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The Answer Is Never - A Skateboarder's History of the World (Paperback, 1st ed)
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The Answer Is Never - A Skateboarder's History of the World (Paperback, 1st ed)
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From the hard-ridden half-pipe of a suburban driveway to teens
doing boardslides down stairway handrails in Rio de Janeiro, from
the bright-light glare of ESPN's X-Games to the groundbreaking
street-skating videos of Spike Jonze, skateboarding has taken the
world by storm -- and if you can't deal with that, get out of the
way. In The Answer Is Never, skating journalist Jocko Weyland tells
the rambunctious story of a rebellious sport that began as a
wintertime surfing substitute on the streets of Southern California
beach towns more than forty years ago and has evolved over the
decades to become a fixture of urban youth culture around the
world. Merging the historical development of the sport with
passages about his own skating adventures in such wide-ranging
places as Hawaii, Germany, and Cameroon, Weyland gives a fully
realized portrait of a subculture whose love of free-flowing
creativity and a distinctive antiauthoritarian worldview has
inspired major trends in fashion, music, art, and film. Along the
way, Weyland interweaves the stories of skating pioneers like Gregg
Weaver and the Dogtown Z-Boys and living legends like Steve
Caballero and Tony Hawk. He also charts the course of innovations
in deck, truck, and wheel design to show how the changing boards
changed the sport itself, enabling new tricks as skaters moved from
the freestyle techniques that dominated the early days to the
extreme street-skating style of today. Vivid and vibrant, The
Answer Is Never is a fascinating book as radical and unique as the
sport it chronicles.
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