Sabtu, 30 Juli 2011

10 Skatepark BEST IN THE WORLD

10 Skatepark BEST IN THE WORLD

1.SKATELAB, ATLANTIC BEACH FLORIDA


2.BLACK PEARL SKATE PARK, CAYMAN ISLANDS






3.LOUISVILLE EXTREME PARK








4.SMP SKATEPARK, SHANGHAI CHINA






5.MARSEILLE SKATEPARK, FRANCE







6.STOKE PLAZA, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND




7.VANS SKATEPARK, CALIFORNIA





8.KONA SKATE PARK, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA





9.AMAZING SQUARE SKATE PARK, JAPAN




10.LAKE CUNNINGHAM REGIONAL SKATE PARK, CALIFORNIA





Jumat, 29 Juli 2011

10 world's best skaters

10 world's best skaters
Skateboarding is a board that has four wheels and
used for gliding activity. This board has the power to be stimulated by encouraging use of one leg while the other leg is above board. The user can also stand on it while the board is sliding down a steep derivatives and uses gravity as the boosters. The following are 10 of the top skateboarders in the world.

10.mike vallely

9.danny way

8.daewon song

7.chris haslam

6.paul rodriguez

5.chris cole

4.bam margera

3.tony hawk

2.ryan sheckler

1.rodney mullen

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)

Kamis, 28 Juli 2011

On Go Skateboarding Day

On Go Skateboarding Day

Date: June 21 each year.

What's It All About: On June 21, skateboarders around the world will celebrate the pure joy, creativity, and passion of one of the most technical events affecting the world by blowing all the other obligations to go skateboarding. OK, skateboarders mostly doing this every day of their lives, but this is only one reason explode your television / computer / video games and go skateboarding! Skateboarders everywhere will show their love and support for skateboarding by holding fundraising events funds, contests, protests and demos. They would glide across the city, gathered in skateparks, stream into the local skate shop and some of them will even revel in the solitary act of skateboarding alone in their favorite places, all the skateboard community to unite in the grind heard around the world.

History: Go Skateboarding Day, held on June 21 each year, is the official holiday of skateboarding. holiday began June 21, 2003 as an excuse for skateboarders to make a skateboard their top priorities. Go Skateboarding Day began with a few simple skate sessions and bar-b-doubt was held in the capital's unofficial skateboarding, southern California.

Founded by the International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC), Go Skateboarding Day gives skateboarders spirit and those who simply inspired by skateboarding, the opportunity to drop everything and ride skateboards. Go Skateboarding Day is a decentralized cooperative events that occur throughout the world. Skateboard retailers, manufacturers, skateparks, distributors, organizations and individuals of all colors, beliefs, and attitudes hold skateboarding events to celebrate the holidays.
Skateboarders around the world create their own events and traditions to celebrate skateboarding.

Go Skateboarding Day originated as a day for skateboarders to have fun, to raise awareness about the issues we face, to show the world what skateboarding is really all, to reclaim our culture, and to define skateboarding as a celebration, a rebel creative freedom that continues. In the years since the first celebration, the holiday continues to grow, but the mission remains the same: Have fun, go skateboarding!

ONE DAY ONLY FULLY Skateboarding!

Jumat, 24 Juni 2011

4 skateboarding virtual games

1. Sean McNulty Skateboarding for Android

I just posted my game, Sean McNulty Skateboarding, to the Android Market. It is the first version that many people will be playing, so I am calling this a beta. It allows you to play the first two levels in a 2-minute run, and it even saves your top 10 high scores for each level. The full game will have a freeskate mode and way more levels to play, so look for it soon!

Feel free to leave a comment if you have any suggestions for the game.
http://mmkprogramming.blogspot.com/
2. Finger Board for Android
Touch, grind, ollie, flip, & dodge objects in this new 2D skateboard scroller!

Touch, grind, ollie, flip, and dodge objects in this new 2D finger board skateboard scroller!

New tricks and grinds added in version 1.5!

App Screenshots

3. Skatedroid AIR
Skate with the skatedroid as you jump from rail to rail! How far can you get?
Watch out for holes in the road and scary fire hydrants!

Requires Android 2.2, Adobe AIR, 80x800 screen resolution.
May crash during startup on certan devices.
Try to kill unnecessary apps running in the background before starting the game.

Content rating: Everyone

Latest version: 1.0.3 Stability fix 2 (for Android version 2.2 and higher)
Screenshot of Skatedroid AIR Screenshot of Skatedroid AIR
http://www.appbrain.com/app/skatedroid-air/air.no.agens.skatedroidair
4. Touch Grind

Just like in real skateboarding or fingerboarding, Touchgrind is a game of skill that takes 10 minutes to understand but weeks of lectures, boring meetings and family dinners to master. Learn the tricks and impress your buddies.

The innovative finger controls together with true physics simulation let you pull off tricks like ollies, shuvits, kickflips, heelflips, impossibles, 5-0, 50-50, crooks, smithgrinds, boardslides, tailslides, darkslides etc in endless combinations.

Built on experience from the massive hits Labyrinth and iPint, Illusion Labs now brings you this killer game that will keep you boarding for hours and hours.


App Store Touchgrind