SEARCH: Find your nearest club or activity
I am looking for Located in (optional)  
 

 
POPULAR SEARCHES
Click for full list
Cinemas Cinemas
Go-Karting Go-Karting
Health Clubs Health Clubs
Golf Clubs Golf Clubs
Tennis Clubs Tennis Clubs
Bowling Bowling
THE BUZZ ON FORUM

Latest topic 0 Replies
 
safety in grapefruit.......
Plavix Without Pr........

Have your say

Who is Online
There are 21 guest(s) online.
There are 0 member(s) online.

Go to the Forum >>
 
LATEST REVIEWS
 

Paul Gannon Karate Academy


My son started with Mr Gannon last year. At first everything was ok, but then we started getting te....

Read more

Ealing Riding School


i work on the yard at ealing riding school and i love it. To be honest we get grumpy clients having ....

Read more
Skateboards: Skateboarding, Skate Parks

spacer

spacer
skateboarding 1
Skateboarding Ramp

skateboarding 2
Skateboarding Jump

skateboarding 3
Skateboarding Trick

 Skateboarding is the act of rolling on or interacting with a skateboard. Someone who skateboards is a skater (or skateboarder), though the skater may also refer to someone ice skating or roller skating. Skateboarding has been thought of by many as part of the extreme sports family, or as an artform for its creative aspects. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by dozens of skateboarders throughout the years.

Skateboarding has its origins in surfing, and was originally called "sidewalk surfing". While surfing influenced skateboarding in its early days, now the reverse is also true. Surfers are adapting skateboarding tricks into surfing, and the result is evolution in both sports.

The Current Generation of Skateboard

The size and shape of the fourth and current generation of skateboard is dominated by one trick: the ollie. Most boards are about 7 1/4 to 8 inches wide and 30 to 32 inches long. The wheels have an extremely hard durometer (approximately 99) so that they will slide better during grind and slide tricks. Additionally, very high durometers offer the benefit of reduced drag on hard surfaces, resulting in an overall faster ride. The wheel sizes are relatively small so that the boards will rotate more easily during flip tricks.

Today, modern wheels are currently around 50 to 58mm in diameter and advances in technology have made them extremely light compared to the wheels of the eighties. The decks are still almost always constructed out of Canadian Maple, with 7-plys being the industry standard for strength and durability. Interest in high technology materials has increased slightly as the cost of manufacturing them has dropped.
Skateboard tricks
With the evolution of skateboard parks or skateparks and ramp riding, the skateboard began to change. Early skate tricks consisted mainly of two-dimensional manoeuvres (e.g. riding on only the front wheels (nose manual), spinning like an ice skater on the back wheels (a 360 pivot), high jumping over a bar, long jumping from one board to another (often over fearless teenagers lying on their backs), slalom, etc.).

Around 1978, street riding became transformed by the invention of the ollie, the first modern skateboarding trick, by Alan "Ollie" Gelfand. An ollie is performed by pressing down quickly on the back of a skateboard, and controlling the resulting upward motion of the skateboard with the skater's front foot. This results in the skateboarder, along with his/her skateboard, lifting into the air. At first, none of Gelfand's companions believed it was possible to perform a feat like this, and they thought he was attaching his feet to the skateboard somehow.

The trick was reinvented by Rodney Mullen in the 80's, being transferred to the horizontal plane and used as a trick for freestyle skateboarding (a style of skating popular in the seventies and eighties based on stationary manoeuvres). (Rodney Mullen also invented the kick flip.) No longer is the trick simply to fly from one place to another. On the way the skateboard can twist and flip, as can the rider. The development of these complex tricks by Rodney Mullen and others has transformed skateboarding.

Use the Your Lesiure Time Quick Search for a full list of UK Locations.

Featured Selection of Stake Park Web Sites in UK

Bridge Park Skate Park - Ipswich, Suffolk
Y2SK8 - Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Radlands Skate Park - Northampton
The Park - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Epic Skate Park- Moseley, Greater Birmingham
Wolverhampton Skate Park
Wolverhampton City Skate Park
Ramp City - Blackpool, Lancs
Rampworx 2 Youth Village - Liverpool
R-Kade Skate Park - Redcar, Teeside
Longhill Skate Park - Bracknell, Berkshire
Revolution - Broadstairs, Kent
Skaterham - Caterham, Surrey
Southsea Skate Park - Southsea, Hants
Airborn - Wareham, Dorset
Dreamfields - Taunton, Somerset
The Front - Weymouth, Dorset



 
 
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Registration