History Of Skateboarding

By Alejandroxxiv

  • Early 1950s Skateboarding Begins!

    At some point in the 1950's, skateboarding is born in California. No one knows the exact year though many claim they started it . The only knowledge of the beginnig of skateboarding has its roots in the culture of surfing.

  • The Trend Years

    The art of skating was a sudden hit, for it became popular almost from night to day. The companies were ferociously competing between each other to keep up with the market demand.

  • The Peak Of the Point

    . Skateboarding had become such a popular sport that in 1963, the first skateboarding contest ever to happen took place in Hermosa Beach, CA..

  • Persausive Advertising to Stop Skating

    Unluckily soon after an disaster occurred in the skateboarding history, in 1965 a group of so-called safety experts said skateboarding to be an unsafe sport.

  • 1966

    Skating Has liiterally gone down hill , everyone was scared of their children getting hurt , and the older people that skated where tired of skating on metal wheels .

  • Vans 'Off The Wall'

    Vans shoes get their start in the surf and skateboard scene Their stores even offer skaters the ability to choose from a selection of materials and colors to create their own custom shoes. For many years, Vans shoes are considered "the" skateboard shoe

  • The Perfect Wheel

    Frank Nasworthy creates a skateboard wheel design using urethane after seeing the material being used on rollerskates by the Roller Sports Company. He begins producing the first urethane wheels made exclusively for skateboarding.

  • The Union Of Skating

    James O'Mahoneylater creates the World Skateboard Association (WSA) to bring the world's skaters together.

  • Alan Gelfand

    1977 California pro Stacy Peralta visited the Solid Surf Skate Park in Fort Lauderdale where he met Gelfand and observed with some disbelief his no-handed maneuver. By 1978 the Ollie Air was born, known today simply as the ollie.

  • First SkateBoarding Records Set

    Signal Hill Downhill Contest - John Hutson sets the standing speed record at 53.45 MPH for the Guinness Book of Records. Roger Williams sets the skate car speed record at 59.92 MPH

  • 1980s Trend Still Going

    Skaters continue to skate, but in a more underground way. Small privately owned skateboard companies pop up, owned by skaters. Skateboarding evolves into an even more personal style of expression