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Skateboarding started in the 1950s. Surfers got the idea to surf on the streets. Nobody knows who made the first board. The old school skateboarders started with wooden boxes or decks, with roller skate slapped on.
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First was skateboarding mostly downhill slalom or freestyle, not grinding or big air jumps.
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In the 70s, starts skateboarding an evolutionary boost toward the sport that we see today.
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In the 80s, skateboarding began to influence clothing styles, music and culture.
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The first public skate park in NYC opened in the mid 90s. The skateboard park name is Diamondz!
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Since 2000 skateboarding has become more mainstream. More money has been put into skateboarding, there are more skate parks, better skateboards, and more skateboarding companies support the skaters. Today can you actually started in a Uptown Skate School in NYC, and get one on one personal skateboarding lessons. How cool is that?! People talks about skateboarding becoming an Olympic sport!
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It’s cool to having NYC’s skyline swirling around you, while you skate into traffic. Skating with yellow cabs, to the shouts of city workers, the tunes of street-artists singing, and the polices sirens as background while you pave your way through the streets. It’s a skater’s wildest dream. So TRY IT!
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Skateboarding in New York is so wild. The city that never sleeps, is something every skater should try at least once in his or her life. There is nothing like skating in NYC.
