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Sexual in skateboarding

Today, skateboarding may not be seen in that way so much. Skateboarding consider female as joke or object. In skateboarding community, people like to play a dirty joke on female and female is seen as an object to be making fun of. According to that, it make outsider see skateboarding community in a bad way such as skater like to see female as a sexual object and think that skateboarders are violence and use it to women because of that graphic on skateboard deck that mostly be hardcore artwork or sexual relate picture.

Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence, is, collectively, violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. Sometimes considered a hate crime, this type of violence targets a specific group with the victim's gender as a primary motive. This type of violence is gender-based, meaning that the acts of violence are committed against women expressly because they are women. The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states that:

"violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women" and that "violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men."

Violence against women can fit into several broad categories. These include violence carried out by "individuals" as well as "states". Some of the forms of violence perpetrated by individuals are rape; domestic violence; sexual harassment; coercive use of contraceptives; female infanticide; prenatal sex selection; obstetric violence and mob violence; as well as harmful customary or traditional practices such as honor killings, dowry violence, and female genital mutilation, marriage by abduction and forced marriage. Some forms of violence are perpetrated or condoned by the state such as war rape; sexual violence and sexual slavery during conflict; forced sterilization; forced abortion; violence by the police and authoritative personnel; stoning and flogging. Many forms of VAW, such as trafficking in women and forced prostitution are often perpetrated by organized criminal networks.

 There is an example case of skateboarding on women. A 15-year-old skateboarding star with a cult following on social media used his celebrity status to sexually exploit a 12-year-old girl, promising her meet-and-greets with A-listers and a part in a non-existent MTV special, cops said. Steven Fernandez, the YouTube skateboarder nicknamed “Baby Scumbag,” was arrested for committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14, Los Angeles police announced Thursday. Fernandez’s manager, 22-year-old Jose Barajas, and another professional skater, 27-year-old Keelan Lamar Dadd, were arrested on the same charges. “Fernandez and his buddies used his fame and brand to sexually exploit the very girls who made them rich and famous,” Ninette Toosbuy of LAPD’s West Valley Detective Division told CBS Los Angeles. Police said the trio picked up their 12-year-old victim on Nov. 13 while they were driving in Encino, Calif. Barajas was behind the steering wheel. The sweet-talking Fernandez allegedly promised to introduce the girl to celebrities and offered her a role in an upcoming MTV show — but only if she performed sex acts on him, Dadd and Barajas. The girl agreed, and performed the sex acts, TMZ reported.

 After the attack, they kept driving, searching for more victims.“The suspects tended to cruise the West San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, and Compton, looking for young girls to solicit,” Toosbuy told KTLA. Cops nabbed Fernandez and Barajas during a sting operation four days later. Cops pretended to be the victim and invited the two to an abandoned house for sex, where they were arrested. Dadd turned himself in on Dec. 3. Barajas and Dadd were released after they posted bail, while Fernandez was released to his mom’s custody. The teen was ordered to wear an ankle tracker.

 Eventhough, there are female professional skateboarder. When the company wants to promote her, the company do it in the sexual appeal way such as Leticia Bufoni.

Many teenager see skateboarding as a cool life style. According to that, it makes the young adult want to be like their idol skateboarder. Unfortunately, some professional skateboarders are violent, badass looking, careless, and like to pay dirty joke on women or seeing women as a sexual object. Most people will consider skateboarding as a fashion life style or toy for kids. We can see that on skateboard deck that usually have a sexual appeal for graphic. Skateboard graphic like to put a female picture on it in a sexual way. I think that one of the reasons that the skateboarding company made these graphic is the character of the professional skateboarder on their team. Many iconic professional skateboarders have careless badass look. In skateboarding, the professional skateboarder will have their name on their pro-board. The broad is what represent that skateboarder. Some kid buy the board because it has his favorite skateboarder name on it which later that kid would imitate their idol and become violence and see female object.

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5 things you should never say to skaters and 5 types of skater you will meet in college

 5 things you should never say to skaters

1. “You’re gonna break your neck!” or some variation.

You know what? I was planning on waking up today, grabbing a coffee, taking a shit and going out and breaking my neck. What have you contributed to this world by making that statement? Are you generally concerned for my safety? Does acting “responsibly” personally gratify you? Almost 100% of the time I have no idea who these people are at all to begin with. If you really care about me, buy me dinner or pay my mortgage.

2. “I used to skate.”

Oh you used to skate? We must have so much in common! I hardly like 80% of people that STILL skate, so it’s going to be a long shot if I give two shits about you. I understand that some people “grow up” and have families, lose interest, get injured, but If you’re over 35 and don’t have an awesome story about a legendary bowl, party, or skateboarder for that matter, spare yourself the embarrassment and keep your mouth shut. No one cares. If you’re under 35 and you’re wearing flip-flops, cargo shorts and mall-grabbing a Sector 9 don’t even speak to me.

3. “How do you do that?”

First of all are you kidding me? Do I look like I have time to teach someone who has no interest in skateboarding how to do a skateboard trick? Ask yourself these questions first:

Do you really want to understand the physics behind these sweet moves?

Are you generally interested in this or just trying to build a bond with your inner wild-man by living vicariously through me.

Most importantly, why do you even care? I don’t walk into your shitty office and ask you how to crunch numbers, say cool and walk away, so leave me alone.

4. “Can I see your board?”

Sure drunk dude outside of the bar at 2 a.m., you can see my board! This one’s a double-edged sword. I often let these people “see my board” and watch them do the pop-shuvit reverse body varial that everyone seems to go for immediately, or the really low crouch, touch hands on the ground to one-inch ollie. These moves often make it worthwhile. But if the subject in question is determined to land his trick, has his bros around or has consumed more than 4 drinks, it could take some time and your board and schedule could suffer the consequences.

5. “Do you know (insert famous professional here)”

Chances are that I may. We may have crossed paths while they were coming through Raleigh. I may have taken them to the biggest handrail in town, or the most elusive ledge spot. Are we friends? Probably not. So even if I’ve met said pro, it’s probably all the same that I didn’t because we’re not poking each other on Facebook. So hold your questions. Just because you play golf on the weekends I don’t assume you eat naan with VJ Singh.

  5 types of skater you will meet in college

1. The Jockboarder: Somewhere along the line, when skateboarding reached the X-Games and longboarding rose to popularity, jocks realized they wanted a piece of the action. They wanted to look edgy and cool but they were gonna do it their way. Their way, meaning sandals, boardshorts, a college sweatshirt and the biggest most horrendous longboard they could possibly buy at Zumiez.

2. The I Used To Skate Bro: These guys come in all shapes and sizes, but their primary goal is always the same: To tell you how much they totally used to skate. It’s always this long lost hazy memory like, “damn dude, yeah when I skated, I was so hyped on Chad Maska or whatever his name was, you know the white dude with the noseslides?!” Just in case that wasn’t annoying enough, don’t be surprised when they follow up with the inevitable, “yo lemmie try your board real quick,” to see if they “still got it.”

