A Brief history of skateboarding

Skateboarding was created somewhere in the 1950's in California by a group of
surfers who needed a occupation while the sea was calm.
The Quarterly Skateboarder was the first skateboarding magazine published by
John Severson in 1964.

photo: the first issue of "The Quarterly Skateboarder"

In the 1980's , skateboarding was mostly focused on vert ramp skateboarding
while on the other side there was Rodney Mullen inventing many of the tricks
like the kickflip or the impossible that are still being done by professional
skateboarders around the world today. A good watch about the history of
skateboarding would be Dogtown and Z-Boys Directed by Stacy Peralta, a
skateboarding legend.

photo: Stacy Peralta skateboarding

In the 1990's, skateboarding was overrun by street skateboarding. Board styles
have changed drastically since the 1980's, wheels were smaller, boards were
between 7.3 and 8.0 inches wide.
Names like Ed Templeton, Eric Koston, Rodney Mullen helped shaped
skateboarding what it still is today. All of them still skate.

photo: Eric Koston, backside nosebluntslide

2001.Skateboarding became so popular that more then half of the bigger cities
around the world had skateparks or indoor skate facilities. Skate kontests
around the world, televised or not, street or vert, were exploding around the
globe. 2016. reasarch reveals that there are 11.08 million active skateboarders in
the world.

"To understand what it truly means to be a skateboarder, one should roll one,
sit back and and play "We are blood" Directed by Ty Evans."

• Vermillion666, author.