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Skateboard culture:

With the launching of skateboarding, skateboard surfing technology catching up with its ancestor. Gai Fante (Alan Gelfand) invented the dolphin jump (The Ollie), to pay more attention to high-tech skateboard industry performance, resulting in many, such as Hawk (Tony Hawk) and Caballero (Steven Caballero) and other stars. By the skateboard business, tour the famous organization of the Company brand promotion activities, to bring great benefits to businesses, has become a common practice of industrial marketing. Sense of sliding soil heavy hand clothing, retro shoes became the world trend, and the related music (New Wave Music, Punk, Hip-Hop) also reached the tripod wins, its language, techniques, costumes and music, constitute a unique Features skateboarding culture. Skateboarding enthusiast in the United States up to 450 million people! As skateboarding too thrilling, exciting, in the 60s of this century, skateboarding strictly prohibited by the government, once reduced to "underground project." Until the mid-80s, the government openly ban skateboarding project Caibei in deep, making the city a comeback magic sport. Skateboarding superstar Tony Hawker and Andy McDonald is no doubt in the eyes of many young people, and Jordan, Pete Sampras as the super-idol.


Skateboarding history:

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[1] in the nineteenth century, the Pacific Ocean late fifties, inventive Edison's descendants were the old people's fantasy Shenzhou more or less become a reality. The early fifties the West Coast is a large beach-goers who try skill areas. They use ordinary wood and the high cost of light wood surfboard on the cusp of fun. To five mid-molded polyurethane foam and fiberglass replaced wood surfboard. These new surfboard mobility and durability makes surfing much popular in the late fifties.
Skateboarding is surfing on land extension. The former by the geographical and climatic conditions, while the latter have more freedom. Sunny beaches of Southern California system of community residents were quickly out of the world's first piece of skateboarding.
In this view, it is very quaint invention: 1 50 * 50CM wooden roller fixed in the iron wheels. Even such a simple exercise equipment, because it offers surfing brings the same psychological feeling also aroused sufficient interest.
However, this first slide backward because of their own (plate too cumbersome, inflexible, insensitive steering, wheels slippery, etc.), skateboarding has not been like this popularity, this can be the first skateboard skateboard video program "prohibited" (Ban This) to see.
Skate 2 generation was born in 1962. This is a multilayer repression by the oak 15 * 60 cm board, steering axle and the plastic wheels skating composition. And compared to the first generation of skateboard, skateboarding is no doubt that a technology leap. However, this skateboard performance plastic wheels still far from ideal. He's too small when attached to the friction to slide a sharp turn out of control; and his low elasticity is small skateboard obstacles will be encountered in even a halt to skaters fall. Meanwhile, his bad wear resistance. Nevertheless, this slide is still being widely welcomed by sliding their hands. After all, compared to the previous generation of skateboarding, it already had a large degree of evolution, the relative leniency of the board to make it easier for skaters to stand up and manipulated. China is now selling most of this second generation of skateboard products.
In 1973, a man named Worthy of skateboard enthusiasts for the first time the placement of polyurethane wheels of his skateboard and get unexpected results. He then began to call this "Cadillac" brand of skateboard wheels sold his friends. This flexible wheels not only wear, but also a sharp turn to slide safe, secure, easy to run over small obstacles on the ground. Thus the third generation skateboard invented. As skateboarding surfing derived from reason, the early seventies with surfing skateboarding culture to the cultural imprint. Skateboarder and skateboard park builders started construction of a number of simulated surfing terrain. Later, they finally realized that, due to sliding resistance than the surfboard, light weight, you can create different from the surf and the terrain more suitable for skateboards to achieve greater speed, mobility and ability to self-expression.
Santa Monica, California's "West wind" skateboard team abandoned the key to pass the swimming pool as a venue to practice skateboard vertical surface, a time to find form in the California heat swimming pools. From this time, skateboarding and surfing not only from the equipment, the venue, but also from the staff, the complete separation, a sudden rise of a different army. This new military was not involved in surfing, skateboarding as one studying, and begun to form their own language, skills, clothing style and music loving. The formation of a new life to city secondary led by skateboarding culture.
The mid-seventies is the third generation skateboard period of rapid development. Premonition would come into being a new sport, numerous skateboarding and surfing enthusiasts from the establishment of a small skateboard companies have mushroomed in and began to conduct a comprehensive technical quality of the competition. Polyurethane wheels are fully tap the potential. Continuous improvement of polyurethane skateboard wheels to enhance adhesion friction, speed increase, or even slip on vertical surfaces.
In addition, research and development on the slide material has reached the point where the poor and all. Hard plastic, aluminum, fiberglass, and even high-tech carbon composite materials have been used to trial slide. In the end, good impact resistance, light weight, the Canadian sugar maple shoulder the historical mission of the new generation of slide material.
In addition, across from the Powell company invented the polyurethane wheels and a large obstacle Stevenson patent concave rear so that the third generation skateboard skateboard next level.
The late 80s, due to the development of skateboarding and the skaters themselves are required to improve skills on skateboards, and in order to meet the U-Pond (vert ramp) needs two-way slide, a skateboard shape with three generations of two different tilt, symmetrical shape skateboard there, and this is the fourth generation of skateboards. Only skaters who are fourth in the skateboard use. Slide switch to the fourth generation of hard rock maple lighter and more flexible. Skateboard wheels, high hardness, good flexibility, is more suitable for high-speed taxiing. As the weight balance, the fourth generation of skateboards is more suitable for a variety of reversal.
The early nineties, skateboarding into a low period. As the new generation is in a period of skateboarding, skateboard from 1 to 2, so we had many of the former generation of skateboards can not complete the action. This period is skateboarding skills of action (technical tricks) of the times. Skaters have invented many new moves. Meanwhile, in order to make it easier to flip skateboard, skateboard board becomes very narrow, the wheels become very small. This time the width of a typical skateboard only 7 inches, while the wheel diameter is only about 39mm. While this slide is easier to make complex movements, but smaller wheels are sliding hinder its performance.