3. The Stoner: These guys usually ride a cruiser, longboard, or some old raggity water logged piece of shit because they were too busy spending their parent’s money on more weed. The smarter ones try to avoid any confrontation with actual skaters, or are too busy riding around campus to the next “chill sesh” blasting Phish or whatever jam bands these people listen to now a days.

4. The One Girl Skater: There’s always one of them: The girl that looks like she’s about to eat shit anytime she takes her foot off of the board and tries to push. To a horny young man this might seem like a dream come true, but most of these girls are either trying too hard or lesbians.

5. The Longboarder Who Thinks He’s A Skateboarder: This is the dude who thinks he can totally “get down” on your session . He starts by rolling up, powersliding and doing some wacky shit on all 4’s. Then he has to show you some scar from going 50 miles down the freeway without a helmet, proving how freaking gnar it was. Too bad you can’t do that on your “shortboard” bro.

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Lord of Dogtown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmXeGwbGVCE&t=2s

Lords Of Dogtown screenwriter Stacy Peralta has followed a curiously career circular path. He rose to fame as a member of the legendary '70s Zephyr skateboarding team and became a pioneering skateboarding-video director in the '80s before making a big splash with Dogtown And Z-Boys, an adrenaline-charged 2001 documentary about, um, the legendary '70s Zephyr skateboarding team and Stacy Peralta.

Stacy Peralta is an American director and entrepreneur. He was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the Zephyr Competition Team, also known as the Z-Boys from Venice, California.

In 2008, Peralta directed a series of television commercials for Burger King in which the Inuit people of Greenland, Transylvanians of Romania and Hmong of Thailand, known as "Whopper virgins" in the ads, were offered their first taste of a fast food hamburger and asked to compare the Whopper to McDonald's Big Mac. Peralta subsequently came under attack for what some deemed exploitation of native peoples.

Peralta's experience as an entrepreneur and skate demo filmmaker was adapted for the video game Tony Hawk's Underground. In 2003 Peralta also did cameo work in the game where he played himself.

It was a good documentary. As I wrote at the time, it answers a question I have long been curious about: How and why was the first skateboarder inspired to go aerial, to break contact with any surface and do acrobatics in mid-air? Consider that the pioneer was doing this for the very first time over a vertical drop of perhaps 15 feet to a concrete surface. It's not the sort of thing you try out of idle curiosity.

Now we have "Lords of Dogtown," a fiction film based on the very same material and indeed written by Peralta. Not only is there no need for this movie, but its weaknesses underline the strength of the doc. How and why Peralta found so much old footage of skateboarding in 1975 is a mystery, but he was able to give us a good sense of those kids at that time. Although Catherine Hardwicke, the director of "Lords of Dogtown," has a good sense for the period and does what she can with her actors, we've seen the originals, and these aren't the originals. Nobody in the fiction film pulls off stunts as spectacular as those we see for real in the documentary.

Catherine Hardwicke emphasize on speed and volume rather than character development, Lords Of Dogtown covers the rise and fall of a team that revolutionized competitive skateboarding with its sneering attitude, technical innovations, and hard-partying charisma.

The story line remains the same. The kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive Malibu area. The beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. One day, Skip Engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "They grip." With the additional traction, the Z-Boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. Then comes a brainstorm: Because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. The kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.

Emile Hirsch stars as Jay Adams, Tony Alva is played by Victor Rasuk and John Robinson plays Stacy Peralta, who with his long blond hair gets photographed a lot in the emerging skateboarding magazines. They all seem like pale imitations of the originals, as indeed they must be. Heath Ledger plays Skip, their mentor, who sponsors the Zephyr Team, gives them their first priceless T-shirts and eventually, stoned and drunk, ends up making surfboards in somebody else's back room. But he was the catalyst. The film shows where the skater career path is going. Stacy, Jay and tony all have different path after they left Zephyr team.

In the documentary, there was a Z-Girl along with the Z-Boys, but here all we get is Nikki Reed as Kathy, Tony's sister. We also meet Rebecca De Mornay, as Jay's mother who look like all mothers in Southern California films, looks like she oughta be in pictures. Both the surfing and skateboarding sequences are fun to watch, within reason, but after seeing "Dogtown and Z-Boys" and the haunting surfing documentary "Riding Giants" (2004), we know the real thing is more awesome. The best surfing scenes take place when surfers ride waves dangerously close to the Pacific Island Pier and the rocks at its base; when the pier mysteriously burns down that summer, Skip mourns, "They wanted it gone."

Skateboarding is a sport combining grace, courage and skill, and here we see it being born. What we do not quite understand is how long one can be a skateboarder before you feel like you've been there and done that. Stacy Peralta obviously feels great nostalgia for that period in his life, which was the foundation for fame and fortune, but at this point it is either a time for him to move on to films about something else, or deal with the dark aftermath of those golden days. There were a lot of drugs around; although we see Skip here as a survivor, he's more of a victim. And like the earlier movie, this one doesn't really deal with injuries or accidents. In a sport where you can free fall to concrete, were there deaths? Was anyone paralyzed? There's a touching scene here where the kids take a friend in a wheelchair into one of the empty swimming pools and let him ride the sides a little, but he's in the chair because of cancer, not skateboarding. It would be better, if we see some skater injure and can’t walk anymore. Overall, the film is quite successful in the skateboarding community’s perspective. We can say that almost every skater have seen the film and many skateboarder started skate because of the film and look the character in the film as their role model.

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John Cardiel’s Life

John Cardiel was born on December 14, 1973. He is a professional skateboarder who has been a core member of the AntiHero Skateboards company since it was founded in 1995. Cardiel was born in San Jose, California, United States (US), and grew up in Half Moon Bay, US and Grass Valley, California, US.

As of August 2012, Cardiel's sponsors are Vans, AntiHero, Spitfire, Independent Truck Company, Freshjive, and Chrome Industries.

AntiHero is a board company that was founded by professional skateboarder, Julien Stranger, in 1995, following a proposition from Jim Thiebaud (co-founder and owner of Deluxe Distribution), who is reported—by Jake Phelps, editor-in-chief of Thrasher magazine—to have offered Stranger the opportunity during a period of time when both Stranger and Phelps perceived skateboarding as "stale". Stranger has explained the original concept that underpinned AntiHero in the following manner: "Oh, there was no concept ... well, maybe there was, I don't know. Just kind of balance out the rest, or something, with what was going on with us."

Cardiel and Stranger first met at an amateur skateboarder contest that was held at the Powell skateboards warehouse—the contest was held around 1990/1991.

In 1992, John Cardiel got Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year Award. Cardiel is known as one of the most aggressive style, skating big things and taking big slams.

One of his famous slam is when he skated like a 20 feet long hand rail, and then he gets stuck and flew down face first. There is a famous photo of his face with the blood coming out of the eyes or eyes’ suck.

