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    Skateboarding is an action sport that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment...
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    first skateboards were made from roller skates attached to a board. Skateboarding gained in popularity because of surfing: in fact, skateboarding was initially...
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    A skateboarding trick, or simply a trick, is a maneuver performed by manipulating a skateboard, usually with one's feet, in a specific way to achieve the...
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    Tony Hawk (category American skateboarders)
    Hawk completed the first documented "900" skateboarding trick in 1999. He also licensed a skateboarding video game series named after him, published...
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    Vert skateboarding, short for vertical skateboarding, is the act of riding a skateboard on a skate ramp or other incline and involves the skateboarder transitioning...
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    "trick tip" in the skateboarding magazine Thrasher. The flat ground ollie technique is strongly associated with street skateboarding; mini ramp and vert...
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  • Element Skateboards is an American skateboard company, founded in 1992 by Johnny Schillereff, that manufactures skateboard decks, trucks, wheels, griptape...
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    Freestyle skateboarding (or freestyle) is one of the oldest styles of skateboarding and was intermittently popular from the 1960s until the early 1990s...
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  • Steve Berra (category American skateboarders)
    the time, decided that a professional skateboarding career was his aspiration. In pursuit of his skateboarding career, Berra relocated to southern California...
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    slide is a skateboarding trick where the skateboarder slides sideways either on the deck or the trucks. Frontside A slide with the skateboarder's frontside...
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    skateboarding will be inducted as one of the mandatory sports at the 2028 games. Athletes compete in the disciplines of park and street skateboarding...
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  • Skater, released as Tony Hawk's Skateboarding in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe, is a 1999 skateboarding video game developed by Neversoft...
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    Rodney Mullen (category American skateboarders)
    professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and street skateboarding. He is considered one of the most influential skateboarders of all...
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    Nyjah Huston (category Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in skateboarding)
    States Olympic Team in the Street Skateboarding discipline for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics - the first year for skateboarding at the Olympics. He qualified for...
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  • First Woman to Land a 900". TransWorld SKATEboarding Magazine. "'Glass ceilings are so 2023': Watch as skateboarding legend Tony Hawk hails Aussie teen's...
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    Tim Brauch (category American skateboarders)
    professional skateboarder who grew up in San Jose, California. Brauch came up in skateboarding during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period of skateboarding when...
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    Nike Skateboarding, primarily known as Nike SB, is the Nike brand for its line of shoes, clothing, and equipment for skateboarding. Nike Skateboarding won...
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    Jason Lee (actor) (category American skateboarders)
    in the skateboarding promotional video, Video Days (1991), filmed for the skateboarding company Blind Skateboards. In 2004, Lee's skateboarding was featured...
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  • Peralta pro skateboarder Tony Hawk to be 50-50 partners in this new skateboard company. Hawk gladly accepted as he felt his time in skateboarding was nearly...
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    while skateboarding, which is extremely uncommon among professional street skateboarders. Anderson represented Canada in the men's park skateboarding event...
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    Jay Adams (category American skateboarders)
    American skateboarder. As a teen, he was the youngest member of the Zephyr Competition Skateboarding Team (Z-Boys). His spontaneous freestyle skateboarding style...
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  • Brian (December 7, 2013). "YBAm Riley Hawk Turns Pro". The Skateboard Mag. Strictly Skateboarding. Archived from the original on February 13, 2014. Retrieved...
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    Street skateboarding is a skateboarding discipline which focuses on flat-ground tricks, grinds, slides and aerials within urban environments, and public...
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  • his professional skateboarding career in 1980 at age 14. In 1982, he won his first major contest, the Canadian Amateur Skateboarding Championships in...
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  • The World Skateboarding Championship is an annual competition of men's and women's park skateboarding and street skateboarding, organized by World Skate...
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  • A varial flip is a type of skateboarding trick in which the skateboard rotates around its vertical axis, or its vertical axis and its horizontal axis...
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  • The following is a list of notable companies that produce skateboards and skateboarding merchandise. Companies listed may also be members of the US-based...
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    Rob Dyrdek (category American skateboarders)
    Cup events. In 2010, Dyrdek launched Street League Skateboarding (SLS), a professional skateboarding competition series. The league offered the highest...
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    original members of the Zephyr Competition Skateboarding Team, also known as the Z-Boys. The Transworld Skateboarding Magazine ranked him eighth in its list...
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  • relation to skateboarding culture. Probably the oldest style of skateboarding, freestyle skateboarding developed from the use of skateboards as a mode of...
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