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At some point in the 1950's skateboarding is born in California. No one knows the exact year, or who was the first to do it. All we know for sure is that skateboarding has its roots in the culture of surfing.
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The popularity of skateboarding grows rapidly as many unskateborading people, begin to skate. Skateboarding grows from street to street riding to downhill slalom and freestyle
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Skateboarding takes a sudden dive in popularity. Many people assume that skateboarding was just a fad.
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Skateboarding continues, but with a lot fewer people skating. Skateboard companies die out one at a time, and skaters are forced to create much of their own equipment.
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Frank Nasworthy invents urethane skateboard wheels. Until this point, skaters used clay, or even metal wheels. These wheels spark new interest in skateboarding.
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there was a festival named ocean festival. in del war, california.
It's a traditional freestyle and slalom contest, but the Zephyr team arrived and blew the contest away with a new agressive, innovative style of skateboarding.
The most famous of these Zephyr team riders were Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Stacy -
Alan Gelfand invents the Ollie.
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skaterparks need to close because skating begins to dive in popularity.
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the skaters started making their own little groups about it and the sport began getting more creative and personal.
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a woman named stacey and man named george teamed up to make their first skateboarding video which made the skaters feel like they were part og something bigger.
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Skateboarding begins to dive in popularity again. It's not as bad as the previous ones, but it hits skateboarding the hardest. Most skaters only skate street. Pro skaters fall on hard times.
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Street skateboarding grows in popularity, but with a new edge. Skateboarding grows along with punk culture, and skateboarding gains a strong angry image.
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thoughout the 2000's skateboarding begun growing in popularity and a lot of skateborad contest's begin to pop up all over the world and still skateboard was very mainstream
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skateborading in our time is very popular, every city have many skaters in the streets and undergrounds. more and more tricks is inventing and they have their own "language" and cloth-style. AND it grows still
