skateboarding

"Riley and Dashawn have been best friends forever. Their mutual love of skateboarding has only brought them closer. Then one night when they are out filming their Sponsor Me videos, something goes horribly wrong. Not only will their friendship be tested, but the way in which they see the world will be forever changed"--Back cover.

Skaters who have mastered beginning and intermediate skills, along with veteran skaters, can benefit from the simple yet effective instruction offered in this book. The book covers detailed instructions for tricks and techniques to ride quarter-pipes, half-pipes, bowls, and to excel in both street skating and skate park skating, progressing through skill levels from low advanced to high advanced. It will help readers interested in upping their game become experts in no time, executing flawless manuals, stalls, and slides and impressing their friends with grabs, ollies, flips, and other tricks.

As skateboarding has grown in popularity, the venues built specifically for skating have grown in number, too. Much like earlier generations built baseball fields and basketball courts, modern-day municipalities and other entities are building skate parks. In this book, readers will discover how there has rarely been as good an era to skate street courses and obstacles at local parks, which provide the challenge and variety skaters used to only be able to find on the streets. This book provides safety and equipment guidelines, and gives step-by-step instructions for popular tricks, like ollies, grinds, manuals, flips, slides, and more.

A behind the scenes looks at how craftsman Jake Eshelman makes one-of-a-kind skateboards by hand from found wood.

Fourteen-year-old social outcast Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.

Introduces readers to some of the world's most extreme board sports.

When local skateboarding idol Scottie Devine announces a kind of treasure hunt in his home town in California, skating friends Griff and Annika are thrilled to participate--but soon the competition threatens to destroy their friendship.