Jumat, 29 Juli 2011

Skateboard History


Skateboard History

LIKE skateboard? For sports fans this sled, definitely one tool that is very enjoyable.But, you know how to skate there? Let us refer to its history!

First Instance was born mid-1940-1950's, when surfers from California Americans want to find something to drive when sea water is choppy with their sled. The first board was made with a board that was given tire of roller skates.

Then, in the 1970s, Frank Nasworthty make a tire or a skateboard with a polyurethane material used to be called cadillac. He hopes that fat people can buy the skate boards and memakainya.Dengan the launch of the new tire's 1970 work, making the rapidly growing popularity of skateboarding again.

Many companies started to manufacture trucks (wheel axle) with a special design for the skater. Manufacturers began experimenting with exotic ingredients combine with metal, such as fiberglass and aluminum.

The skateboarders receive benefits from their boards are repaired and they began to create new tricks. Some Skater, especially Ty Page, Bruce Logan, Bobby Piercy, Kevin Reed, and Z-Boys (so named because a local shop they named zephy shop) they started sliding on the vertical walls of swimming pools that are left blank in the 1976 California drought.

This is the origin of the vert trend in skateboarding world. Frank Nasworthy make a tire or a skateboard with a polyurethane material used to be called the Cadillac to the end that fat people can buy a skate board and put it on.

In the 1980s, the period is triggered by a skateboard company run by skateboarders.The focus initially is on track to hit skateboarding vert. The discovery of no-hands aerial (ollie) by Alan Gelfand in Florida in 1976 and grabbed aerial by George Orton and Tony Alva in California, making the trick is done the skater to appear at the vertical ramp.

Since most people can not build vert ramps or did not have access to the ramp, playing in the streets became popular. Rodney Mullen freestyle street like creating a lot of basic tricks, including modern basic tricks such as kickflip impossible and

The influence freestyle street skating is still a trend during the mid-80s, but street skating was still performed on wide vert boards with short nose. skateboard in this year's growing rapidly but is hampered by accommodation street skating.

1990s until now generated now dominated by street skating skateboarding. with the width of the board 7 ¼ to 8 inches long and 30 to 32 inches. Wheel sizes are relatively small so that the board look much brighter, and so the wheels spin faster, thus making tricks more readily available.

Contemporary forms derived from the freestyle boards skateboard 1980s to the shape and relatively narrow width is very symmetrical.This shape has become a standard mid-90s. (From various sources)

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