How Skateboarding Has Changed The World

In the past 20 years that skateboarding has been around, it has changed in a great manner than when it started. Skateboarding has influenced people worldwide, from continent to continent. And over the years it has been able to be influence people of all different types of race that has cause people to connect and come together and play a sport they love. “Skateboarding was a way for surfers to keep active when waves were flat so a group of surfers in California invented the skateboard” (Brooke, Michael). The first skateboards were made out of wooden boxes, or bands, with roller skates attached to the bottom. Crate scooters proceeded skateboards, they had wooden crates attached to the nose to form handle bars. Surfers referred to skating at this time as “Street Skating”. There are no definite dates on when skateboarding was made, but it is believed to
This goes to show us that from the early 1940s to present day skateboarding has took a big leap from just being a hobby surfaces did on their free time to being a worldwide sport that everybody can enjoy. From just being a thing people used to do on the streets and clowning around to having parks dedicated only to skateboarding. Also skateboards were only made out of big wooden boxes with roller skates wheels on the bottom and now they are made of flat boards with durable wheels at the bottom that allows them to do tricks. And the biggest change is how it came from just surfers to going worldwide to kids of America, out of America and all across the globe. In my opinion I believe skateboarding is an amazing sport because it’s free willed and you can do as you please, there isn’t a set rule for skateboarding you just have be you and be dedicated to the sport so you can better advance yourself. And that is how the skateboarding has developed over the