Study the facts. Decide what you think. Write an opinion essay. Extremely Dangerous Extreme Sports: Extreme sports are high-intensity activities that involve both speed and stunts. For kids‚ these activities include snowboarding‚ snowmobiling‚ skateboarding‚ BMX biking‚ skiing‚ and motocross. These sports pack big thrills. But they have also caused more than 4 million injuries since 2000. Many of these are simple fractures and cuts‚ but more serious injuries are disturbingly common. Two winters ago
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Cultural Awareness: Skateboarding I have selected to write the essay on the ever-changing culture of skateboarding. I have chosen this culture because I have seen the way that skateboarding and skateboarders has been viewed and perceived by our society change time after time with the changing generations. I have not only witnessed it myself‚ but in both research of the past and present history of the sport and culture there has been a 180 degree
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Skateboarding as a sport Another important discussion is whether skateboarding can be considered a subculture more than a sports activity wherein different subculture participate. As shown in some of the reports in the state of the art (Johns 2011; Van der Rijt et al. 2002) skaters were not significantly more involved in marijuana use than other cultures‚ but as Nielsen and co. found it is possible that participating in several subcultures that acknowledge a particular behavior make the individual
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Pro? 5. What caused these problems was the incoming competition of West 49 a large retail chain specializing in skateboarding and snowboarding equipment as well as clothing. 6. This organization provides skateboard and snowboard equipment as well as clothing shoes and accessories. 7. Skadurz Pro has created a unique product as they sell custom skateboards as well as unique skateboarding and snowboarding VHS and DVD movies that are often not available north of Toronto. In addition if the store does
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Unlike these other trends‚ however‚ it appears that skateboarding is here to stay. Q 1. What were some of the key characteristics of Vans’ earliest customers in the 1960’s and 1970’s? What was the public perception of skateboarding at this time? What was Vans’ competitive advantage at this time? What was its value proposition to customers? Answer: A skateboard is typically a specially designed plywood board combined with a polyurethane coating used for makes smoother slides and stronger durability
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on the back wheels (a 360 pivot)‚ high jumping over a bar (sometimes called a “Hippie Jump”)‚ long jumping from one board to another (often over fearless teenagers lying on their backs)‚ and slalom. In 1976‚ skateboarding was transformed by the invention of the first modern skateboarding trick by Alan “Ollie” Gelfand. It remained largely a unique Florida trick form 1976 until the summer of 1978‚ when Gelfand made his first visit to California. Galfand and his revolutionary maneuver caught attention
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Introduction Urban tribes are made up by groups of people – usually young‚ with a distinct common identity: the same aesthetic codes‚ the same identity symbols‚ the same rules‚ the same language‚ the same music… A whole ideology! These tribes have many different ideologies: right-wing‚ left-wing‚ non-political or against globalization. Some of them are nearly extinct‚ and others in full expansion. But all of them are ruled by it own ideology. They usually meet in central‚ commercial or nightlife
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access to a skate park because of the following reasons: 1. The skatepark will provide a safe place to recreate. A majority of the deadly accidents that happen to people while they’re skateboarding involve a motor vehicle. In towns and cities across the nation the most interesting terrain for skateboarding is found in the streets and sidewalks. The skatepark will be the safe place to skate but for it to be effective it must be more interesting than what’s out “in the wild.” 2. Skateparks‚
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Longboarding is an offshoot of street skating‚ but‚ like all board sports‚ its roots lie in surfing. Developed as a single sport on the west coast in the 1950s‚ by the 1990s‚ Longboards and Skateboards branched off into their respective disciplines. With the right setup‚ a longboard can give the feeling of surfing on hard smooth surfaces. There are a variety of riding styles: downhill‚ cruising and carving‚ slalom‚ dancing‚ freeriding‚ vert and sliding.[citation needed] A longboard generally can
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How to get the point across Depending on who you ask they will give you a different answer on to what is medium is best to get a point across. There are those who feel that threw a book you would have endless possibilities to your writing that can go into dept and give specif details that you could not get in a movie or a documentary. There are those movie buffs who believe that getting your purpose out through a movie is most beneficial because you get to visual see what is trying to be represented
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