Download or read book A Secret History of the Ollie written by Craig B. Snyder and published by Pioneers of Skateboarding. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every culture has a creation myth, and skateboarding is no different. The Ollie forged a new identity for skateboarding after its invention in the 1970s, and it lies at the root of nearly every significant move in street skating today. This groundbreaking no-handed aerial has also affected the evolution of surfing and snowboarding, and has left a permanent impression upon popular culture and language. This, then, is the story of the Ollie, the history and technology that set the stage for its creation, the pioneers who made it happen, and the skaters who used it to start a revolution.
Download or read book Skateboarding written by Steve Badillo and published by Tracks Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty-four skateboarding tricks, including old school, spine, and new school stunts, and includes an interview with skateboarder and coach Steve Badillo.
Download or read book I Can Skateboard written by Edana Eckart and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and simple text show the steps involved in learning to skateboard.
Download or read book Skateboarding and Religion written by Paul O'Connor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.
Download or read book The A to Z of Skateboarding written by Tony Hawks and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty years, Tony Hawks has been mistaken for Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder. Even though it is abundantly clear on his website that he is an English comedian and author, people still write to him asking the best way to do a kickflip or land a melon. One mischievous day he started writing back in a pompous tone, goading his correspondents for their spelling mistakes and poor grammar, while offering bogus or downright silly advice on how to improve their skateboarding. Featuring entries on parents' pain, disappointment, underachievers, Quorn and the Vatican, this is his A to Z guide to the world of skateboarding, as seen through the eyes of someone who knows absolutely nothing about it.
Download or read book The Mutt written by Rodney Mullen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-07-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age six, Rodney Mullen was the family misfit who had to wear braces to straighten out his pigeon-toed feet. But by age fourteen, he was a world-champion skateboarder -- and for the next decade lost only one contest. Now, for the first time, Rodney tells the incredible story of his ascent to fame as the number one nerd in a sport where anarchy is often encouraged. Rodney learned to skate by himself on the family farm, his only company the wandering cows. As a teenager he traveled the world for demonstrations, invented the flatground ollie -- a trick that laid the foundation for modern street skating -- and in ten years garnered thirty-five world skating titles. While acing skateboard contests Rodney also earned straight A's in school, but his father forced him to abandon his fame and the fortune he could make from the sport he loved. Rodney was unable to stop for very long though, even after freestyle skating went out of fashion and the skateboarding world abandoned him. He adapted to street skating and eventually became one of the most innovative and influential skaters of all time. It's all here: everything from his eating and sleeping disorders to his comical experiences with loan sharks, occult-obsessed relatives, and the FBI. The Mutt is a look at Rodney's strange journey from penniless skateboarder to millionaire.
Download or read book Rhinos Who Skateboard written by Julie Mammano and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They ripped up the slopes in Rhinos Who Snowboard and rode some tasty waves in Rhinos Who Surf and now these adorably extreme rhinos take to the streets for a day of skateboarding fun. They grind some curbs, nab cool railsides, and pop an ollie or two. Complete with a glossary of sidewalk slang, children and skate rats of all ages will delight at the newest rhino adventure.
Download or read book Skateboarding written by Steve Badillo and published by Tracks Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates famous skateboarding tricks performed by legendary riders such as Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, along with a brief history and step-by-step instructions for each trick.
Download or read book Skateboard Tricks written by Jack Boyd and published by Spotlight Media. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skateboarding Tricks: Step By Step Instructions & Videos To Help You Land Your Next Trick! Do you like riding your skateboard? Have you tried doing some tricks, but no matter how hard you try, you always fail? If you want to learn dozens of incredible skateboard tricks, then this book will show you the easiest way to do so. From flip tricks and grab tricks, to air tricks and slide tricks - learning all of them will be a piece of cake. The only thing you will have to do after that is to impress your friends with your new skills. This book of skateboarding tricks for kids ages 8-12 is perfect for every kid that dreams of becoming the next Tony Hawk - who knows, maybe you will even surpass him. Are you that kid? With this book, you will learn dozens of old school and modern tricks with an accent on originality and creativity - but in the end, the most important thing is, you will have lots of fun. This instructional skateboarding guide contains step-by-step instructions and explanatory shots of every move you need to make to re-create all of these skateboarding tricks successfully. Here is what this guide to skateboarding for kids can offer you: Step-by-step instructions and explanatory shots of basic and advanced skateboarding tricks Guides to easily learn awesome flip tricks and grab tricks Guides to quickly learn incredible air tricks, slide tricks, and ramp tricks Few guidelines on skateboard safety Lots of fun and excitement And much more! If you want to quickly and easily learn dozens of skateboarding tricks and impress your friends with them, all you have to do is follow the step-by-step instructions found in this skateboarding guide for kids. It's that easy. Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy Now!
Download or read book Skateboard written by Jonathan Russell Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going straight to the sources: the skaters, photographers, commentators, and industry insiders who made such an unlikely rise to worldwide juggernaut possible. Skateboarders are their own historians, which means the real history of skating exists not in archives or texts but in a hodgepodge of random and iconic videos, tattered photographs, and, mostly, in the blurry memories of the people who lived through it all. From California beaches to Tokyo 2020, the skateboard has outlasted its critics to form a global community of creativity, camaraderie, and unceasing progression. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Download or read book My First Skateboard written by Karl Watson and published by . This book was released on 1976-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas meets Jack is the sequel to the book My First Skateboard. It is a tale about how friends are made through the act of skateboarding.
Download or read book The Most Fun Thing written by Kyle Beachy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • Southwest Review • Electric Literature Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old. In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike’s corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime—often overlooked, regularly maligned—whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy—and what it continues to teach him as he strugglesto find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.
Download or read book Skateboarding Made Simple Vol 1 written by Aaron Kyro and published by Braille Skateboarding. This book was released on 2014-09-27 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional Skateboarder Aaron Kyro breaks down the basics of skateboarding in this easy to follow book with clear video descriptions. The most detailed how to skateboard video ever made put into a book. All 50 minutes of the full "Skateboarding Made Simple Vol 1" video tutorial is included. The tricks are broken up into chapters and the step by step process for each trick is clearly laid out for you to follow. In this book you will learn the basics of riding your skateboard, Ollie, Frontside 180, Backside 180, Pop Shove-it, Frontside Pop Shove-it, Heelflip and Kickflip. Follow the steps in this book and progress super fast in your skateboarding now!
Download or read book I Can Skateboard written by Edana Eckart and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skateboarding Made Simple Vol 2 written by Aaron Kyro and published by Braille Skateboarding. This book was released on 2014-11-08 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most detailed how to skateboard video for manuals ever made! Learn how to balance, manual, nose manual, manual 180s, nose manual 180s, manual shove its, nose manual shove its, kickflip manual, kickflip nose manual, manual kickflip, nose manual nollie flip, and then progressing from there.
Download or read book When Skateboards Will Be Free written by Said Sayrafiezadeh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning memoir of growing up in America as the child of would-be socialist revolutionaries during the twilight of Communism.
Download or read book Skateboarding written by Jim Fitzpatrick and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you skateboard for transportation or like to hit the ramps at the local skateboard park, skateboarding is fun and can help you keep fit. Read this book to find out more about skateboarding and how it can help you stay healthy for life.
