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People surfed a lot so the kids used to take off their roller blades and nail them into a piece of wood.
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Kids used to call skateboarding “side walk surfing”
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Larry Stevenson designed and made the first professional skateboard.
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Larry Stevenson made a skate company named “Makaha”
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skateboarding became very popular in venice beach
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The shoe brand “vans” got its start with the skate world.
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Larry Stevenson created a new board called the “kick tail.
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Skateboarding mostly went underground , street skating. The large skateboarding companies suffered a huge lost.
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Skateboard tricks became more difficult and technical.
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The deck size decreased from 9”- 10” to 7” -8” in width.
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People started getting big in the skate world.
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Skateboarding was earning respect as professional athletes receiving a lot of money.
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Original team member Danny Bearer died of a heart attack at age 59.
