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Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban
environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are
all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the
city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban
phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from
the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the
purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the
present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand
the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and
convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place
for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where
the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.
The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around
graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves
provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race,
class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates,
street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent
decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city
and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of
sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book
riveting.
This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports
context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author
presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a
productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization
and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and
determinism.
Serious skaters looking for unusual and innovative tricks will find
them in this skateboarding instructional guide. The tricks run the
gamut from classic old school to modern with an emphasis on
diversification, creativity, and originality. Included are riding
basics and tips for controlling fear, visualizing, and focusing.
Sequential shots detail every move needed to successfully re-create
the various skateboarding tricks. The mechanics of the sport are
also covered, including types of boards available, and the various
wheels, bearings, and skateboarding surfaces.
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From skateboarding's distant origins in the 1940s to the heyday of
the Z-Boys to Tony Hawk's lifelong and lucrative career as a
professional skateboarding icon, this book showcases what
skateboarding was in the past and what it's now evolved into. In
the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple,
idyllic child's pastime that originated in southern California to
becoming a worldwide youth culture phenomenon. This now-mainstream
action sport has spawned a multi-billion-dollar commercial market
for skateboarding equipment, skateboard-related media and
entertainment, as well as skate-inspired softgoods like clothing,
shoes, and accessories; and it is likely to soon become an Olympic
sport. Skateboarding: The Ultimate Guide is brimming with
fascinating history and engaging stories from skateboarding's
60-odd year existence and evolution. Covering the action sport's
origins, myriad breakthrough developments, pioneering heroes, both
"street style" and "vert" or ramp skating, unique popular culture,
and likely future, this book will delight anyone with an interest
in this individualistic and compelling athletic pursuit.
Bibliography includes primary and secondary sources and current
websites Glossary provides a comprehensive list of skating "lingo"
Index contains a comprehensive listing of names, companies, places,
and terms
Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of
femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book
examines skateboarding's relationship to gender politics through a
consideration of the personal politics connected to individual
skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding
takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and
symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani
Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to
skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through
gendered tropes. Through the author's work with skateboarding
charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of
recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects,
proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic
practice perspective.
Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of
femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book
examines skateboarding's relationship to gender politics through a
consideration of the personal politics connected to individual
skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding
takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and
symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani
Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to
skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through
gendered tropes. Through the author's work with skateboarding
charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of
recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects,
proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic
practice perspective.
Inside the complex and misunderstood world of professional street
skateboarding On a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, a crew of skaters
and videographers watch as one of them attempts to land a "heel
flip" over a fire hydrant on a sidewalk in front of the Biltmore
Hotel. A staff member of the hotel demands they leave and picks up
his phone to call the police.Not only does the skater land the
trick, but he does so quickly, and spares everyone the unwanted
stress of having to deal with the cops. This is not an uncommon
occurrence in skateboarding, which is illegal in most American
cities and this interaction is just part of the process of being a
professional street skater. This is just one of Gregory Snyder's
experiences from eight years inside the world of professional
street skateboarding: a highly refined, athletic and aesthetic
pursuit, from which a large number of people profit. Skateboarding
LA details the history of skateboarding, describes basic and
complex tricks, tours some of LA's most famous spots, and provides
an enthusiastic appreciation of this dangerous and creative
practice. Particularly concerned with public spaces, Snyder shows
that skateboarding offers cities much more than petty vandalism and
exaggerated claims of destruction. Rather, skateboarding draws
highly talented young people from around the globe to skateboarding
cities, building a diverse and wide-reaching community of
skateboarders, filmmakers, photographers, writers, and
entrepreneurs. Snyder also argues that as stewards of public plazas
and parks, skateboarders deter homeless encampments and drug
dealers. In one stunning case, skateboarders transformed the West
LA Courthouse, with Nike's assistance, into a skateable public
space. Through interviews with current and former professional
skateboarders, Snyder vividly expresses their passion, dedication
and creativity. Especially in relation to the city's architectural
features-ledges, banks, gaps, stairs and handrails-they are
constantly re-imagining and repurposing these urban spaces in order
to perform their ever-increasingly difficult tricks. For anyone
interested in this dynamic and daunting activity, Skateboarding LA
is an amazing ride.
Modern roller derby has been theorised as a gendered leisure
context, offering women opportunities for empowerment and growth,
and enabling them to carve a space for themselves in sport. No
longer a women-only sport, roller derby is now played by all
genders and has been heralded as a model of inclusivity within
sport. Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men's Roller Derby
offers an insight into how men's roller derby culture is created
and maintained, how members forge an identity for themselves and
their team, and how they create feelings of belonging and
inclusivity. Through in-depth ethnographic study of a specific,
localised roller derby community, this book examines how practices
of skills capital intersect with different configurations of
masculinity in a continual struggle between traditional and
inclusive models of sport. An interrogation of the ways a DIY sport
can be seen to be achieved, experienced, and understood in everyday
practice, this book will appeal to scholars of men, masculinities,
and sport. Additionally, the methodological discussions will be of
value to ethnographers and researchers who have had to deal with a
disruptive presence.
Desktop Skatepark has everything you need to assemble a miniature
skatepark and do some fingerboarding right at your desk! Kit
includes: * 1 mini skateboard * 2 sheets of full-color stickers to
customize your board * quarterpipe * mini funbox (includes a bank
ramp, stair set, grind rail, and wave ramp) * Instructional mini
book
Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion,
marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through
two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a
century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to
mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents
throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is
today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood.
