Skateboard History

Skateboarding was first discovered in mid 1950, along with the development in the area of California surf era, the United States. First appeared, skateboarding is still created by human hands and made of wood combine with tire roller skates and connected by trucks from the roller skates is also very thick and heavy. At that time people were also not familiar with the name 'skateboard', but 'Sidewalk surfing'. Period-era begins when Marty McFly used it in a movie called "Back To The Future", Marty here to use the media skateboard as transportation equipment.

Then, in the 1970s, Frank Nasworthty make tires skateboard with polyurethane material or used to be called Cadillac. He's hoping for a fat person can buy a skate board and wear it. With the launch of the new tires ditahun the 1970s, making the popularity of skateboarding is growing rapidly again.

Many companies started to manufacture trucks (wheel axle) with a special design for the skater. Manufacturers began experimenting with exotic ingredients combine with metal, such as fiberglass and aluminum.

The skateboarders receive benefits from their boards repaired and they began creating new tricks. Some Skater, especially Ty Page, Bruce Logan, Bobby Piercy, Kevin Reed, and Z-Boys (named so because their local store called zephy shop), they started sliding on the vertical walls of empty swimming pool that is left in the 1976 California drought.
The origin of the trend in the world Vert skateboarding. Frank Nasworthy make tires skateboard with polyurethane material or used to be called Cadillac with the aim that fat people can buy and wear a skate board.
In the 1980s, during this period triggered by a skateboard company run by skateboarders. The focus initially is on track to hit Vert skateboarding. The discovery of no-hands aerial (Ollie) by Alan Gelfand in Florida in 1976 and was grabbed aerial by George Orton and Tony Alva in California, making this trick is the skater to appear at the vertical ramp.
Since most people can not build a Vert ramp or do not have access to the ramp, playing in the streets became popular. Rodney Mullen freestyle street like creating a lot of basic tricks, including modern basic tricks such as kickflip impossible and Effect of freestyle street skating is still a trend during the mid-80s, but street skating was still performed in a wide Vert board with a short nose. skateboard in this year will grow rapidly but are constrained by accommodation of street skating.

1990s until now generated now dominated by street skating skateboarding. with wide board 7 ¼ to 8 inches long and 30 to 32 inches. Wheel size is relatively small for the board appear brighter, and for the wheels spin faster, thus making tricks more easily obtained.
Contemporary form obtained from the freestyle boards skateboard 1980s with the shape and relatively narrow width is very symmetrical. This shape has become a standard mid-90s.
(From various sources).