image creditSkateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. A report from 2002 found that there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world.
You may think skateboarding is a relatively new activity, but it was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board; it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time. Here arew some 1960s photos of skateboarding in the streets of New York. It's a German-language site but the pictures speak for themselves.
(via Everlasting Blort)The Presurfer
