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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Skateboarding & snakeboarding
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.
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.
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!
Read about the culture of modern skateboarding, daredevils who took
the sport off the street, into empty backyard pools and beyond.
Award-winning Brooklyn-based sports photographer Jonathan Mehring,
named by ESPN as one of the top ten skateboard influencers, has
logged thousands of hours with pro skate teams in some of the
world's most unusual and unlikely destinations - from Mongolia and
Australia to Kazakhstan and the Amazon. In this book he joins his
photography with the best of his contemporaries' to show the joy,
excitement, and sense of freedom that skateboarding brings, uniting
people in all walks of life and every corner of the world
Taking place at real street locations, this photographic collection
provides readers with the information necessary to take
skateboarding abilities to a higher level of performance.
Progression of style and technique in skateboarding has led to the
cutting-edge use of real-world terrain such as curbs, stairs, and
handrails. Beginning with instruction on how to properly negotiate
curbs and escalating to the endless ways a skateboarder can
maneuver up, over, and down the cement and asphalt that make up the
urban and suburban landscapes, these step-by-step photographs will
help skateboarders master the streets of the world.
Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its
constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its
participants' athleticism is undeniable, roller derby has never
been accepted as a "real" sport. Michella M. Marino, herself a
former skater, tackles the history of a sport that has long been a
cultural mainstay for one reason both utterly simple and infinitely
complex: roller derby has always been coed. Richly illustrated and
drawing on oral histories, archival materials, media coverage, and
personal experiences, Roller Derby is the first comprehensive
history of this cultural phenomenon, one enjoyed by millions yet
spurned by mainstream gatekeepers. Amid the social constraints of
the mid-twentieth century, roller derby's emphasis on gender
equality attracted male and female athletes alike, producing gender
relations and gender politics unlike those of traditional
sex-segregated sports. In an enlightening feminist critique, Marino
considers how the promotion of pregnancy and motherhood by roller
derby management has simultaneously challenged and conformed to
social norms. Finally, Marino assesses the sport's present and
future after its resurgence in the 2000s.
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.
Join photographer and skater Andreanna Seymore on her fearless
journey through the world of roller derby, beginning with her
serendipitous introduction to the sport in 2008. Modern roller
derby is a vibrant, empowering, and revolutionary movement
transitioning from obscure subculture to mainstream pastime on both
a national, as well as global, stage. Action-packed and emotionally
provocative photographs taken over a five-year period reveal the
joy, pain, and dedication of these athletes on and off the track.
Enriched by riveting and often touching commentary from nearly one
hundred skaters, coaches, fans, and referees, this book captures
the daring, entrepreneurial spirit of the participants, the
extraordinary bonds that form, and the invigorating and infectious
fanaticism that characterizes every bout. An increasing number of
male, co-ed, and junior leagues all share a strong, do-it-yourself
ethic that combines fierce athleticism with elements from punk,
camp, and third-wave feminist aesthetics. In part because of this
non-discriminatory nature, roller derby is currently the fastest
growing sport in America."
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
Providing updated and revised chapters on safety, equipment, and
basic skills, this instructional guide discusses the fundamentals
of skateboarding. Presented in a helpful question and answer
format, beginners will find information on buying a first board,
where to plant one's feet, how to stay safe while learning new
stunts, and the history of this exciting sport. From ollies to
kickturns, detailed techniques are presented on the 15 tricks every
skater should know. Honest and humorous interviews with skating
professionals are included, along with an invaluable list of
resources - including books, camps, museums, skate parks, shops,
websites, and magazines. With more than 500 new images,
step-by-step instructions and photographs illustrate the foolproof
methods to turn skateboarding novices into experts.
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.
Ramp tricks--skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps,
cement bowls, and half-pipes--are a key, albeit challenging,
component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential
photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are
safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks.
Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides,
skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance
needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs. A
brief history of ramp skateboarding examines the birth of the genre
as well as champions of the sport, including the pioneering Dogtown
Crew and current stars Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk.
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