 In the fall 2012 catalogue release of AntiHero, Cardiel's signature skateboard decks are included in the same series as the currently active riders.

In 2004, at the end of a four-week Australian road trip from Brisbane to Melbourne (the touring skateboarders were filming for the skateboard movie, Tent City), Cardiel was running alongside a van when he was hit by the trailer the van was pulling and then run over by the trailer. Cardiel consequently sustained a spinal cord injury and Cardiel and his mother were informed by the treating medical staff that he would not be able to walk again; however, following five months of hospital-based rehabilitation and six to twelve months in a wheelchair, Cardiel regained the use of his legs.

 After a hiatus, Cardiel was featured in the 2008 street fixed gear cycling film Macaframa, directed by Colin Arlen and Colby Elrick. Cardiel attributes his recovery to cycling and continues to be an advocate of street fixed gear cycling.

In a 2011 interview with Australian skateboarding magazine SLAM Cardiel explained that, since recovering from the Australian accident, he has purchased a set of turntables and a mixer for playing music and will perform at events—Cardiel has also supported fellow professional skateboarder/musician Ray Barbee during the latter's musical performances. Cardiel further stated, "At one point I'd like to open a skate shop and bike shop, but I don't have the time right now." As of February 2013, Cardiel owns and operates a business named "Break Free Customs" that primarily sells custom bikes—built by Cardiel himself—in addition to skateboard decks, stickers, and shirts.

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Jerry Hsu

Born December 17, 1981 is an American professional skateboarder and photographer. He was described by professional skateboarder and longtime friend Marc Johnson as a "cool breeze" in 2013.

As of 2007, Hsu's family home remains located in San Jose, California, United States (U.S.). Hsu's family is originally from Taiwan, and his parents speak both English and Mandarin Chinese. Hsu explained in 2010 that his Chinese-language fluency is akin to a "third grader."

Hsu commenced skateboarding in the early 1990s and he explained what he was attracted by in a 2013 interview: "I remember the reason I started skating was because I saw these kids with green hair and big pants and they looked so stupid, and I wanted to be that." His mother brought home a discarded concrete parking block during his early period of skateboarding and he later regarded the gesture as "very thoughtful."

Hsu's first skateboard deck sponsor was Maple, where he was a team member alongside Johnson, who facilitated his recruitment, Louie Barletta, Chad Bartie, and Chad Knight, among others. After he joined Maple, Hsu appeared in a promotional video for the northern California retail outlet NC Board Shop's clothing line, called "NC Clothing," alongside other sponsored riders, such as Gershon Mosely and Pancho Moler. Released in 1996, Montage runs for a duration of 30 minutes and also indicates that Hsu was sponsored by a brand named "Sutters" at the time.

The first Maple advertisement announcing Hsu's professional status with the brand was published in 1999, when he was 17 years old, and featured the tag line: "Not another brick in the wall." Hsu appeared in the 1999 Maple video Black Cat, which also featured Johnson and Barletta. Around the same period, Hsu was first sponsored by the Osiris Shoes company, which had rebranded itself after it was first launched as "Evol Casuals" during the preceding two years.

Although he was not yet a professional for Osiris, Hsu appeared in the 1999 Osiris video The Storm. His video part garnered attention for a never-before-seen trick that became known as a "Storm flip," in which the skateboarder performs a "nollie hardflip," combined with a 180-degree body rotation and "late flip" (a nollie trick is executed at the front end of the skateboard). In a May 2013 interview, Hsu explained that he is still asked to perform the trick on a frequent basis, but he tries not to perform Storm flips, as they are "too busy" and he feels embarrassed. Hsu also said that he enjoyed this time period with Osiris, as he was able to constantly travel, including international trips, and participate in the benefits that the company was reaping from market success.

Hsu membership of the Tilt Mode Army was first revealed in 2000 with the release of the inaugural TMA video Tilt Mode! Described as a group of skateboarder friends from the San Jose, California area, TMA's membership also consists of Johnson, Barletta, Matt Eversole, Steve Caballero, and Jose Rojo.

Prior the dissolution of Maple, Hsu joined the enjoi company, which had been started by Johnson, who recruited both Barletta and Hsu, as they were all close friends at the time. Hsu explained that Johnson was primarily interested in Barletta to begin with, but Hsu was later included as part of a "package deal." Regarding Hsu's recruitment, Johnson said in a 2013 interview: "We stole the fuck out of this guy."

Commencement on the production of the inaugural full-length enjoi video commenced after Johnson's departure in 2003. Entitled Bag Of Suck, the video was released in 2006 and features a two-section part from Hsu as the conclusion. With a duration of just under eight minutes, the first section of the part is accompanied by Cass McCombs's "Sacred Heart", while Sonic Youth's cover version of The Carpenters' song "Superstar" is used for the second section. Hsu also joined the Ricta skateboard wheel team during the same year.

2013 Jerry Hsu Leaves Enjoi and joins Chocolate

New York La La La, a fashion video directed by Aaron Rose and featuring Hsu, was published on the Nowness website on September 25, 2013. Alongside fellow professional skateboarders Austyn Gillette and Josh Harmony, Hsu was dressed in designer garments for the short film, and a portrait of the three was photographed by L'Officiel Hommes editor André Saraiva.

In September 2013, Hsu announced his departure from the enjoi brand. Hsu explained in an interview that was published on October 12, 2013, that his decision was spurred by the departure of longtime brand manager Eversole who, according to Hsu, grew tired of protecting the brand from the profit-driven demands of shareholders. Barletta will take Eversole's place as enjoi's brand manager and Hsu stated: "Louie understands what enjoi is all about, so I think they can still make something really great and I wish them the best." Hsu later clarified that he received "generous" paychecks while he was with enjoi and his teammates, whom he respects "very much," were not a factor in his decision, which took a long time to make. He also revealed that the discussions about his departure mostly involved just himself and Barletta, and those conversations were "emotional and shitty" for him.

On November 12, 2013, a video was published on the Crailtap YouTube channel, the official channel of the Girl Distribution Company, in which Hsu is officially revealed as the new professional for Chocolate Skateboards, a sub-brand of Girl. The video skit features Johnson, Mike Carroll, Stevie Perez, Elijah Berle, and Gino Ianucci. Hsu explained in an interview why he wanted to join the Chocolate team: "It’s a family. When I walk into Rick [Howard]’s office and there are printouts of graphics on the floor and he’s hand picking them, I know this is where I wanna be."

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Andrew Reynolds Biography

Andrew Michael Reynolds (born June 6, 1978) is a professional street skateboarder. He is the co-founder and owner of Baker Skateboards; a part owner of Brigada Eyewear; a partner in Bakerboys Distribution (distributors of Baker Skateboards, Shake Junt, Deathwish Skateboards, Heroin Skateboards, Palace Skateboards, Hammers Skateboards, Death Lens, and Ashbury Eyewear), and head designer at Altamont Apparel.

