Ever watched pro skaters and wished you knew how they were able to pull off the tricks that you see? If so, then "Mastering" "Skateboarding" is the resource for you

Two-time world champion skateboarder Per Welinder teams up with longtime skateboard advocate Peter Whitley to bring you the techniques and tricks used by the pros. But the information doesn't stop there. Welinder and Whitley also provide in-depth coverage of skateboarding equipment, including how to select the components that work best for you and how to build and tune a board that fits your individual riding style. Packed with XX tricks, this full-color guide is the only resource you'll ever need to pull off the moves you've dreamed of performing.

Whether you ride street or vert, competitive or recreational, "Mastering" "Skateboarding" has you covered. Add this one-of-a-kind resource to your collection and you'll soon be ready to put your new skills on display

Provides secrets and tips for making high quality skate sails with a limited budget; and, answers for skate sailing safety and how to still have fun.

Marty Donnellan has years of experience as a roller skating coach at rinks around Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She has taught scores of people how to skate, and many others how to improve their skating. "Teach Someone to Roller Skate - Even Yourself " is a complete curriculum for a beginning roller skating course for children through adult. By studying Marty's clear text and engaging illustrations, you, too, can now teach someone to roller skate - including yourself or your child - with skill and enjoyment. Or, you can build on existing skills. Many of the skills taught are transferrable to beginning outdoor inline skating and even beginning ice skating. Below are some of the topics covered: Styles of skates and skating - Beginning and intermediate skating positions and postures - How to keep from falling - How to rise from a fall - How to build up speed - Four ways to stop - Gliding on one foot - How to carve, pump, swizzle, scissor, and do crossovers - Beginning skills especially for older students - How to teach children under five - Two methods for beginning backwards skating - Beginning intermediate skills such as the Mohawk turn and two-footed spin - Edges - Exercises and drills to practice on and off skates - Checklist of beginning skills - Troubleshooting pain while skating... ...And more No matter where you intend to take your new sport - figure skating, speed skating, jam skating, roller hockey or derby - this book will help you get started. So let's get our skates on and get started View additional illustrations for "Teach Someone to Roller Skate" on our Facebook page of the same name, https: //www.facebook.com/# /TeachSomeoneToRollerSkate.

Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments, and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to energize skate parks-like soccer fields before them-as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital.

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

"Sewing for Skaters" is the second title in Marie Porter's "Spandex Simplified" series, and is all about designing and creating spectacular and durable figure skating dresses. It combines techniques taught in two of Marie's early manuals ("Skaters and Gynmasts and Dancers... Oh My " & "The Skating Dress Style Book"), updated with new styles and techniques... now in beautiful full color, featuring many photos and sketches This book is appropriate for beginner to advanced levels of sewing ability, and is written from both a designer, and former figure skater's point of view. It will teach everything from the basics, to tricks of the trade. "Spandex Simplified: Sewing for Skaters" will prepare the reader to design and make almost any design of practice or competition dress imaginable. Given the cost of decent competition suits - or even practice dresses - this manual will more than pay for itself with the savings from just one project The entire book is written completely in laymans' terms and carefully explained, step by step. Only basic sewing knowledge and talent is required. Learn everything from measuring, to easily creating ornate applique designs, to embellishing the finished suit in one book

Come Roll with us is a brief look into a subculture that has been around for generations. The hit movie Roll Bounce brought it to your attention and Tyrone Dixon's DVD: "8 Wheels and Some Soul Brother Music" tapped into it but they failed to capture the West Coast experience. Since every major city in America has its own style and flavor, we invite you to check us out and...Come Roll with Us This book captures visual imagery of the Fourth Annual West Cost, Back-To-Cali; Skate Jam. If you were there, then you are probably in the book Get your piece of documented Roller-Skating History. IT WAS THE LAST BACK-TO-CALI, SKATE JAM AT WORLD ON WHEELS

Roller derby has been making a huge comeback in recent years. There are now more than 17,000 skaters in more than 400 leagues across the world. Written by two veteran skaters 'Down and Derby' tells readers everything they ever wanted to know about the sport.

Underneath an azure sky with the wind in his face, Cleo Coney Jr. discovers a new world of speed, guts, and friendships. "Push, Carve, Grind" takes the reader to the Central West Coast of Florida, where skateboarding not only helped to develop a young mind, but also open one. Who knew that the close group of skaters he was a part of would be responsible for keeping the sport alive in his part of the world, during skateboarding's dark days when the skateboard parks all closed. "Push, Carve, Grind!" opens a window allowing the reader to explore this soul enhancing experience called skateboarding.

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.

Read about the culture of modern skateboarding, daredevils who took the sport off the street, into empty backyard pools and beyond.

In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that inspired the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders evoke the sometimes reckless but always exhilarating origins of skateboarding lifestyle and culture.