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Why I Chose This Topic
I chose this topic mostly for the love of it, I can’t get enough skateboarding and everything about it. ... Also skateboarding is almost in my genes, my brother skated before me and my uncle skated before him. ... But by and large skateboarding to me is something I have to carry on; it drives me as a great challenge, one that I’ll never get bored of because its just such a broad and complex hobby, I will probably never be perfect but why not give it a shot.
I also chose this subject out of pure curiosity of the history of skateboarding before I started, my brother never told me how, who, or when it was started. ...
What I Already Knew
Although I have been skating for a year and a half, that still makes me in skateboarding preschool compared to some of the champs and veterans still skating today since the 60s’. ...
I know that long ago skateboarding was just converted from surfing, thus it’s first name, “Sidewalk Surfboard”. ... Surfers of Santa Monica or known as the “Z-Boys of Dogtown”, would find a flood drain and just ‘surf’ that until the waves were better, later on kids would just stop surfing and stay with skateboarding. ... What was the first shoe of skateboarding? ... When did skateboarding become recognized as a sport? ... Why does society have a grudge against skateboarding? Did music intertwine with skateboarding like it does now? Other than surfing why did people start skateboarding? ... And how has skateboarding changed since the beginning?
The Search
Wednesday, May 7th, 2003; Today I went to the Fort Defiance High School Library and looked at my first source, an article in the encyclopedia entitled Skateboarding, by Howard Reiser. ... Skateboarding began in the 1960s’ for surfers made by surfers to enhance their skill while the waves were down. ... “The skateboarder balances on the top of the deck in the manner of riding a snowboard or surfboard” “Skateboarding traces its origin back to the scooters made of wooden crates in the 20s’”. ... “Skateboarding first gained popularity in the late 1950s’ with the growth of surfing. ...
Monday, May 12th, 2003 I found a book produced in the 80s’ called Extreme Skateboarding Moves by Jeri Freimuth. ... “Few people knew about skateboarding until the 50s’. At that time, surfers in California helped make skateboarding popular. ... ”
Thursday, May 15th, 2003 I found several websites but most were just run-ons and don’t display any useful information, then I stumbled upon an old skater’s website about when he used to skate in the days of the dogtown, the author’s name was Corky Carroll, “I was there at the birth of skateboarding.
Approximate Word count = 2157
Approximate Pages = 8.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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