 Reynolds was a competitor in the 2014 Street League Skateboarding (SLS) contest series and finished with an overall ranking of 25.

Andrew Michael Reynolds (born June 6, 1978) is a professional street skateboarder. He is the co-founder and owner of Baker Skateboards; a part owner of Brigada Eyewear; a partner in Bakerboys Distribution (distributors of Baker Skateboards, Shake Junt, Deathwish Skateboards, Heroin Skateboards, Palace Skateboards, Hammers Skateboards, Death Lens, and Ashbury Eyewear), and head designer at Altamont Apparel.

Reynolds was a competitor in the 2014 Street League Skateboarding (SLS) contest series and finished with an overall ranking of 25.

Reynolds emerged in the skateboarding scene in the early 1990s. Following a phone call from professional skateboarder and ex-Bones Brigade member Tony Hawk, Reynolds joined the Birdhouse (Hawk's company) skateboard team; Reynolds has stated that Hawk contacted Reynolds with little knowledge about the latter's skateboarding.

In 1998, Reynolds was featured in the fourth Birdhouse video The End, with a section of his footage from the Bro Bowl in Tampa.

In 1999, Reynolds left Birdhouse and started the Baker brand with Jay Strickland; the company was named after a lifestyle in which a person "gets baked" (smokes and experiences the effects of the drug cannabis) and skateboards every day.

The company parted ways with Blitz and, in 2007, Reynolds and fellow professional skateboarders, Jim Greco and Erik Ellington, established Bakerboys Distribution to distribute the Deathwish brand—Baker's distribution was then newly managed by Bakerboys in 2011. As of July 2014, Bakerboys distributes seven brands, some of which are owned by past and current Baker riders. These companies are:

Baker Skateboards

Shake Junt

Brigada Sunglasses

Deathwish Skateboards

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Heroin skateboards

Palace skateboards

Hammers

As of July 2016, the Baker team consists of: Reynolds, Riley Hawk, Bryan Herman, Dustin Dollin, Don "Nuge" Nguyen, Terry Kennedy, Sammy Baca, Justin "Figgy" Figueroa, Cyril Jackson, Dee Ostrander, Tristan Funkhauser, and Theotis Beasley. Former riders include Kevin "Spanky" Long, Braydon Szafranski, Jeff Lenoce, Shane Heyl, Jim Greco, Erik Ellington, and Leo Romero

As of November 2014, Reynolds has released eleven signature shoe models with skateboarding shoe company Emerica: The Reynolds 1, The Reynolds 2, The Reynolds 3, The Boss, The Reynolds Light, The AR Slim, Reynolds Cruisers, The Reynolds Classics, The Reynolds, The Reynolds low and the Reynolds Low Vulc.

In 2006, Reynolds collaborated with Sole Technology, the owner of the Emerica shoe brand, on the joint skateboard clothing venture Altamont Apparel. During the launch event, held at the Altamont Speedway car-racing venue, Reynolds stated that he had been inspired by the spirit of rebellion and freedom that had defined the Rolling Stones concert at the speedway in 1969. For the launch, a select group of retailers, journalists, and members of the skateboarding community were driven in limousines to the Altamont Speedway, where they listened to Reynolds speak about the brand and participated in the brand's launch.

As of October 2014, Reynolds is sponsored by Baker Skateboards, Spitfire Wheels, Altamont, Brigada, Independent, Shake Junt, Emerica, Stance, and Nixon.

 "Madness"

Called "Madness" by Reynolds himself, the skateboarder experiences a "condition" while skateboarding that has been perceived as a mild form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), even though an official diagnosis has not been confirmed. In a 2007 episode of the online show "Epicly Later'd" the Vice YouTube channel depicted an example of the "Madness" while Reynolds was filming a trick in San Francisco, California.: "And he's gonna walk right up to the top and tap the wall three times. And then he comes and checks it [the area where the trick is being performed] again. He's gonna say, 'Lance, Beagle, Mike' ... ready? 3 times.

Reynolds explained in the Vice interview:

Like, before I go to bed at night, I go to the door, and I, and I, I lock it ... nine times, but, like, three, three, three; three, three, three; three, three, three; and I do that ... three times. And, then, sometimes I'm lying' down, and I'm, like, "Did I do it?", and I go back. And then it's, like, once I do that, then it has to be the nine, the whole thing—three, three, three, three, three, three—three time. And, then, if I messed up and did it, then I have to do that whole thing three times. You know what I mean?

 As part of the DVD release of the Emerica video Stay Gold, a bonus section on the "Madness" was included. While watching footage of his pre-trick behaviour, Reynolds states, "I don't know what I'm doing right here. Ha ha. I don't know. Like, if you would've told me, if someone would've told me, 'You rolled up, without trying a noseslide, twenty times, or thirty times, I woulda said, "Nuh. You're wrong."Professional skateboarder and teammate Jerry Hsu explained in the same video:

 Well, lately, he's been, like, really, like, he's really into being healthy, and exercising, like, I'm rooming with right now, and it's, like, we're in, like, a gym; the room is like a gym, where he's just constantly eating bananas, and, like, only healthy stuff, and he's stretching all the time, and, like, it's only to get tricks. Like, that what he says. He's just, like, "I just gotta do whatever I can to get tricks." Do everything he possibly can to do it just the way he pictured it. He's, like, totally obsessive about it and it's, like, really rad; I like it.

In December 2011, Reynolds was identified as the tenth most influential skateboarder of all time by Transworld Skateboarding magazine.

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Jay Adams (The Legendary and the Most Iconic Skateboarder)

Jay Adams was an American skateboarder who as a teen was the youngest member of the Zephyr Competition Skateboarding Team (Z-Boys). His spontaneous freestyle skateboarding style, inspired by ocean surfing, helped innovate and popularize modern skateboarding. His aggressive vertical tricks make him one of skateboarding's most influential stylists. Jay is also known for this famous quote, ‘you didn’t quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.’

Jay Adams was born in a part of Venice, California, known to locals as "Dogtown." He grew up with his mother and his stepfather, Kent Sherwood. He began skating and surfing at the age of four. Sherwood worked at Dave Sweet's Surf Shop under Pacific Ocean Park, where Adams was introduced to skateboarding. Adams' skateboarding was greatly influenced by Larry Bertlemann, a professional surfer known for dragging his hands along the waves as he rode them.The Z-Boys became a skate team when they heard about the Bahne-Cadillac Del Mar Nationals in 1975. Adams was the first member to enter the competition, held in Del Mar, California, taking second place in the Junior Men's Freestyle. His explosive energy and low, bold, surf-like moves characterized the style of the Z-Boys and contrasted with the traditional style of the era, which was still based around gymnastic-style tricks formulated in the 1960s.  Adams' ability to turn near-disasters into never-before-seen feats of style and agility was termed "an athletic stream-of-consciousness" by the 2001 documentary about the team, Dogtown and Z-Boys.

