They were called the “Z-Boys”. During this time, tricks were all based off of surfing moves, that is why it was called street surfing. They did not use tricks such as kick flips, tre flips and rodeos. They also started skating in old pools that no longer had water in them.
Skateboarding has changed greatly since the 60’s, now a day, there are different types of skating. There is street skating where you skate on street obstacles such as stairs, benches and hand rails. There is also vert skating where you skate on obstacles such as half pipes, ramps, and other man made obstacles.
The tricks have also changed greatly, there are now more advanced tricks that involve jumping and flipping and such. There are also way more pros now a day then there used to be, a few are P-Rod, Rob Dyrdek, Bam Margera, and Terry Kennedy. Another major contributor to skateboarding is the technology that goes into the making of skateboards. They now have the technology the make the deck much stronger and lighter. They also make the trucks out of titanium and that is much lighter than they used to be. This allows skateboards to get much higher and longer air time. The shape of a board is also different and it allows more pop.
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