Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2
Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1884654797

Compiling more legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details dozens of spectacular stunts—combining invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each feat is captured in action sequence and captioned allowing aspiring riders to learn how to perform them. A history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors, is also included. Blending background and how-to, this copiously illustrated reference explains amazing maneuvers that changed the sport and encourages a deep respect for the legends that made skateboarding the worldwide passion it is today.

Skateboarding

Skateboarding
Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1884654355

Demonstrates famous skateboarding tricks performed by legendary riders such as Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, along with a brief history and step-by-step instructions for each trick.

Skateboarder's Start-Up

Skateboarder's Start-Up
Author: Doug Werner
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2010-07-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1458785394

Providing updated and revised chapters on safety, equipment, and basic skills, this instructional guide discusses the fundamentals of skateboarding. Presented in a helpful question and answer format, beginners will find information on buying a first board, where to plant one's feet, how to stay safe while learning new stunts, and the history of ...

Skateboarding

Skateboarding
Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1884654193

Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty-four skateboarding tricks, including old school, spine, and new school stunts, and includes an interview with skateboarder and coach Steve Badillo.

Extreme Sports and Their Greatest Competitors

Extreme Sports and Their Greatest Competitors
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1622755979

When asked to define what makes a sport extreme, one practitioner—a rock climber in the countryside and a skateboarder in the city—replied, “It’s a sport where you may well hurt yourself, or worse.” Readers of this compelling book will learn all about these alternative, edgy sports and what it takes to parachute from an airplane, zip-line through the air, or brave the possibility of a flash flood by venturing into a canyon. Or, readers may simply be satisfied to read about the popular X Games, during which they can sit back and watch the pros take the risks.

Mastering Skateboarding

Mastering Skateboarding
Author: Per Welinder
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492582670

Ever watched pro skaters and wished you knew how they were able to pull off the tricks that you see? If so, then MasteringSkateboarding is the resource for you! Two-time world champion skateboarder Per Welinder teams up with longtime skateboard advocate Peter Whitley to bring you the techniques and tricks used by the pros. But the information doesn’t stop there. Welinder and Whitley also provide in-depth 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. Packed with 88 tricks, this full-color guide is the only resource you’ll ever need to pull off the moves you’ve dreamed of performing. Whether you ride street or vert, competitive or recreational, Mastering Skateboarding has you covered. Add this one-of-a-kind resource to your collection and you’ll soon be ready to put your new skills on display!

Skateboarding and the City

Skateboarding and the City
Author: Iain Borden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1472583485

Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.

Skateboarding and Religion

Skateboarding and Religion
Author: Paul O'Connor
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-10-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 3030248577

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

Hosoi

Hosoi
Author: Christian Hosoi
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062098535

A mix of Tony Hawk and Brian Welch comes together in skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi, who reveals everything about his rise, fall, and redemption, in this amazing tell-all—from being named the greatest skater of all time to bottoming out on drugs to finally finding redemption through God. Fans of Slater Kelly’s Pipe Dreams and Brian Welch’s Save Me From Myself, and followers of Tony Alva, Jay Adams, and Steve Caballero, will be captivated by this extraordinary, star-studded story, a gripping read that ranges from the heart of the 1980s skateboarding scene to the inside of a prison, from Hollywood parties to intense prayer sessions. Hosoi: My Life as a Skateboarder Junkie Inmate Pastor takes readers to the heart of one little-known world after another—and he portrays them in all their gore and glory for all the world to see.

Skateboard Tough

Skateboard Tough
Author: Matt Christopher
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2008-11-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316045802

As soon as Brett Thyson steps on "The Lizard", the mysterious skateboard he unearthed in his backyard, he can feel its power. It glides smoothly and effortlessly, but Brett can't shake off the feeling that there's something not quite right about it.