| Skateboard shed its transport equipment image | | | | have been a reality but for the grip tapes |
| of the late 40s and 50s to become what it is | | | | now you find on the decks, which prevent you |
| today, the recreational tool. The early | | | | from slipping even as you takeoff. |
| skateboard championships were 'soap box | | | | |
| derbies' held in cities during that era of | | | | Did you know, what helped easy turning at |
| crude skateboards, which sometimes used to | | | | such high speeds? Of course you do your |
| double up as surf boards too. | | | | skillful 'foot work' but the rubber cushion |
| | | | in between the two part truck flexes when you |
| Skateboards as Sports Gear With mass | | | | turn by front foot while pressing by the back |
| production becoming a reality in the 1960s | | | | foot. It is this flexibility that gives you |
| skateboards underwent a lot of transformation | | | | additional turn which was harder in older |
| for better; from solid wood or metals to | | | | skateboards. |
| plywood for decks, flat no shape to | | | | |
| concavity, clay composite steel wheels to | | | | Skateboard Ramps If you are not on the |
| polyurethane made ones and finally single | | | | streets you are skateboarding on the ramps. |
| action trucks (axles) to aluminum constructed | | | | Ramps are carpentry constructions made in |
| two part trucks. There is so much more in the | | | | plywood. As you are aware, there are just as |
| safety, comfort and durability departments | | | | many ramp plans as you like and the simplest |
| that you need to look into when buying | | | | one is the obvious bank plan (flat plan), |
| skateboards. | | | | half pipe, quarter pipe, pyramid plans etc, |
| | | | all of which are named after their shapes. |
| Well, how do these things help? At first, the | | | | |
| question may strike an irrelevant chord, but | | | | Then you have the 'launcher' ramp for the |
| not so when you see the difference. Just | | | | lion hearted guys and girls. Skateboarding |
| taste this for samples: Without that | | | | over this launches you into the skies |
| innovative concavity would it have been | | | | vertically. If you don't want to fly, you |
| possible for those champion skateboarders to | | | | still have an option that interests you. You |
| takeoff from flat ground? Forget that for a | | | | can ride the walls with two identical ramps |
| minute, speeding along the streets wouldn't | | | | placed at a distance apart. |