滑板(英语)

Skateboarding doesnt have a certain origin. Nobody truly knows which is it. Some people believe that Skate began on the surfing beaches of California, U.S.A. around the 50s. People say that some surfers put wheels on a piece of wood. This began because of the lack of good waves to surf, and surfers just looked for another sport when this happened. It mainly started like sidewalk surfers?

The design of skateboards was inspired in surfboards, at the beginning they where quite similar, but with the time the design changed because of commodities. The first manufactured skateboards where born in 1965. They were an inch thick, had rubber wheels, and cast ?iron trucks.

Competitions soon started down the sidewalks between skateboarders, some of this were: Free Style, Slalom, Down Hill, High Jump and finally Long Jump. Some time passed by, and skateboarders started using drainage channels, routes, and some places around buildings.

Vert skating began using