Whether you ride street or vert, competitive or recreational, this title brings you the techniques and tricks used by the skateboarding pros. It provides coverage of skateboarding equipment, including how to select the components that work best for you and how to build and tune a board that fits your individual riding style.
Jonas Stalk is uprooted from his life in Boston and transplanted into the land of sun, stars, and, oh yeah, excellent skate spots. Beginning his sophomore year at Hollywood High is no picnic as he attempts to fit in with the popular crowd and not sell himself out for popularity.
Compiling legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details more than a dozen spectacular stunts - combining technical information with insightful historical perspectives. It also includes a history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors.
Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - estimated at 40 million worldwide and creating a subculture of clothes, boards, music, slang and moves. This book demonstrates that street-style skateboarding offers a critique of architecture, the city and capitalism.
A comprehensive roller hockey-specific training guide. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes world-wide. It features year-round roller hockey-specific weight-training programs to improve your performance and get you results.
Professional Skateboarder Corbin Harris guides you through everything you need to know about skateboarding. From choosing the right set-up and perfecting your ollies, to building your own ramp and competing like a pro. Featuring dozens of trick tips and world-class photography from Australia's best skate photographers.
Introduces skateboarding fans to one of the most popular aspects of skateboarding: rail tricks. This book begins with the most basic of handrail tricks and progresses onto more difficult manoeuvres and rails. It includes a section on the history of rail skateboarding and the boarders who helped create and develop this sport.
A guidebook that details dozens of spectacular skateboarding stunts. It combines technical information with historical perspectives. Each trick is captured in action sequence and captioned so that aspiring riders can learn how each trick is performed. It also includes a history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors.
Presents safe and effective skateboarding instruction and programming as well as information on building and managing skateparks. This book covers skatepark management and administration. It offers an advice on planning and designing a stakepark and presents factors and questions to consider and information on the various types of skateparks.
Ramp tricks - skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipes - are a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, this guide teaches skaters the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs.
With sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to the flip trick, benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. With this book, readers learn the basics of such tricks while progressing toward veteran moves. It looks at the individuals responsible for the creation of flip tricks and how they came to invent this aspect.
Providing chapters on safety, equipment, and basic skills, this instructional guide discusses the fundamentals of skateboarding. It offers information on buying a first board, where to plant one's feet, how to stay safe while learning new stunts, and the history of this exciting sport.
The world-champion freestyle skateboarder and the man who brought the ollie - the trick that revolutionised the sport by taking it from the ground to the air - to street skating shares the history of skateboarding, as he tells the dramatic story of his life.