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    Snowboarding Subculture

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    Part 3 Some statuses within snowboarding are Professional‚ Amateur‚ and Recreational snowboarders. Another status involved with snowboarding could be‚ a snowboarding instructor‚ or a ski lift operator (Mathews 2). People are socialized into snowboarding by hanging around their friends at their local hill‚ and by reading magazines‚ viewing websites‚ and watching snowboarding on television. The two most important agents of socialization are‚ as stated before‚ peers and the media. Your peers

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    Skateboarding Subculture

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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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    Essay On Skateboarding

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    Did you know that skateboarding came from surfing? That is why people call it “sidewalk surfing”.The very first skateboards were actually kinda like scooters‚ with roller skate wheels attached to a two by four. Once the scooter like piece was broken off‚ the skateboard was born.Skateboards started with the old clay wheels and now with some improvement‚ “In 1972‚ Frank Nasworthy invented urethane skateboard wheels‚ which are similar to what most skaters use today” (Cave). Urethane wheels was made

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    Skateboarding History

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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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    history of skateboarding

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    Today I am going to be talking about the history of Skateboarding. Skateboarding first appeared in the 1950’s. It started when California surfers wanted to surf when the waves were flat. Nobody really knows who invented skateboarding‚ people just had similar ideas. People would take the wheels off of roller-skates and attached to a two by four. They realized that skateboarding could recreate the feeling of riding a wave. It was during this time that modifications were made to the trucks making

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    History of Skateboarding

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    Skateboarding has rich history of innovation and is full of intriguing stories. Many of these stories are documented in this book in great detail. However‚ this essay will provide you with an overview of the last nine decades. The first type of skateboards were actually more like scooters. These contraptions‚ which date back to the early 1900’s featured roller skate wheels attached to a two by four. Often the wood had a milk crate nailed to it with handles sticking out for control. Over the next

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    deck was usually made out of wood or cardboard boxes. No one knows who exactly made the first skateboard‚ but there are several people claiming it was them‚ though there is no way to prove this for sure. Surfing became more and more popular and skateboarding became a way to “surf” on land. The Beginning of Skating Roller Derby‚ starting in 1959‚ produce many skateboards with metal wheels. A couple years later surfboard companies started making better quality skateboards using clay wheels and trucks

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    so frequently! Surely one of these sports should be eliminated leaving the other free of the menace. Well‚ I am here to tell you today that snowboarding is a short-lived dying culture and that all of the snow on our mountains should be used by the skiers! My first reason as to why snowboarding is a dying culture and skiing is far superior is that snowboarding is far more dangerous than skiing for many reasons. Firstly snowboarders have a much harder time stopping than skiers do. All a skier has to

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    The first time I flipped through a Thrasher magazine‚ I was drawn to the artwork and imagery of the ads as equally as the skateboarding itself. Skateboarding was unlike any other sport I had played up to that point. It was more like art than a sport‚ with each brand portraying a unique identity and style. And unlike a team name or logo in other sports‚ the artwork and messaging of each brand

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    Essay On Snowboarding

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    years old when my father strapped me into my first pair of skis‚ “Skiing is way more fun than snowboarding. Snowboarding isn’t even a real sport‚” he jokingly told me while putting on his own skis. Little did my father know I would later become a snowboarder at the age of twelve‚ following the example of my mother and two brothers. During my junior year at age sixteen‚ I joined the brand new snowboarding club at Blackfoot High School. Although the club only functioned for a year‚ I realized that small

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