The American soldiers brought the trend with them and by Munich became the first German skateboard center. In Munich Neuperlach, the first skate park was built, first skateboard magazines followed and in the first German skateboard championships were held in Munich. All the different riders with their individual styles enhanced lots of new tricks.
Therefore, skateboarding hardware was developed further and further: Shapes changed, boards became wider, got more concave and they featured nose and tail. That was the birth of street skateboarding! The s Rodney Mullen was one of the first riders who transferred the Ollie for different maneuvers onto the streets and spread a new style of skateboarding.
Next to other fun sport activities like BMX or inline skating, street skateboarding developed more and more and became very popular.
Next to these magazines, a few smaller ones were founded and more skate shops opened. Because of this, the popularity of skateboarding continued to grow. A global dissemination of new tricks and unseen skate maneuvers allowed the first skate videos on VHS.
Videography has become increasingly important to the scene. Titus Dittmann was instrumental in the development of skateboarding in Germany. He imported skate-related products from the US and organized contests and various skateboarding events. For that reason, skateboarding became more and more famous in Germany.
From the mids on, it was possible to earn good money as a professional skateboarder and the skateboard industry boomed in the US. In the late s, companies like Powell Peralta , Santa Cruz and Vision dominated the international market of the scene. The fashion was mainly determined by shoes. Shoes by Vans, Converse or Vision became flagships for the skateboarding scene.
Skateboarding was now absolutely established the US and in Germany and vert skateboarding was replaced by street skateboarding. The number of skateboarders increased significantly and professional skateboarders became more and more famous just like baseball or football stars. From the s to now In the early s, skateboarding went through a further depth phase due to the increase in various trend sports. So skateboarding went back to its roots. But because of the digitalization, skateboarding maintained its presence in public.
From the mids, the modern skateboarding experienced a next high phase, which continues until today. Due to numerous magazines, all the events, videos and last but not least the internet, skateboarding became common worldwide. Because of brands like Chocolate, Girl Skateboards or Flip Skateboards, the skateboarding hardware was developed more and more and skateboarders could buy high-quality skateboards in every bigger city.
Due to the cash prizes of Reinventing the Skateboard Wheel. Not figuratively—but literally. The skateboard wheel was reinvented by Frank Nasworthy, who introduced the urethane wheel to skateboarding in The new wheel, replacing the clunky clay wheels of the and s, gripped the asphalt and pool walls like cleats to the grass. With the invention of the kick-tail alongside it, a raised back end of the skateboard , a new definition of a professional skateboard was born.
Skateboarding magazines sold at the local surf shop now had a horse to promote as a new craze of skateboarding began to expand world wide. Just three years after the new skateboard wheel, the first skatepark sprouted in Florida in Before the end of the decade, skateparks began to appear throughout North and South America, and soon after in the countries of Europe and Asia.
This moment in skateboarding history stands a cornerstone to its history and how skateboarding competitions would change in the coming decades. However, skateboarding would ultimately suffer another near-fatal crash at the approach of the s. Skateparks were no longer being constructed as sky-rocketing insurance costs latched onto the injury prone aspect of skating.
And so, no longer accepted by SoCal parents or corporations seeking the next great fad, skating became the calling card of anti-establishment culture and the growing punk scene of the s. From 0 to On June 27th, , Tony Hawk dropped in at the Summer X-Games vert ramp for the 11th time to land the most recognizable trick in skateboarding history.
But by the time Tony Hawk had officially brought professional skateboarding to the mainstream spotlight again, skateboarding had already undergone an immense transformation throughout the s and early s.
But most non-skaters have no idea how important the s and s really were for skateboarding. The blueprints for professional street skating were drawn and everything we have come to know about skateboarding media claimed their niches in the skate world. Landing a at 48? Tony Hawk Can Still Fly 17 years after stomping the world's first , …. With the help of a new skateboard designed for aerial maneuvers, Rodney Mullen had invented several flip tricks by the s, after Curt Lindgren invented the kickflip in Skateboarding evolved from the backyards of ramp builders into the parking lots of grocery stores riddled with red curbs.
Used by surfers when there were no waves to ride, the skateboard was first manufactured in California. More on the evolution of skate culture in the s can be traced through the skateboard that Tony Hawk donated to the National Museum of American History. In August , the Anchorage Museum and Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center hosted a program to provide Anchorage-area teenagers with an opportunity for creative, athletic expression through skateboarding.
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