| Not many people know that surfing is considered to | | | | skateboarders can also be used for rollerblades. The |
| be the ancestor of skateboarding. At first it was | | | | skateboard began its changing process during the |
| called sidewalk surfing, so this can be a possible link | | | | time of the evolution in skateboard parks and ramp |
| to its origins. Nowadays, skateboarding is gaining | | | | riding. The street riding consisted only of two |
| more and more fans. Everything is changing in what | | | | dimensional moves. People could ride on only the |
| people prefer practicing more, as wakeboarding | | | | front wheels, that is a nose wheelie or spin spinning |
| seems to be replacing much waterskiing and | | | | like an ice skater on the back wheels, which is a 360. |
| snowboarding replacing much skiing. The skateboards | | | | They could also high jump over a bar, long jump |
| in the 1970s were surfboard shaped boards designed | | | | from one board to another. This was sometimes |
| more for the California vibe than for function, as | | | | even done over some teenagers lying on their backs. |
| skateboarding was still a sidewalk sport. The boards | | | | The slalom and the stale fish are also other tricks |
| were not at all stable, as the wheels were being kept | | | | people used to do when skateboarding. The |
| together by some narrow trucks. Terrain skating | | | | introduction of the ollie or no hands aerial |
| increased, as the boards and truck widened. Even if | | | | transformed skateboarding almost completely. This is |
| at first the drainage ditches and empty swimming | | | | the first modern skateboarding trick and was |
| pools were the practice places to be used, the | | | | invented by Alan Ollie Gelfand. The ollie is to fly off |
| skaters soon began to build their own terrains, the | | | | the ground (flat or a wall) with the board, but |
| ramp. Originally, the ramp was a quarter pipe that | | | | without holding onto the board and then landing back |
| you would skate up to and up to the edge at the | | | | on the board. It involves using your feet to press |
| top. The half pipe was a major breakthrough. Even if | | | | against the board in various complicated combinations, |
| there are skateboard parks with extremely complex | | | | depending on the trick you intend doing. The good |
| 3-d terrains, the half pipe is still the core of upper | | | | skateboarders usually get sponsorship and |
| level skateboarding. These can also be found in ski | | | | endorsements, which soon make them very famous. |
| resorts for snowboarders. The pipes for | | | | |