Author : Jeffrey Knutson
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435850513
This book looks at some of the cottage industries that are spawned by skateboarding, including board design, skate magazine photographers, and pro skaters themselves.
Author : Holly Cefrey
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435853946
Describes skateboarding and its economic aspects.
Author : Steve Badillo
Publisher : Tracks Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1884654193
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.
Author : Veith Kilberth
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3839447658
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.
Author : Paul O'Connor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 3030248577
This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.
Author : Holly Cefrey
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435850505
Presents general information about preparing for and competing in skateboarding events.
Author : Patty Segovia
Publisher : Ulysses Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1569755426
Colorful introduction to skateboarding for girls.
Author : Iain Borden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1472583485
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.
Author : Steve Badillo
Publisher : Tracks Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1884654355
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.
Author : Tony Hawks
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1783526742
For more than twenty years, Tony Hawks has been mistaken for Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder. Even though it is abundantly clear on his website that he is an English comedian and author, people still write to him asking the best way to do a kickflip or land a melon. One mischievous day he started writing back in a pompous tone, goading his correspondents for their spelling mistakes and poor grammar, while offering bogus or downright silly advice on how to improve their skateboarding. Featuring entries on parents' pain, disappointment, underachievers, Quorn and the Vatican, this is his A to Z guide to the world of skateboarding, as seen through the eyes of someone who knows absolutely nothing about it.
