Skateboard was first discovered in the mid-1950s, along with the development of the surfing era in California, USA. First appeared, skateboard is still created by human hand and made of wood which combine with tires of skates and is connected by trucks from skates also very thick and heavy. At that time people also do not know the name 'skateboard', but 'sidewalk surfing'.
His time began when Marty McFly used it in a movie entitled "Back To The Future", here Marty uses skateboarding media as a means of transport.
In the mid 1960s, skateboarding became a fairly mainstream game in America. Two brands, Hobie and Makaha, saw the gap and started producing skateboarding, so the connoisseurs of this game no longer need to bother to make skateboards. They can be purchased directly and immediately play it.
The popularity of skateborad began to increase when a local magazine that discusses the game began publishing, namely Skateboarder Magazine. become a media that helps the skateboarder to know more about this. Makaha as one of the brands at that time really made a tremendous profit of 4 million US dollars in two years (1963-1965).
Beginning in 1970, Frank Nasworthy started his career in the skateboard world by designing a skateboard with a more famous polyurethane material under the name "Cadillac". Seeing the glory of the skateboard, more and more companies are competing against each other to make this land as their business field. One of them is Tracker Trucks that stood in 1976. Skateboard that produced was much better than the previous skateboard on the market, Banana Board became a board that became a trend at that time, its compact and elastic shape makes this one board in demand in the market . Not to mention the color games and very interesting designs that are on the board.
The triumph did not last long, a huge cost to make skate park a problem in that era, and finally in the early 1980s skateboard began not to hear the news again.
After disappearing for quite a while, the skateboard began to rise again in the mid-1980s. In this era many skateboarders who started creative and have enough funds so they are able to make vert ramp that becomes a land to play skateboard.
y extreme new style of freestyle skating which is the first step of a modern skateboard. Styles like flatground ollie, the ollie kickflip, the heelflip and 360 flip are creations because they are bored with the same style. After that the other styles are created like with short noses, slide rails and large soft wheels.
Bored with skateparks, then skateboarders start looking for something more challenging, until finally public facilities such as shopping malls, sidewalks and city parks become fields for them. Their extreme style of play finally gained the extreme attention of the authorities, from being mocked to severe sanctions to be acceptable to the skaters at the expense. But it did not make their deterrent, even in some countries finally began to follow how to play like that even in Indonesia itself also participated terjangkit virus.
