A world-champion freestyle skateboarder traces the history of skating as well as the story of his own life, describing his family of overachievers, his father's disapproval of the author's skating ambitions, the disability that challenged his career, and his successes as an extreme sportsperson and
Behind the Scenes: Lords of Dogtown takes readers deep inside the making of this summer's hotly acticipated film, Lords of Dogtown, starring Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, and Heath Ledger. Set in the 1970s, the film tells the story of a group of teenage surfers from a neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in Venice, California. The "Z-Boys, ...
Serious skaters looking for unusual and innovative tricks will find them in this skateboarding instructional guide. The tricks run the gamut from classic old school to modern with an emphasis on diversification, creativity, and originality. Included are riding basics and tips for controlling fear, visualising, and focusing. Sequential shots detail ...
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 ...
Thrasher Presents How to Build Skateboard Ramps is the only book of skateboard ramp plans you will every need. Whether you're building a new ramp, adding on to an existing ramp or replacing an old ramp every thing you need to know is in here Packed with 76 pages of color photographs and detailed illustrations that make ramp construction safe and ...
An illustrated guide to skateboarding skills and techniques. Skateboarding is more than a sport; it is a passion and way of life driven by those who love to push the limits of gravity and inertia while bending the notions of social acceptability. The Skateboarding Field Manual addresses both the intricacies of the sport and the intangibles of ...
Taking place at real street locations, this photographic collection provides readers with the information necessary to take skateboarding abilities to a higher level of performance. Progression of style and technique in skateboarding has led to the cutting-edge use of real-world terrain such as curbs, stairs, and handrails. Beginning with ...
How is being a pro skater different from being, say, a professional golfer? Veteran skate journalist and former pro skater Sean Mortimer has interviewed the top skaters of all time to answer that question in different and hilarious ways. Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Rodney Mullen, Daewon Song, and Chris Haslam are handful of the skaters who opine on ...
Marking "Thrasher" magazine's anniversary, this jam-packed retrospective recounts skateboarding's twists and turns of the last two decades and offers a glimpse at its thriving future.
Stop skate harassment - build your own ramp! For nearly 20 years, Thrasher has been publishing and updating crucial ramp-building manuals used the world over by skaters who have taken the terrain in to their own hands and their own backyards. This year's edition has proved to be the most ambitious and successful endeavor to date, transforming the ...
Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero. He talks of being a super-competitive "demon" child who found peace while on a skateboard. With his story he can inspire a younger generation of fans to stand up for what they believe in and follow their dreams.
Providing updated and revised chapters on safety, equipment, and basic skills, this instructional guide discusses the fundamentals of skateboarding. Presented in a helpful question and answer format, beginners will find information on buying a first board, where to plant one's feet, how to stay safe while learning new stunts, and the history of ...
Skating journalist Weyland journeys to the early days of the sport, exploring its origins as a fringe subculture, then looking at how it has gone global, impacting art, fashion, and music in places as far apart as Germany and Cameroon.
Seventy million people watch extreme sports on ESPNUs X-Games. This volume includes interviews with top athletes in the world of extreme sports including Jeff Grell, Jimmy Scott, and Circe Wallace (snowboarding); Dave Duncan and Runbe Glifburg (skateboarding); Rick Thorne and T.J. Lavin (BMX).
From board maintenance and ollies to vert skating and grinds, this book uses bite-sized instructions and killer original photography to introduce young readers to the action-packed world of skateboarding. Full color.
For more than twenty years, "Thrasher "magazine has been the leading authority on skateboarders and their culture. Packed with hundreds of the most intense skateboarding photographs ever printed, "Insane Terrain "offers a view through the skater's eye, while supplying the necessary images to incite the imaginations of skateboarders everywhere. The ...
With sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to a performance cornerstone - the flip trick - benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. Often combined with curb tricks and applied to such obstacles as handrails and ramps, flip tricks are commonly used as the final touch on a more complex maneuver, and, with this guidebook, ...
From the street to the pipe and all the way to luge, Skateboard! gives kids some fantastic inspiration for extreme fun right in their own neighborhood. Skateboarding is becoming a BIG COMPETITION SPORT EXTREME SPORTS IN GENERAL ARE OF HIGH INTEREST TO KIDS. FUN TO READ with it's convenient size, spectacular photos, clear drawings, and engaging ...
A guide for beginner to advanced skateboarders featuring 37 action sequences of skills of progressive difficulty, and includes information on safety and falling; equipment; tips, tricks and techniques; jargon and more.
Skateboarding is a sport, a lifestyle, a pastime, a means of transport, and an ethos, but it lacks an accessible overview of the scene. Scarred for Life is a you-are-there look into the culture and practice of skateboarding, told through the lives and experiences of those who were there back in the day (as far back as the 1960s), are still there ...
The editors of Heckler magazine have assembled hundreds of photographs, copious interviews, and profiles of the most infamous, and not-so infamous, figures in skateboarding, snowboarding, and music of the eighties and nineties in a book that documents the formation of an independent era. They include the biggest names on the scene including: Jake ...
A study of the history and development of the sport of skateboarding and its surrounding culture. It includes information on techniques, equipment and clothing and it is illustrated with colour and black and white photography.
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