"The Impossible" aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole
Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities
of skating. He does so largely by recounting the careers of the
sport's Yoda--Rodney Mullen, who, in his mid-forties, remains the
greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern
skateboarding tricks--and its Luke Skywalker--Ryan Sheckler, who
became its youngest pro athlete and a celebrity at thirteen. The
story begins in the 1960s, when the first boards made their way to
land in the form of off-season surfing in southern California. It
then follows the sport's spikes, plateaus, and drops--including its
billion-dollar apparel industry and its connection with art,
fashion, and music. In "The Impossible, " we come to know
intimately not only skateboarding, but also two very different,
equally fascinating geniuses who have shaped the sport more than
anyone else.
One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland
drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered
skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the
canyon. Immediately transfixed by their grace and athleticism, he
knew he had found an amazing subject. Although not a skateboarder
himself, for the next three years Holland never tired of
documenting skateboarders surfing the streets of Los Angeles, parts
of the San Fernando Valley, Venice Beach, and as far away as San
Francisco and Baja California, Mexico. During the mid-1970s,
Southern California was experiencing a serious drought, leaving an
abundance of empty swimming pools available for trespassing
skateboarders to practice their tricks. From these suburban
backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this
was the place that created the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys
skateboarders. With their requisite bleached blonde hair, tanned
bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders are masterfully
captured against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern
California landscape in LOCALS ONLY. LOCALS ONLY features more than
120 beautiful color images plus a Q+A format interview with the
artist.
FDR Skatepark began its life in 1996 with a few small obstacles
built by the City of Philadelphia in an attempt to meet the needs
of a growing community. In true D-I-Y fashion, local skaters soon
gathered their resources and began the ongoing construction of a
space of their own design. As the world's largest D-I-Y skateboard
park, today FDR is recognized throughout the world as a landmark in
the skateboarding community. A photographic history of FDR, this
book contains work from more than 25 contributors, from amateurs
with disposable cameras to professional photographers. Side by side
with the actual skateboarding are photos of wildfires, box cutter
wounds, riot police, and drunks shooting sewer rats. Complete with
oral histories gathered from park locals, this one-of-a-kind record
documents the legend and landscape of the past fifteen years under
the bridge.
The world-champion freestyle skateboarder and the man who brought
the ollie - the trick that revolutionised the sport by taking it
from the ground to the air - to street skating shares the history
of skateboarding, as he tells the dramatic story of his life.
At the age of 13, Rodney took the freestyle skating world by
storm. He won 35 world titles in less than five years. But through
it all, his father looked down on his son's love for skating and
pressured him to walk away from the sport and leave behind his fans
and status as the most famous skateboarder of his era. After years
of stress and conflict, Rodney gave in and promised his father he'd
quit for good. But by the time he finally broke free from his
suffocating and abusive home life, the popularity of freestyle had
waned and given way to vert and street styles. So Rodney picked up
his board and started from scratch. With the help of mentor Mike
Ternansky, Rodney used his freestyle background to usher in a whole
new era of street skating.
Today Rodney is more popular than ever. The videos in his
series Rodney Versus Daewon are among the most popular skateboard
videos ever produced. He won the 2002 Transworld Skateboarding
readers' choice award for favourite street skater and is the most
popular character on the top-selling Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video
games.
Today's roller derby is a wildly popular woman's contact sport,
international in scope. This grass roots sport is built on fun, for
the spirited rollerskaters and the fans alike. From Reno to
Toronto, roller derby is everywhere. See 250 color images of
promotional material, including fliers, handbills, logos, and
posters promoting bouts for more than 50 leagues around the world,
tht convey the thrill of roller derby's glamour, grit, and glory.
See the ladies themselves, as they travel the globe on eight
wheels. Collect the artwork and be inspired to join the fun, on
either side of the railing.
As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts 'derby grrrls' are
pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of
pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural
analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new,
globalized women's sport and an everyday creative leisure space,
this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as
a gendered space for self-transformation, belonging and embodied
contest, in which women are invited to experience their emotions
differently, embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport, Gender and
Power: The Rise of Roller Derby presents detailed interview,
ethnographic and autoethnographic material, together with a range
of media texts to shed new light on the complex relationships of
power experienced by women in derby as a sport culture, whilst also
examining the darker relationships that characterise the sport,
including those of inclusion and exclusion, difference and
identity, and competition and participation. A contemporary
feminist study of empowerment, sexual difference, gender and
affect, this book will appeal to scholars of gender and sexuality,
embodiment, feminist thought and the sociology of sport and
leisure.
Heads up, collectors and enthusiasts! Rhyn Noll has put together a
detailed look at the evolution of skateboarding that starts in the
early twentieth century--with rollerskates, 2" x 4" boards, and
some improvisation. Catch the concrete wave through the decades, as
skateboarding developed into a popular pastime, a competitive
sport, and a unique culture all its own. As skating continues to
evolve and gain popularity, it's no wonder that the boards of
yesterday are in growing demand on today's collector's market. This
incredible book combines 693 color photos of decks, wheels, trucks,
and other gear that illustrate the sport's dramatic changes in
design and graphics; photos of famous riders in action over seven
decades; a huge list of skateparks in the USA; and a useful
glossary to help the newcomer get a handle on skateboard lingo.
Full pricing information is provided. This book is a required
reference for skateboarders, past and present, an excellent
resource for collectors, and a fascinating look at an evolving
popular culture!
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