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Skateboarding
Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty-four skateboarding tricks, including old school, spine, and new school stunts, and includes an interview with skateboarder and coach Steve Badillo.
Skateboarding
Demonstrates famous skateboarding tricks performed by legendary riders such as Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, along with a brief history and step-by-step instructions for each trick.
Skateboarder's Start-Up
Briefly traces the history of skateboarding, safety guidelines, and the anatomy of a skateboard, and demonstrates basic skills and tricks.
Skateboarder's Start-Up
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 ...
Street Skateboarding: Flip Tricks
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, readers learn the basics of such tricks while progressing toward veteran moves. A section devoted to the history of skateboarding is included with an in-depth look at the individuals responsible for the creation of flip tricks and how they came to invent this aspect unique to skateboarding.
Street Skateboarding: Endless Grinds and Slides
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 instruction on how to properly negotiate curbs and escalating to the endless ways a skateboarder can maneuver up, over, and down the cement and asphalt that make up the urban and suburban landscapes, these step-by-step photographs will help skateboarders master the streets of the world.
Behind the Scenes
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, known for their fearless surfing style, took the death-defying moves they'd perfected on the water to the street - and in the process inventing the extreme stakeboarding style they became famous for. In creating this book, director Catherine Hardwicke worked closely with the cast and crew to provide as detailed a view of the making of the movie as possible. The result is a book that truly captures the energy of the set. It's filled with hundreds of amazing, never-before-seen photographs, and is packed with quick, easy-to-read information on everything from the story, to the actors, to the stunts featured in the film.
Skateboarding: Book of Tricks
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, visualizing, and focusing. Sequential shots detail every move needed to successfully re-create the various skateboarding tricks. The mechanics of the sport are also covered, including types of boards available, and the various wheels, bearings, and skateboarding surfaces.
Skateboarding: New Levels
Illustrated with 250 photos, this follow-up to "Skateboarder's Start Up" reveals what it takes to advance beyond the beginning level of skateboarding.
Extreme Skateboarding
Extreme sports have given traditional ones a run for their money in recent years, and few sports deliver like skateboarding. From street tricks to catching air in pools and on half-pipes, this book introduces and features several types of skateboarding. Budding enthusiasts, who may not have the means to participate in other sports, will benefit from tips on how to get started, proper equipment, safety, all alongside vivid imagery and selected profiles of the sport's luminaries. Diehard skaters and casual readers alike will enjoy this lively, practical primer on one of the fastest growing sports among young people.
