Hello, today is August 16th and today I want to share my knowledge  on the history of skateboarding. It all started back in the 50s and 60s in California, and was called “sidewalk surfing”. Originally, they made their skateboards out of scrap or plywood, and would attach roller blade wheels to the bottom of the wood they chose to use. The whole reason it started was because of surfers. Say the waves were flat that day, and they wanted to still get that thrill, what were they going to do? Well, they just rode their boards. It stayed the same way in the 70s, except, the urethane wheel was invented, and it revolutionized the sport. In this decade too, the skaters also started skating in pools, and the creation of concrete skateparks started happening as well.  The 80s also proved to help advance skateboarding, in which they style of skating switched from ramps to street, with such pros as Mike Vallely and Rodney Mullen.  The 90s were also a big turning point in skateboarding, in which the X games were invented and skateboarding popularity skyrocketed. Tricks were invented over the years, but the most important of all time was the flat-ground ollie. It put down the tracks for everything today, and without it, tricks today would be impossible. Take note, I left out a lot of specific names and dates in this brief history of the sport, but I felt people out there should be educated about the history of skateboarding, and without the surfers, there would be no skating, so thank you’re local surfers, if you have them, and spread your current knoledge with your friends and loved ones.

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