Skateboarding originated in the 1950s and grew in popularity in the early 1960s. The invention of urethane wheels improved skateboarding. The ollie is a fundamental trick where the board stays under the feet and is leveled in the air by popping the back foot and sliding the front foot. Popular tricks include kickflips, heelflips, and various grinds and flips. Stances include regular, goofy, and mongo. Proper landing technique is important to avoid injury.

1. Skateboarding
By: Brett Tracanna

2. Parts of a skateboard

3. History
• Skateboarding started in the 1950’s
• No exact date for when skateboarding was
invented
• Became very popular in the early 60’s
• Skateboard wheels began as just clay but then
urethane skateboard wheels were invented
which are what is used today

4. The ollie
•Board stays under feet
•Board is evened out in
the air
•Pop with back foot
•Slide front foot forward
as you jump
Slide up foot

5. Tricks
• Kickflip
• Heelflip
• 360 flip
• Lazer flip
• Varial kickflip
• Varial heelflip
• Pop shov-it
• Front shov-it
• indy
• Nollie
• Frontside
and backside
180
• Frontside
and backside
360
• Bigspin
• Bigflip
• Backside and
frontside flip

6. Landing Right
Don’t lean to far back
Don’t Lean to far forward
Land it on the bolts

7. Stances
• Goofy is where your left foot pops your tail
• Regular is where your right foot pops your tail
• Mongo is when you pedal with the same foot
you use to pop the board with

9. Myself

10. Sources
• http://www.awesome-
skateboard.com/SkateboardParts.html
• http://skateboard.about.com/cs/boardscience
/a/brief_history.htm
• http://www.skateboardhere.com/skateboard-
trick-list.html