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Skater Trevor
Trevor Colden, The youngest skateboarder in the Emerica team. Trevor was really brave when it came to huge stunts and tricks, he tre flipped a 7 stair that was really long! this wasn’t that crazy but in his video when he wanted to join Emerica skate team he kickflipped a 14 stair set! He barely got in the teams in the 2000’s..very talented skateboarder -
How skateboards changed
Skateboarding during the 1990s became dominated by skateboarding. Most boards are about 7 1⁄4 to 8 inches (180 to 200 mm) wide and 30 to 32 inches (760 to 810 mm) long. The wheels are made of an extremely hard rubber, with hardness approximately 99A. The wheel sizes are relatively small so that the boards are lighter, and the wheels' inertia is overcome quicker, thus making tricks more manageable. Board styles have changed dramatically since the 1970s but have remained mostly alike since the mid -
Rodney mullen
Rodney Mullen the first skateboarder who invented the trick we called today the “ollie” its the trick when you jump in mid air with your skateboard which led to many other tricks such ass grinds, flips , and grabs -
Vert Skating
This period was fueled by skateboard companies that were run by skateboarders. The focus was initially on vert ramp skateboarding -
Activision and bird house sponserships
Tony Hawk’s popularity led him to being sponsored by Activision video game company and he helped them release a video game in many video game consoles and also got sponsored by a skateboard company called birdhouse back in the 1990s -
Tony Hawk 900
Here we have Tony hawk who was well known for the trick called the ‘900’, he was the first skateboarder to ever land this trick its when you do a skateboard jump rotating 900 degrees then landing it, was also well known for winning many 1st place X Games trophies.. -
Jimmy Carlin
(Another favorite skater of mine) This guy was almost everyone’s favorite hero in skateboarding since his good sense of humor and jokes were funny and had a nice personality, he was really good at every trick and what made him stand out was his trick style, every trick he did had lots of style in to it and he is still riding for a skateboard company called “mystery” to this day -
Pro Skateboarder Lizard King
This is a famous skater (one of my favorite), they call him Lizard King..wierd name huh? He was working for a skateboard team called “Deathwish” everyone knew him because he had the hieght of atleast 3.6ft trick called kickflip -
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No clue to the creator of the skateboard
Still to this day no one knows exactly who created the first skateboard, in the past many claimed that they were the inventors of the first skateboard but no one really knew who it was -
Best skateboarder today
the best skateboarder today, his name is nyjah huston and has won the X Games the past 3 years