Much of Adams' and the rest of the Zephyr team's fame are due to photo-journalist and writer Craig Stecyk's "Dogtown articles" in the 1975 relaunch of Skateboarder Magazine. The series of magazine articles chronicled the adventures of the Z-Boys, who rode empty swimming pools in Southern California over a two-year period, laying the foundation for vertical skateboarding. The international reach of Stecyk's Dogtown articles and skateboard-industry sponsorship led to skateboarding becoming a viable profession. By age 15, Adams was one of the first skateboarders shown catching air above the edge of a swimming pool. The Zephyr team broke up shortly after the Del Mar Nationals. Half the team formed a new team under Adams' stepfather Kent Sherwood, who made the Zephyr boards. Sherwood and Adams created the brand and team EZ-RYDER, which changed its name to Z-Flex six months later. Adams was the face of the brand.

During his skateboarding career, Adams was sponsored by Hurley, Nixon, Osiris Shoes, Z-Flex, Tracker Trucks, Vercelli Surfboards, Carver Racks, Abec 11 wheels and Black Flys. Along with Jef Hartsel, Adams would go on to revive EZ-RYDER as EZ Ryder Originalz, custom designing and testing their handcrafted equipment. He collaborated with Z-Flex, designing boards in the Z-Flex range, most notably the Z-Flex Jay Adams Cruiser Skateboard.

According to former Z-Boys teammate Stacy Peralta, Adams "is probably not the greatest skater of all time, but I can say without fear of being wrong that he is clearly the archetype of modern-day skateboarding. He was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2012.

Adams is featured prominently in the 2001 Peralta-directed documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys. Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan noted his contribution to the film: "Dogtown is at its dramatic best with mini-profiles of its two biggest names, Adams and Alva. The Adams segment especially, which shows the most naturally gifted of the Z-Boys regretful about the bad choices he made in his life, provides the kind of thoughtful introspection this film could have used a lot more of." The documentary won awards at Sundance and an Independent Spirit Award.

Adams was portrayed by Emile Hirsch in the 2005 dramatized feature-film account of the Z-Boys origins, Lords of Dogtown, written by Peralta and directed by Catherine Hardwicke. He was also featured in Joshua Pomer's 2010 surf documentary The Westsiders.

Adams spent time in prisons as he struggled with drug addiction. In 1982, he was charged with murder but convicted of assault following a fight he instigated with a gay couple in Los Angeles which led to the death of Dan Bradbury. Adams served six months in prison for the assault.

In the late 1990s, after the murder of his brother, and the death of his mother, father, and grandmother all in the same year, he began using heroin. He was serving two-and-a-half years on drug charges in Hawaii during the production of Dogtown and Z-Boys and was released in 2002. The movie brought Adams back into the limelight and led to endorsement deals for him.

As of 2005, Adams was drug-free and spoke to children at local schools about his past struggles. Nonetheless, in November 2005, he was arrested and sentenced to four years, after being caught on a wiretap acting as a go-between for a buyer and seller of crystal methamphetamine. He was released to a halfway house on July 8, 2008 for the remainder of his sentence. He completed his probation in January 2014.

Adams' first wife was Alisha Adams, with whom he had a daughter, Venice. He also has a son, Seven, with ex-girlfriend Samantha Baglioni. Adams married Tracy Adams in 2011. They most recently resided in San Clemente, California, where Adams was an active member at a local church.

Adams died of a heart attack on August 15, 2014. A memorial funeral service was held in honor of Adams at Venice Beach, California, on August 30, 2014. Surfers and skateboarders from across the country showed their respect by taking part in a traditional Hawaiian-style paddle-out tribute. A memorial skate session was held for Adams at the Venice Beach Skatepark by fellow skateboarders Tony Alva and Christian Hosoi.

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Z-Boys History

The Zephyr Competition Team (or Z-Boys) was a group of skateboarders in the mid-1970s from Santa Monica and Venice, California. The aerial and sliding skate moves that the Z-Boys invented were the basis for aerial skateboarding today.

The crew, who began as a surf team, derived their name from the Zephyr surfboard shop in Santa Monica. Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk opened the Santa Monica shop as Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions in 1971. The Z-Boys represented the shop in surf competitions, with the first member being fourteen-year-old Nathan Pratt. Pratt also worked at the shop and became an apprentice surfboard maker under Ho, Engblom and Stecyk.

 In 1974, Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Chris Cahill and Stacy Peralta, joined the surf team. The place that the team spent most of their time surfing was the Cove at Pacific Ocean Park. Once a thriving amusement park atop a pier, POP was now abandoned, run down and nicknamed "Dogtown" by the locals. With large tilted, wood pilings jutting from the water, and not enough room for everyone who wanted to surf there, the Cove was an incredibly dangerous place to surf.[citation needed] The Z-Boys surfed it anyway, the hazardous conditions only driving them on. They would surf in the mornings, when the waves were the highest. At that time, the Z-Boys saw skating as a hobby, something to do after surfing, but it quickly grew from a hobby into a new way to express them.

In 1975, Cahill, Pratt, Adams, Sarlo, Peralta and Alva asked Jeff Ho and Skip Engblom to start a skate team separate from the surf team. Soon after, local skaters Bob Biniak, Paul Constantineau, Jim Muir, Peggy Oki, Shogo Kubo and Wentzle Ruml would join the Zephyr skate team, growing to 12 members in all. The team would practice a lot of the times at Bicknell Hill. Bicknell Hill ran straight down from the Jeff Ho and Zephyr Surfboard Productions shop. There, the Z-Boys would set up cones and practice all day. They would skate low, riding the concrete like they were riding a wave and drag their hands on the pavement like Larry Bertlemann, a professional surfer who would touch the wave when surfing, dragging his fingers across it. To the Zephyr team, style was everything and they pulled all their inspiration from surfing. There were also four grade schools in the Dogtown area that the team picked for skating because they all had sloping asphalt banks in their playgrounds. Soon, the Z-Boys were carving real waves in the morning and asphalt the rest of the day.

 The first big skateboarding competition since the 1960s, the famous Del Mar Nationals, was held in California in March 1975. This is where the Z-Boys made their debut and reached California cult status. Their low, aggressive style was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. It was a far cry from the upright, freestyle skating that was popular in the 1960s. The older skateboard establishment was not ready for the aggressive surf style and free spirited approach that the Z-Boys exhibited, but the crowd loved them. At the end of the Del Mar competition, half of the finalists were members of the Zephyr team, including Peggy Oki, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, and Nathan Pratt. Many of the older skaters could not comprehend that they had just witnessed a revolution in skateboarding. Within twelve months of the Del Mar Nationals, the 1960s upright, freestyle type of skating vanished from the public eye, and Z-Boy style would sweep the nation, then the world.

