1. Skateboarding: 1950’s - Present By: Riley Sorley

3. The very first wave of skateboards were small surf boards on wheels.

5. During this period over 50 million skateboards were sold.

6. In 1965 a team of so-called experts deemed that skateboards were unsafe and urged parents not to buy them and stores not to sell them, the skateboard fad died almost as fast as it started.

8. 3 years after the “Kicktail” came out, new urethane wheels were introduced, allowing skaters to have more control and speed when skating.

9. With these new innovations skateboarding became more popular. Movies were coming out, shops were opening up and even the first SkateParks were being made.

11. People started to build their own wooden ramps in there backyard, also this is when “PoolSkating” started. People would skate empty swimming pools.

13. With all exposure skateboarding was getting people were finally accepting it as a sport and not a past time practiced by “rebels”.