skateboarding presentation

Skateboarding

By: Brett Tracanna

Parts of a skateboard

History

• Skateboarding started in the 1950’s• No exact date for when skateboarding was

invented• Became very popular in the early 60’s• Skateboard wheels began as just clay but then

urethane skateboard wheels were invented which are what is used today

The ollie•Board stays under feet

•Board is evened out in the air

•Pop with back foot

•Slide front foot forward as you jump

Slide up foot

Tricks

• Kickflip• Heelflip• 360 flip• Lazer flip• Varial kickflip• Varial heelflip• Pop shov-it• Front shov-it• indy

• Nollie• Frontside

and backside 180

• Frontside and backside 360

• Bigspin• Bigflip• Backside and

frontside flip

Landing Right

Don’t lean to far back

Don’t Lean to far forward

Land it on the bolts

Stances

• Goofy is where your left foot pops your tail• Regular is where your right foot pops your tail• Mongo is when you pedal with the same foot

you use to pop the board with

Myself

Sources

• http://www.awesome-skateboard.com/SkateboardParts.html

• http://skateboard.about.com/cs/boardscience/a/brief_history.htm

• http://www.skateboardhere.com/skateboard-trick-list.html