Skateboarding

Skateboarding is a sport that consists of sliding on a table with wheels and in turn to perform a variety of tricks, much of them raisin the floorboard and making figures and tricks whit it in the air. It is practiced with a skateboard, flat wooden board and bent at the ends and having two axles and four wheels, and with two bearings on each of the four wheels, preferably on a flat surface, wherever you can roll Wether on the street or in skateparks.

History

The emergence of this extreme sport falls to the state of California for the years 1960 and 1970, at which time extreme sports like surfing enjoyed a great boom (modality era) worldwide. The main reason for the creation of the skateboard is based on the replacement of the surfboard on land. The earliest designs of these consisted of only one piece of wood either altered with mainly roller skates. Then for the year 1972 began to manufacture "skateboards" with the most advanced technology and specific for that modality. The materials of manufacture consisted of soft iron, of low resistance, clay and rubber. Later in 1972 I began to notice through magazines and the media this interest in skateboards. For the years 1975 and 1980 and the modality was dispersed by all America. Finally for the beginning of the 1980s, skateboarding was expanded by every corner of the world, the youth acquired it their own, as well as public spaces, since these are the "field" to be able to practice the sport. Created from a variation of surfing, this is usually an advertising claim for young people (skaters or not). For those who skate, the 2002 report for American Sports Data estimated that there were 13.5 million skaters around the world; 84% were under 18 years of age, of which 74% were men and 26% were women. In 1963 in California, the first skateboarding championship took place and two years later the number of skaters had already multiplied and the first international championships (1965) began.

Alex Ribeiro Romera