2. SKATEBOARDS, TOOLS & SKATE-FASHION "The first skateboards were built in the late 1940s by California surfers. When the ocean was flat, they would ride the streets of the coastal communities on homemade wooden boards with wheels attached to the bottom.
The expansion of skateboarding as a global outdoor activity was especially felt and seen in the 1960s and 1970s.
The surfers of the asphalt created their own lifestyle, language, dress codes, and group hierarchies.
Skateboarding rapidly became a sociological phenomenon with a tight and long-lasting impact on music, visual arts, dance, and street culture."
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"Skateboarding is a poetry of motion." -Stevie Williams
"I live to ride and ride to live." -Ryan Sheckler
"Video games brought kids into skateboarding." -Tony Hawk
"When I skate, it's like my brain is turned off" -Valeria Figueroa
"Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly." -Bam Margera
"Don't let anything poison your individuality." -Rodney Mullen