skateboarding parks

"Longing to join the skateboarders in the park, a little boy, when his mom surprises him with her old skateboard, practices everywhere but when it comes time to try the skatepark, he must find the courage and confidence to make his debut"--BTCat.

Presents interviews with ten professional skateboarders in which they discuss the mental and emotional side of the sport, features sequential photographs of twenty-five intermediate and advanced tricks, and includes brief touring guides of Oregon and Colorado, and advice on how to build a skatepark.

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.

Skateboarding introduces beginning readers to basics of the activity and encourages them to participate.

Photographs and text describe popular skateboarding parks throughout the world, and provide information on square footage, history, and other details about special features.

Provides an overview of the history of skateboarding, discusses regulations, and examines the process of designing, developing, and operating a skateboarding facility.

Pat, upset by the teasing he gets from the other kids about his skateboarding, decides to try and get a skate park built in his community.

Describes the history of skateboarding parks, discussing some of the top parks through the years.