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Skateboarding Starts
Boards are created with wooden boards/boxes with roller blade wheels attached to the bottom. -
Skateboarding starts getting more and more popular
By 1960's a small number of surf shops start manufacturing boards -
Skateboarding makes magazine History
Skateboarding finally gets its first magazine "The Quarterly Skateboarder" -
Skateboarding gets its own wheels
Frank Nasworthy starts skateboarding wheel company called "Cadillac Wheels" , wheels made with polyurethane. -
Skateboarding begins to change
Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional freestyle manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels, spinning only on the back wheels , high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a, long jumping from one board to another. -
Skate shoes become a thing
One of the early leading trends associated with the sub-culture of skateboarding itself, was the sticky sole Slip-On Skate shoe, most popularized by Sean Pen. Which also started up the classic skate shoe brand Vans -
Skateboarding during the 1990s became dominated by street skateboarding
Skateparks hadn't been invented yet, so skateboarders would flock and skateboard in such urban places like The Escondido reservoir in San Diego, California. -
Different uses for skateboards
The United States Marine Corps tested the usefulness of commercial off-the-shelf skateboards during urban combat military exercises in the late 1990s in a program called Urban Warrior '99. Their special purpose was "for maneuvering inside buildings in order to detect tripwires and sniper fire". -
An image of its own
Skateboarding was, at first, tied to the culture of surfing. As skateboarding spread across the United States to places unfamiliar with surfing or surfing culture, it developed an image of its own. For example, the classic film short Video Days portrayed skateboarders as reckless rebels -
Still Alive
Skate boarding is still a very popular sport to this day, with makes it show in a very popular stunt show called X Games and is considered an extreme sport
