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Boards are created with wooden boards/boxes with roller blade wheels attached to the bottom.
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By 1960's a small number of surf shops start manufacturing boards
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Skateboarding finally gets its first magazine "The Quarterly Skateboarder"
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Frank Nasworthy starts skateboarding wheel company called "Cadillac Wheels" , wheels made with polyurethane.
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Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional freestyle manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels, spinning only on the back wheels , high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a, long jumping from one board to another.
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One of the early leading trends associated with the sub-culture of skateboarding itself, was the sticky sole Slip-On Skate shoe, most popularized by Sean Pen. Which also started up the classic skate shoe brand Vans
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Skateparks hadn't been invented yet, so skateboarders would flock and skateboard in such urban places like The Escondido reservoir in San Diego, California.
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The United States Marine Corps tested the usefulness of commercial off-the-shelf skateboards during urban combat military exercises in the late 1990s in a program called Urban Warrior '99. Their special purpose was "for maneuvering inside buildings in order to detect tripwires and sniper fire".
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Skateboarding was, at first, tied to the culture of surfing. As skateboarding spread across the United States to places unfamiliar with surfing or surfing culture, it developed an image of its own. For example, the classic film short Video Days portrayed skateboarders as reckless rebels
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Skate boarding is still a very popular sport to this day, with makes it show in a very popular stunt show called X Games and is considered an extreme sport
