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A skateboard is a type of sports equipment used for skateboarding. It is usually made of a specially designed 7–8-ply maple plywood deck and has polyurethane wheels attached to the underside by a pair of skateboarding trucks.
Skateboarding made its Olympic debut in 2020 and was included in the 2024 games. [5] Since the 1970s, skateparks have been constructed specifically for use by skateboarders, freestyle BMXers, aggressive skaters, and more recently, scooters. [6]
Creative Urethane made the wheels to his specifications and Nasworthy took his company to California in 1972. Due to the infancy of skateboarding at this time, Nasworthy sold his wheels directly to surf shops along the coast of California, and placed some tentative advertisements featuring a young Gregg Weaver in surfing magazines. News of the ...
Most boards measure 84 to 150 centimeters (33 to 59 in) in length while widths vary from 22.8 to 25.4 cm (9.0 to 10.0 in). There are several longboard shapes, such as pintails, swallowtails, flat-nose riders, drop-through decks, drop decks and boards with the same shape as a conventional skateboard.
A fingerboard is a scaled-down replica of a skateboard that a person "rides" with their fingers, rather than their feet. A fingerboard is typically 100 millimeters (3.9 in) long with width ranging from 26 to 55 mm (1.0 to 2.2 in), with graphics, trucks and plastic or ball-bearing wheels, like a skateboard. [1]
A Snakeboard, also known as a Streetboard is a board that was invented in South Africa in 1989 [1] by James Fisher, [2] Simon King [2] and Oliver Macleod Smith. [2] The concept was to fuse the original skateboard with elements of snowboarding and surfing to create a fun riding experience.
Skateboarding (1950) Uses a board mounted on wheels, and often ridden on a half-pipe, in urban settings, or emptied specially built swimming pools. Longboarding (1970s) Similar to freeboarding but with long skateboards that come in different shapes and sizes, longboarding is mostly a racing sport but there are many other styles as well ...
Makaha Skateboards was a sponsor of the competition. [7] In 1987, an all wooden indoor skate park, called CT Bike, opened in Bristol, Connecticut . [ 8 ] CT Bike is where Tony Hawk made his debut when he was a young boy on his first East Coast tour. [ 8 ]