History Of Skateboard Culture

Skating originally referred to as sidewalk surfing emerged in 1958 as southern californian surfers found a way to mimic surfing on land.

History of skateboard culture. The history of thrasher clothing the thrasher magazine. Crate scooters preceded skateboards having a wooden crate attached to the nose front of the board which formed rudimentary handlebars. Skateboarding first showed up in california in the 1950s when surfers got the idea of trying to surf the streets. The state s history from gold miners to tech entrepreneurs is a repeatedly told tale of.

The boxes turned into planks similar to the skateboard decks of today. In this ethnographic study skateboarding culture is described through observations of professional skateboarders in a segment of the dvd planes trains and skateboards. The idea was a land surfboard and many people loved this idea. What was it like when i started.

The first skateboards started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. Sidewalk surfing was the first name that was given to skateboards. From sidewalk surfing to the booms of the seventies and the eighties being banned to becoming one of the fastest growing sports. They discovered that by using a small wooden board with metal roller skate wheels they could make smooth turns on the sidewalk.

The findings suggested themes of acceptance energy and drive concern for safety self expression of style and progression. Boom bust and echo there were many ups and downs in skateboard history. For all the sport s ubiquity skateboarding s ground zero remains its origin point. The bible for skaters.

The credit goes to late jake phelps for building the thrasher brand. Well the origins of skateboarding can be linked all the way back to the 1950s. No one really knows who made the first board it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at the same time. The first commercial skateboards appeared in 1959 but crude homemade versions of skateboards often consisting of nothing more than old roller skate wheels attached to a board were first built after the turn of the 20th century.

Initially considered an anarchic form of self expression practiced by a small band of outcasts skateboarding exploded on the west coast of america in the late 70s and 80s coinciding with the emergence of us punk rock. According to merriam webster the term thrasher means a dominating defeat of an opponent.