Have you ever wondered who, why and how skateboarding was invented? Well, I will give you a little bit of history on the sport of skateboarding.

This sport started in the 50’s in California when the surfers wanted to bring surfing to the streets. So they got themselves a piece of wood and put some roller skate wheels on the bottom of the board and took surfing to the streets. There is no real proof of who was the true inventor of the skateboard. This has remained a mystery since the first skateboard was used and still remains a mystery.

When the surfers brought this new sport to the streets of course this new sport brought a lot of injuries to the surfers who were experimenting with developing this new and different sport. Skateboard manufactures started to make what is now called a “deck”. The deck is the actual board, now days it is made of fiberglass or pressed wood. This is to make the board lighter for the skater to do tricks.

This sport has come a long ways since the 1950’s. It wasn’t as popular then as it is now. Skateboarding still hasn’t stopped evolving, and skaters are coming up with new tricks all the time.

Boards are also continuing to evolve, as companies try to make them lighter and stronger, and try to improve on their performance. Skateboarding has always been about personal discovery and pushing oneself to the limit.

Throughout the years since skateboarding has been invented, this sport has gone from being popular to taking popularity dives every now and again. No matter what happens I think that skateboarding will always be with us as a extreme sport. This sport is always changing and will continue to change as time evolves.

So now the question remains, “Where will skateboarding go from here?”…Wherever the new age extreme skater takes it!