The mid-1970s brought a major drought to Southern California that parched Los Angeles. This drought brought on severe water restrictions, forcing many pool owners in the well-to-do neighborhoods to leave their swimming pools drained. The Z-Boys took their surf style of skating to the empty pools. This was the birth of vertical skating, and it became the basis for skateboarding and many of the extreme sports seen today. One day during a skating session in the fall of 1977 in a pool nicknamed "the Dogbowl" in Santa Monica. Tony Alva pushed more and more on the coping until his board completely cleared the edge of the pool and landed back in the pool, completing the very first aerial. Many of the tricks performed on skateboards, and later snowboards, wakeboards, rollerblades and BMX bikes, would be performed in midair from that point on. The Z-Boys and their "Dogtown" style revived skateboarding, which had been on a major down-hill slump since the mid-1960s.

 While surfing is what brought the Zephyr team together, skateboarding is what pulled them apart. As the members of the Z-Boys became more and more famous, it was hard to keep them together, as companies bigger than Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions were throwing huge sums at money at the kids. Jeff Ho tried to keep the team together but couldn't compete with the money his team members were being offered, and in early 1976, he and Skip Engblom ended their partnership. Engblom ended up moving to Hawaii, and by the end of that year, the Zephyr shop closed. Z-Boy Nathan Pratt took over the shop and reopened it under his Horizons West label in 1977.

Original crew:

Adrian Reif

Allen Sarlo

Bob Biniak (June 2, 1958 - February 25, 2010)

Chris Cahill (December 5, 1956 - June 24, 2011)[2]

Jay Adams (February 3, 1961 - August 15, 2014)

Jim Muir

Nathan Pratt

Peggy Oki

Stacy Peralta

Tony Alva

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History and Evolution of skateboarding

1950s

Surfers in California get the bright idea to surf concrete and invent Skateboarding. The origin of the first skateboard has never been proven as it seems to have been the spontaneous invention of multiple people. Wooden boards with roller skate wheels slapped on the bottom where the makings of the original boards these pioneers took to the streets. Could you imagine the looks on the faces of people seeing this for the first time? Long haired shaggy surfer duded ripping up the streets on 2×4’s and roller skate wheels! The world ‘Radical’ comes to mind in such true original form.

1960s

By 1963 Skateboarding was all the rage. Popularity of the sport was at its peak. Companies such as Jack’s, Hobie, and Makaha started having real competitions consisting of Downhill Slalom and Freestyle where skaters like Torger Johnson, Woody Woodward and Danny Berer paved the way for future skaters. Then in 1965 for some reason Skateboarding seems to simply die. Considered to be a fad that came and went, skateboarding seemed to fade overnight. Some few stayed true to the sport and continued to create homemade boards and fine tune their craft. One of the reasons I suspect skateboarding loosing some of its ground was the fact that the sport was very dangerous. The clay wheels they used were everything but safe and lead to many injuries.

1970s

Then like all things, in a moment, everything changed for skateboarding. The invention of urethane wheels by Frank Nasworthy in 1972 made it possible for skateboarding to make its comeback. He started the company Cadillac Wheels. In 1975 skateboarding got the boost it needed. In Del Mar, California a slalom and freestyle contest was held at the Ocean Festival. That day, the Zephyr team showed the world what skateboarding could be. They rode their boards like no one had in the public eye, low and smooth, and skateboarding was taken from being a hobby to something serious and exciting. The Zephyr team had many members but as some of you might know the most notable of them where Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Stacy Peralta. Then in 1978 Alan Gelfand (nicknamed “Ollie”) invented a maneuver that gave skateboarding another revolutionary jump. He would slam his back foot down on the tail of his board and jump, thereby popping himself and the board into the air. The ollie was born, a trick that completely revolutionized skateboarding. At the end of the 1970s skateboarding took another hit when the public skateparks that were being built suffered from the outrageously hight insurance rates due to the danger factor of skateboarding.

1980s & 1990s

Skateboarding continues to grow as the anti-establishment subculture that we all know it as. Skateboarders had become hell bent on progressing their passion for the sport so they started building there own ramps in their backyards. It’s no secret that this became a problem for local construction companies when they started to notice their lumber was disappearing. But lets not forget that construction companies where part of the establishment so to hell with them they thought. Aside from the ramps they built in their backyards to skate on they saw the whole world as there skatepark and took to the streets. During this time many new board shapes took form allowing for skaters to overcome obstacles otherwise impossible. Another invention in the 1980s played a major roll in skateboarding history. The intention of VHS. Stacey Peralta and George Powell’s Bones Brigade team starts recording skateboarding videos that will reach kids all over the world. The team included Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Rodney Mullen, Stacy Peralta, and Kevin Staab. This is the team responsible for The Bones Brigade Video Show.

2000s & Now

Skateparks pop up everywhere and skateboarding video games lets every kid be a skater. Tons of companies emerge and become more and more acceptable in society. The notion of skateboarders being criminals starts to dwindle. The X-Games continues to become more and more popular with Skateboarding at the helm. One of the big factors today that makes skateboarding so huge is the fact that pros make real money. Wining events can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Kids are realizing that you don’t have to become a doctor or lawyer to make a buck. Skateboarding has also played a big role in fashion earning its place among the masses. Companies like Diamond Supply Co, Hurley, Vans, and RVCA all making millions off the skateboarding lifestyle.

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Skateboard Company

Birdhouse

Birdhouse Skateboards (originally Birdhouse Projects) is a skateboard company formed by ex-Powell Peralta pros Tony Hawk and Per Welinder in 1992.

After the skateboard boom of the late 1980s had died, former Powell Peralta Pro Freestyle skateboarder Per Welinder wanted to stay involved with skateboarding by starting a company. Welinder had originally asked Powell Peralta pro skateboarder Lance Mountain to be his equal partner in the venture. Mountain declined as he only wanted to start a skateboard company if he had 100% ownership. Mountain later founded The Firm Skateboards (now defunct). Welinder later asked another Powell Peralta pro skateboarder Tony Hawk to be 50-50 partners in this new skateboard company. Hawk gladly accepted as he felt his time in skateboarding was nearly over due to the lack of interest in vert skating caused by the popularity of street skating. Welinder and Hawk decided to name their new skateboard company Birdhouse Projects, Birdhouse being a reference to Hawk's nick name Birdman.

Videos

Feasters (1992)

Featured skaters: Steve Berra, Tony Hawk, Jeremy Klein, Willy Santos

Other skaters include: Mark Gonzales, Eric Koston, Bucky Lasek

Untitled (1992)

Featured skaters include: Tony Hawk, Matt Beach, Jeremy Klein, Andrew Reynolds, Willy Santos

Ravers (1993)

Featured skaters include: Tony Hawk, Jeremy Klein, Matt Beach, Andrew Reynolds, Willy Santos

The End (1998)

Featured skaters include: Steve Berra, Tony Hawk, Heath Kirchart, Jeff Lenoce, Jeremy Klein, Bucky Lasek, Rick McCrank, Andrew Reynolds, Willy Santos, Brian Sumner

The Beginning (2007)

Featured skaters include: Tony Hawk, Jeremy Klein, Steve Nesser, Willy Santos, Brian Sumner, Shaun White

Birdhouse is prominently featured in the Tony Hawk's video game series, and is one of five skate teams which the player can join in Tony Hawk's Underground.

