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Skater Girl
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

Skater Girl

Colorful introduction to skateboarding for girls.

Skate Girls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Skate Girls

The first skateboard parks opened in the 1970s. Since then, well-known female skaters such as Vanessa Torres and Elissa Steamer have competed in events to showcase their skills. Discover more about these talented women in Skate Girls, a Girls Rock! book.

The Business of Skateboarding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

The Business of Skateboarding

Describes skateboarding and its economic aspects.

Skateboarding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

Skateboarding

Describes the development of the sport of skateboarding and some of the skills, techniques, and personalities involved.

Competitive Skateboarding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

Competitive Skateboarding

This book explains the various types of skateboard competitions. It also serves as an instructional guide to aspiring pros on how to rise the ranks from regional contests to national to professional.

Skateboarding Between Subculture and the Olympics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Skateboarding Between Subculture and the Olympics

The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. Is the tightly-knit subculture in danger of losing its very identity? This anthology creates an analytical framework for understanding the fundamental conflict between skateboarding's core ethos and the tenets of institutionalized sports. Eleven acclaimed international authors from the fields of architecture, philosophy, sociology, sports sciences and gender studies provide a unique perspective on the manifold manifestations of skateboarding previously ignored by academic discourse.

Skateboarding and the City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Skateboarding and the City

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.

Skateboarding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Skateboarding

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international experts across a range of disciplines, such as sociology and philosophy of sport, architecture, anthropology, ecology, cultural studies, sociology, geography, and other fields. Part I critiques the ethos of skateboarding, its cultures and scenes, global trajectory, and the meanings it holds. Part II critically examines skateboarding in terms of space and sites, and Part III explores shifts that have occurred in skateboarding’s history around mainstreaming, commercialization, professionalization, neoliberalization and creative cities.

Skateboarding and Femininity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Skateboarding and Femininity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding’s relationship to gender politics through a consideration of the personal politics connected to individual skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through gendered tropes. Through the author’s work with skateboarding charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects, proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic practice perspective.

Skateboarding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Skateboarding

From skateboarding's distant origins in the 1940s to the heyday of the Z-Boys to Tony Hawk's lifelong and lucrative career as a professional skateboarding icon, this book showcases what skateboarding was in the past and what it's now evolved into. In the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple, idyllic child's pastime that originated in southern California to becoming a worldwide youth culture phenomenon. This now-mainstream action sport has spawned a multi-billion-dollar commercial market for skateboarding equipment, skateboard-related media and entertainment, as well as skate-inspired softgoods like clothing, shoes, and accessories; and it is likely to soon become an Olympic sport. Skateboarding: The Ultimate Guide is brimming with fascinating history and engaging stories from skateboarding's 60-odd year existence and evolution. Covering the action sport's origins, myriad breakthrough developments, pioneering heroes, both "street style" and "vert" or ramp skating, unique popular culture, and likely future, this book will delight anyone with an interest in this individualistic and compelling athletic pursuit.