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Skateboarding  is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry job, and a method of transportation.Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2009 report found that the skateboarding market is worth an estimated $4.8 billion in annual revenue with 11.08 million active skateboarders in the world.In 2016, it was announced that skateboarding will be represented at the 2020 summer olympics in Tokyo.

Since the 1970s, skaterparks have been constructed specifically for use by skateboarders, freestyle BMXers, agressive skater, and very recently, scooters, However, skateboarding has become controversial in areas in which the activity, although illegal, has damaged curbs, stoneworks, steps, benches, plazas and parks.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboarding)

5 Tips for your First Time on a Skateboard

When it comes to human-powered transportation, you can't beat a skateboard for cool points. The first time you try careening around on a board, keep these tips in mind to help you ride solid and avoid unnecessary wipeouts.

1.Suit Up Proper - When you're first learning how to move and brake, you're going to fall off your board. Possibly even a lot. Come prepared with kneepads, elbow pads, wrist guards to protect your joints when you try to catch yourself on the way down, and a helmet to protect the precious skull that holds the precious brain that holds all your precious newfound skateboarding knowledge.

2.Start Still on Something Soft - Before you take it to the streets, take a couple minutes to practice and get a strong sense of balance by standing on your board on a soft patch of grass, or even your living room carpet. The first time you jump onto a board you can feel pretty shaky, so if you tumble right away, it's nice to land on a gentle surface that won't scrape you up something nasty. Practice basic standing to see whether you feel more comfortable with your left foot forward (also called riding "regular style") or your right foot forward (sometimes called "goofy style"), then try bending and straightening to get the feel of it all. Once you feel really grounded in your stance, head out to some flat pavement to get moving.

3.Push Like You're Walking - To keep the board from sliding out from under your feet, keep your movements simple. You can push to build speed just by taking your front foot and making a basic step forward, as though you were walking. Instead of pushing the skateboard away from yourself and losing control, think of your motion as sort of like being a gondolier pushing a boat along, and work with the direction you're already going. Maintain control by making fewer big, powerful pushes instead of a flurry of lots of little paddles.

4.Use your Back Foot for a Basic Brake - The easiest way to brake when you're boarding is called foot braking. All you do is take your back foot off the board, and drag it on the ground to slow your momentum until you stop moving. Practice this at slow speeds until it's a totally built-in reflex, and then amp up your MPH knowing you can cruise confidently and stop or slow yourself immediately as needed, without worrying about how to do so.

5.Get Fancy Later - Your new cool green transport will give you lots of room for creativity once you've mastered the basics. In addition to using your board for simple back-and-forth to and from work, school, rad parties, dental checkups, or whatever else is going on in your life, skateboarding can be a serious artform. Take a weekend afternoon or two to just plain mess around and enjoy the zen skating. But, before you take a flying leap at your first ollie, make sure you can simply locomote responsibly and safely. (https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/tips-skateboard5.htm)

The Vast Health Benefits of Skateboarding

If you’re a skateboarder, you already know that our craft is something special. Skateboarding is a sport, an art form, a lifestyle, and a culture. The good that we get out of skateboarding is endless. Today, we’re just going to touch on some of the health benefits that skating has to offer.

Overall Fitness
Skateboarding is great for burning calories and staying in great physical shape. Calculating exact calories burned during skating isn’t easy since some days you might skate harder than others. Another reason that makes it difficult to estimate is that skateboarding to get somewhere is different from skating at a skatepark or spot. But with all this being said, skateboarding uses up far more calories than most other physical activities. Depending on your size, you might shred between 150 and 500 calories per hour.

Physical Endurance
Skate all day. Skate all night. You’ve probably heard that motto before. Skateboarding wears us out, beats us up, but we still do it as long as we can. And the more we do it, the more we’re able to do it. So why does this happen in skateboarding far more than in other sports? Why do we skate more in one day than people do other sports in a whole week? That one’s easy. It’s just more fun.

Flexibility
There aren’t many other activities out there that involve as much of your body as skateboarding. When we skate, we’re moving every part of our body, and we’re moving them in all sorts of different directions. Just think about everything that goes into a simple frontside boardslide. You’re moving your feet and your legs You’re using your arms to help balance. You’re twisting your body. Now think about all the tricks you might do throughout a day of skating. Also, picture all the combination of tricks that you might do. There probably isn’t any other sport that offers such a variety of movement.

Precision
You try a trick, you don’t land it, so you try again. But this time, you make adjustments. You place your feet differently on the board. You change your timing. You change your speed. You change the way you land. You adjust until you stick it and roll away. Skateboarding involves a lot of coordination between your eyes, legs, feet and arms. The more you skate, the better you’ll get at this. Precision and coordination are used throughout your life, whether you skateboard or not. When you improve these traits, you better your ability to do all sorts of different things from driving to climbing to multi-tasking.

Pain Tolerance
Bruises and bumps. Scrapes and scars. Aches and pains. They’re all a part of skateboarding. And since we love skateboarding so much, we’re willing to take the abuse. The fun and excitement of skating is far greater than the pain involved. Most small injuries go away. You forget about them. But you’ll never forget your first kickflip, your first drop-in, or your first handrail. So we roll with the punches. And those punches become easier to deal with each and every time. We fall. We get up. We try it again with even more determination.

Falling
Prevention of future injuries is one of the most beneficial things that skateboarding has to offer in terms of health. When you skate, you learn how to avoid falling (if possible), and you also learn how to fall correctly. Skateboarders naturally get better at knowing where to place their feet and their hands as they progress with their skating. The more you skate, the better you get at catching yourself from taking a spill. If falling is unavoidable, a seasoned skater will know how to do it in a way that minimizes injury. This is an excellent tool to have in your life. You’ll reduce the chance of freak accidents. You’ll naturally be more able to recover from slips, trips, and stumbles and avoid falling on your face.

Stress Relief
Any physical activity is considered to be good for relieving stress, but we think skateboarding is especially powerful in this way. Skateboarding can help you take your mind off things. Alternatively, it can also help you think clearly about things. Skateboarding seems to bring things into perspective and allows you to feel as though you’re more in control of other aspects of your life. In addition, skating helps you feel more relaxed in general. When you’ve conquered things like hand rails, concrete bowls, and stair sets, a lot of problems you might encounter in life are greatly reduced or disappear altogether. Landing tricks also brings a sense of accomplishment and confidence. Most importantly, skateboarding is fun and brings about happiness.

Skateboarding is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your body, mind, and soul. If you were thinking about starting, we highly recommend it and we hope that this article helped to convince you. And if you’re still not sure, just try it. You won’t regret it.(https://everskate.com/skateblog.html)

List of Local Skate Shop

Todas Crew

Skatewerx 

Lokalride 

We Legendary 

The Rail

Big H Skate Co.

Melrose Boardshop

Quilla Skate Shop

Grind

Kick Engine 

Death Sweet 

High Five

Seven Burn

Sebbys

DAYO

Jackass Project
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