Skateboarding

Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
ISBN: 1884654355
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
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.

Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
ISBN: 1884654797
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
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

Author: Doug Werner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781459601284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
A comprehensive guidebook that details dozens of spectacular skateboarding stunts, this resource combines invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each trick is captured in action sequence and captioned so that aspiring riders can learn how each trick is performed. A history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors, is also included. This blend of background and how-to ensures that riders not only learn the tricks but also gain respect for the legends that made skateboarding the worldwide passion it is today.

Skateboarding

Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
ISBN: 1884654193
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
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.

Skateboarding: Ramp Tricks

Author: Evan Goodfellow
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
ISBN: 1935937243
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Ramp tricks—skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipes—are a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs. A brief history of ramp skateboarding examines the birth of the genre as well as champions of the sport, including the pioneering Dogtown Crew and current stars Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk.

Skateboarding

Author: Edward Willett
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823938483
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Examines the history of skateboarding and discusses the techniques, tricks, safety gear, and maintenance of equipment.

Advanced Skateboarding

Author: Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 147778862X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Skaters who have mastered beginning and intermediate skills, along with veteran skaters, can benefit from the simple yet effective instruction offered in this book. The book covers detailed instructions for tricks and techniques to ride quarter-pipes, half-pipes, bowls, and to excel in both street skating and skate park skating, progressing through skill levels from low advanced to high advanced. It will help readers interested in upping their game become experts in no time, executing flawless manuals, stalls, and slides and impressing their friends with grabs, ollies, flips, and other tricks.

Mastering Skateboarding

Author: Per Welinder
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492582670
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
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

Author: Iain Borden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472583477
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
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.

Unofficial Tech Deck Skateboard Tricks

Author: Christopher Keller
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781791655471
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Ultimate Fingerboard Tricks, Tech Deck Style! Discover the latest tricks to practice and show-off to your friends with this legendary guide. Well over 50+ tricks to learn and implement in a small setting or publicly. Pop up Alley's, 360 kick flips, only the best tricks are hand selected to give your child a competetive edge. Don't miss out Simply click the ADD TO CART button at the top right of the screen.