Zero skateboard

Zero Skateboards is a skateboard company located in Carlsbad, California, United States (US). The brand was founded by professional skateboarder and entrepreneur Jamie Thomas, and distributed by his Black Box Distribution company. In late June, 2014, Thomas announced that the brand will be distributed by the Dwindle Distribution company, based in El Segundo, California, US.

The Zero brand was originally a clothing company, formed in 1996, and subsequently evolved into a skateboard company, with Thomas leaving Toy Machine to become Zero's first professional team rider.

In early 2003, Thomas opened a plant in Tijuana, Mexico, named "Edieth and Osuna", to manufacture the skateboard decks of the Black Box brands. Zero team rider Chris Cole was a shareholder of the company from 2011 to 2014.

The company has released seven videos, with the premiere of the latest release, Cold War, occurring on November 8, 2013. The premiere was held at the La Paloma theater in Encinitas, California, US and Thomas invited every Zero rider, former and current, onto the stage prior to the showing of the 40-minute video.

Team members:

Professional

Jamie Thomas, John Rattray, Dane Burman, Tommy Sandoval, Garrett Hill, Adrian Lopez, James Brockman, Tony Cervantes, Winsdor James

Amateur: Franky Villani, Chris Wimer

Former

Chris Cole, Erik Ellington, Jim Greco, Elissa Steamer, Tom Asta, Marisa Dal Santo, Ben Gilley, Jon Alie, Ryan Smith, Lindsey Robertson, Sheldon Meleshinski, Ryan Bobier, Keegan Sauder, Matt Mumford, Tom Karangelov, Jamie Tancowny, Donovon Piscopo, Ben Hatchell, Scott Copalman, Aaron Harrison, Wade Burkitt, Josian Gatlyn, Jud Ferguson

Baker skateboard

Baker Skateboards is an American skateboarding company founded in 2000 by professional skateboarder Andrew Reynolds and artist Jay Strickland.

In 1999 Reynolds left Birdhouse Skateboards and started Baker Skateboards along with other professional skateboarders from Stereo, Zero, and other companies. The company was named after a lifestyle in which a person smokes a lot of weed

The skateboard deck brand signed a distribution deal with Blitz Distribution, the company that, at the time, was distributing Birdhouse and other brands, such as Fury and Hook-Ups (Blitz had originally been formed by Per Welinder and Hawk to distribute their own products). As of 2008, the brand was the top-selling brand under the Blitz Distribution umbrella. In regard to the original Baker logo, Reynolds has credited the design to Strickland and stated that it represented a motley company that consisted of talented skateboarders.

Riley Hawk, son of professional skateboarder and company owner Tony Hawk, joined the Baker team in 2012 after riding for his father's company, Birdhouse. Tony Hawk explained in a May 2012 interview that Reynolds had spoken with him first and he appreciated that his son was not being chosen as a "novelty" rider, in addition to Riley Hawk's admiration of the Baker team. According to Tony Hawk, Reynolds explained that he had great respect for Riley Hawk's skateboarding and believed that his skateboarding was unlike that of his peers. Tony Hawk further explained that he just wants his son to be motivated, as the expectation associated with being Tony Hawk's son impacted upon Riley Hawk's motivation during the early stages of his skateboarding.

Team

Professional

Andrew "The Boss" Reynolds, Dustin Dollin, Terry Kennedy, Bryan Herman, Justin "Figgy" Figueroa, Theotis Beasley, Don "Nuge" Nguyen, Riley Hawk, Sammy Baca, Cyril Jackson, Kevin "Spanky" Long, Dee Ostrander, Rowan Zorilla

Amateur

Tristan "T-funk" Funkhouser, Kader Sylla

Former team members

Antwuan Dixon (RAWDOGRAW), Jim Greco (Deathwish), Erik Ellington (Deathwish), Leo Romero (Toy Machine), Mike Maldonado, Braydon Szafranki, Jeff Lenoce, Shane Heyl, Knox Godoy, Evan Hernandez

Bakerboys Distribution

Bakerboys Distribution, a company that distributes seven brands, some of which are owned by past and current Baker riders:

Baker Skateboards, Shake Junt, Ashbury Shades, Deathwish Skateboards, Volume 4, Heroin skateboards, Hammers, Death Lens, Illegal Civilization

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John Cardiel, boardslide to face

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Slam

In skateboarding, it all takes just one make, we just want to land the trick, just only one and that is all, other than that it is slamming. Slamming is the main thing in skateboarding. Even for professional skateboarder, they still spend most of their time face down on the ground, or smashing their body on concrete and they get back up and do it again till they land the trick. It likes some kind of test that can you take what skateboard will get you into that will you give in when your face is sliding on the ground or your balls sacking on the rail. If you can’t, you are out. So if it is hurt, why people do it. Well, it is the feeling like when people do drugs. They want that high feeling of it. Skate get high from landing trick and slamming will dope you to getting there. The worst one is the one that you don’t get knockout, like you feel pain since it start till it’s done.

The outsiders think that we are just absolutely crazy. What conscious person wants to slam and smash their face and body into the concrete or dirt, get up again and think that okay this has been fun let do it again, but to skater that their nature, it is what they do every day. Some skate say that slamming is their way to learn how to skate. In skateboarding, there is no better to learn a trick than to fall down, to get hurt and breed to figure out how to get the trick. This is pretty much the core of everything thing, you learn from your mistake and yes as well as skateboarding just that this kind of mistake is the fall and it is kind of hurt a little. Sometime there is a question that when are you going to give in, the answer there is no give in, you keep doing it till you get the trick or until you are physically cannot. It just yes or no, if you land the trick, your job is done. If you give in, you got nothing.

The famous slam

John Cardiel

He skated like a 20 feet long hand rail, and then he gets stuck and flew down face first. There is a famous photo of his face with the blood coming out of the eyes or eyes’ suck.

Arto Saari

Arto tried to feeble grind the hand rail. The board stuck and he flew down to the bottom upside down. He threw up and got knock out for like 30 minute then he was taken to the hospital

Jerry hsu

Jerry tried to backside grind the hubba and when landed it the board got stuck and he flew into the wall. It was in the Emerica Stay gold of his part. In the video, you can hear the sound of his skull like smashing on the wall.

Sal barbier

He board slid the rail then he sack his nut on the rail and his face hit the rail. So he has hold both of his nut and face at the same time

And this is normal. You ride, you fall. You got to take the power out of it, that’s why skateboarding is good

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Skate shoe review

When you want to buy a skate shoe, sometimes you just like the look of the shoes and buy it. But, if you buy the function of the shoes, the problem is that we don’t know that function of the shoe they advertising is working well or not. This time we are going to review some of the popular skate shoe.

