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On August 25, 2004, Brad Edwards and Aaron Murray set the Guinness World Record for highest wallride on a skateboard. Skating at the Juice Magazine - USSA WSA - The Board Gallery - Hollywood Skate Jam taking place in Hollywood, California , Edwards and Murray both reached a height of 7 feet 6inches on the wall.
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.
The lipslide is considered to be more complex than a boardslide, due to the rotation over the obstacle at the beginning into the trick and the re-entry or dismount. Note that in this case a frontside lipslide involves facing forwards while a backside lipslide involves facing backwards. Also known as a Disaster slide.
Long Distance Pumping (LDP), is the name given to Skateboard pumping for any sustained distance (Slalom by contrast is through cones and usually a short distance, maybe 100 cones 6-12ft separation). LDP riders have been breaking world distance records for 24-hour skating, using a combination of pushing and pumping.
He holds the record for being the youngest person to compete at the X Games at the age of 10 years and 7 months. In 2020, he was officially awarded two Guinness World Records for being the Youngest X Games Athlete and for the first 1080 on a vert ramp, [ 4 ] followed by a third in 2021 for being the youngest male X-Games gold medalist.
Unity Surfskate in Hermosa Beach made the first skateboard push by sponsoring Page and putting out a popular, wooden kick-tail skateboard called the Ty Stix. [5] The second generation Makaha team of Page, Bruce Logan, Rusty Henderson, Mike Purpus, and Torger Johnson was put together to promote the invention that changed skateboarding forever ...
Accused sex trafficker Alon Alexander will remain behind bars while facing gang rape and other charges, after a judge deemed the once high flying real estate magnate a flight risk.
A snakeboard is self-propelled, and there is no need to touch a foot on the ground. Moreover, it is considerably easier to generate and maintain momentum than on a skateboard. To perform a trick, one's feet must be strapped to the board, which makes it harder to "bail out" of a trick or dismount.