Old School Skateboarding

Skateboarding has a long history. It is a huge sport now, but at the start of the 1960s only a handful of people had boards. The 1960s saw the first wave of skateboarding when surfers started cruising on boards with wheels when there were no waves to surf. This boom was called sidewalk surfing. The 1970s saw lots of new inventions. These included urethane wheels which gripped and rode better, kicktails (the curved upward part of the board at the back), and wider skateboards. These helped riders invent lots of new tricks including, in 1978, the Ollie.