Some of the skate shoe review videos review the shoes because the shoes’ brand gives them the money, so they might not tell you the bad thing about it. I think that ‘wear test’ on RIDE Channel on YouTube (skate shoe review video on YouTube) can tell what is good and what is bad about the shoe because Christian Flores (wear test host) said it himself that he bought it with his own money so that if it good or bad will let you know honestly.

This the review of the Nike Zoom Cory Kennedy All Court CK. On the Nike website this shoe is cost 85$. This is pretty expensive for a skate shoe, but consider other Nike shoes, this is kind of middle range for Nike shoes. Basically, this is the old classic Nike all court, but remakes it into skate shoes and put Cory Kennedy (Professional skater of the Nike skate team) name on it. The toe cab is the rubber toe cab which is pretty popular for skate shoe right now. All most every skate shoe company launch rubber toe cab skate shoe, as well as Nike. The shred is pretty much the same any other Nike skate shoe. If you like you to have vulcanized shoes, that exactly what this are.  These shoes are pretty stiff at first which might be good because it may not get socky.  

After a month of skating these shoes, the shoe is pretty durable. Other than the Nike logo the fall off easily, the suede held up pretty good. The toe cab is doing its job which is protecting the foot. The laces are not ripping which is nice. The shred still looks good. The shoe is so comfortable to wear whether to walking around or to skating. The shoe is not getting socky which is nice. The toe cab is not rip at all, just the stiches that rips, but it still hold up good. Christian Flores also said that his flat ground trick and the flick is really good, like lobster dinner good. The zoom air insole which meant to protect the feet form impact isn’t that good. So right out of the box, these shoes are not the best shoe for high impact type of stuff. Sao overall these shoe skated well.

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Skate shoe

In skateboarding, we use a lot of foot movement, so the shoes we wear is pretty matter. Skate shoe is pretty matter when we skate. Skate shoe may look just like any other sneaker that people wear in daily life, in fact people like to wear skate shoe in daily life even skater.  Skateboarding shoe actually have some small feature that help us to skate better and help to protect our feet while skating. Skate shoe usually have thick and soft insole to protect our feet from high impact stuff example, when we jumping of the stair or dropping off the loading dock. Moreover, it has the rubber outsole that will help us flick the board. The shape of the shred will help the gripping when we skating.

We separate skate shoe in to two big kinds by the process of making shoe. First, this kind of shoe is called vulcanize shoe. The outsole of the shoe is vulcanized to the shoe or to glue to the shoe. This kind of shoe will give flexibility to our feet when we skate. This kind of shoe is usually thin, flexible, and lightweight and board feel. Skater that prefer vulcanize shoe is the skate that skate technical stuff, example; ledge, manual, rail, flipping tricks, low impact stuff. Since the shoe is thin and flexible, the might lack of the durability. For example, you might hurt your foot or get a heel bruise when jumping off some big stairs.

                                   Another kind is called cupsole. The cupsole is the shoe that stitches the outsole to the shoe. This kind of shoe will give you less flexibility and more durability and protection. cupsole shoe is usually use for high impact skating and less technical trick example, jumping off a big gap or big set of stairs and high drop. This kind of shoe usually last longer than vulcanize shoe.

Some people like vulcanized shoe better than cupsole shoe. Some people like cupsole better than vulcanized. It depends on a person that do you like your shoe stiff or flexible. Now either vulcanized or cupsole are not that different. The vulcanized shoe try to to make itself more durable and add more padding to make protect the feet and cupsole shoe try to make it more flexible and give more board feel. For example, Nike Cory Kennedy put an insole with a zoom air that they think that it will help protect the heel form high impact stuff. Converse KA2 which is cupsole somehow design the shoe very flexible and give a lot of board feel.

So when you want to buy a skate shoe for skating you should know how you want to skate it. If you like technical flat ground skating and a lot of board  feel and board control, so you should be looking for maybe vulcanized shoe or a shoe that give you a lot of flexibility and a lot of board feel. If you like to skate big stairs or big drop, you may want to buy a cupsole shoe or a shoe have more protection, thick insole or something that will protect your feet from rolling ankle and heel bruise.

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skateboarding in olympics

Skateboarding in Olympics

There is a news about skateboarding in the 2020 olympics. Five more additional sport has been proposed to the International Olympics committee (IOC). Skateboarding have listed alongside baseball, karate, sport climb, and surfing. This means that skateboarding will be called sport officially. Different skaters have different opinion toward this event. Some skater see skateboarding in Olympics in positive ways, but some see this event in negative ways. Let’s take a look at the Pros and Cons, if skateboarding is in the 2020 olympics.

More people will know skateboard for sure. This is a great chance to advertise skateboarding to the world in a good way. The public will see skateboarding more positively when skateboarding is in Olympics. People will look at skateboarding more sporty and see skater more like a sport player not just a group of weirdo kids or junkie or a gang that get together in a public park. When more people see this more positive way, it’s mean that more people are going to support skateboarding. There are for more skate park to be built. Those shitty skate park could be rebuilt some small that don’t have any skate park might have a chance to build one. Then someone might think that if skateboarding go to Olympics and get more popular, the chance for to get kicked out when they go out for street skate is less which might not be true because the will be more skate park and some of the skate park maybe nearby the skate spot and you can’t just tell the security that there is no skate park around anymore.

As skateboarding grow more popular, people will see it sportier and skater will be look more like athlete. This could be the beginning of the scholarship for skater and school skateboarding team. The school may provide and support their student by giving the skateboard deck, wheels, bearing. The condition of the skate part is up to the school. The helmet though, kid in the team will be wearing helmet and pads. This might sound a little funny but the school has to be safely first, then it will be normal for skater to wear helmet and pads.  

Many skaters think that skateboarding in Olympics is going to be sucks. Because skateboarding born in street and they still have the thought that skateboarding is not a sport but it is the culture, lifestyle. A sport is when people compete, but skating, it is for good. As skateboarding develop and get more popular, people think it is a sport, but when we go skate, we just hang out and looking for a good time.

The big skateboarding brand like Nike will take over skateboarding industries. With Olympics, the big brand will make a lot of money, and those small skaters own company won’t have that opportunity.

In Olympic, the skater is going to wear helmet and pads. If they not wearing them, the kid that watch it at home and want to skate would tell the parents that those in those the Olympics aren’t wearing the protection lol.

People could be thinking that the guy that win skateboarding Olympics is the best skateboarder in the world which that couldn’t happen because there is no scale or race or event Olympic that can tell who is the best skateboarder in the world.

It is the skateboarder job to maintain the spirit of the skateboarding to keep it real, keep it in the way the it should be, keep it original and don’t let the other change it.