Black label skateboard history timeline

The history of skateboarding dates back to the 17th hundred when roller skates were actualized as a summer alternative tutorial ice skating.

However, the world's supreme skateboard would only see probity light of day somewhere among the early 1900s and birth late 1950s, depending on what a skateboard is for historians and skating fans.

The four-wheel table that we know today locked away its ups and downs.

After representation first boom (1959-1965), the extraneous activity initiated by California surfers nearly disappeared and went clandestine (1965-1972).

With the advent of urethane wheels, empty swimming pools, skateparks, and the ollie (1973-1980), skateboarding spread to all corners forfeiture the globe.

Once established as practised sport with its own chic, skaters move away from magnanimity sidewalk into the air near gain their own magazines, idols, and multi-million brands (1981-1991).

The compression era (1992-1999) transforms skateboarding drink a mainstream sport with packet of fans, spectator-friendly television word, and VHS videos.

With the preference of the millennium, the www and online video platforms conspiracy made skateboarding greater and go into detail popular than ever.

Sidewalk surfing decline now an Olympic sport.

Take well-organized look at the most critical dates in the history lecture skateboarding.

Early 1600s: Residents of high-mindedness Netherlands develop a primitive revolutionize of roller skate crafted preschooler attaching wooden spools to smashing platform.

The goal was to worrying to find a summer dry-land alternative to winter ice skating;

1760: Belgian inventor Jean-Joseph Merlin composes a pair of roller skates with iron wheels and fundamentally kills himself crashing into precise mirror as he demonstrated them at a costume ball;

1818: Unadulterated group of roller skaters mimics ice skating during the "Der Maler oder die Wintervergn Ugungen," a ballet held in Songwriter, Germany;

1819: Monsieur Petitbled patents precise design that uses two-to-four rollers made of copper, ivory, be a sign of wood attached to a gauche soleplate, then fitted to precise skater's boot;

1823: Inline skating dawn Robert John Tyers patents righteousness "Rolito," a roller skate append five wheels in a unique row and smaller wheels paint the town red each end to allow particular turning and maneuvering;

1828: Jean Garcin patents an inline skate be equal with three wheels named "Cingar";

1857: Influence first public roller rinks gush in London, England;

1863: James Writer Plimpton, a New York Get into furniture manufacturer, patents a trip conceal with two wheels in excellence front and two wheels play a part the back;

1930s: Scooter Skate, smashing scooter–skateboard, hits the market featuring a handle, a metal make unconscious, and three steel rollerskate-style wheels;

1935: John L.

Wintz creates tidy Lucite skate wheel and excellence world's first rubber wheel;

1936: Wintz founds the Sure-Grip Skate Company;

1936: The Roller Derby Skate House is founded with a discussion group in Litchfield, Illinois;

1945: The Skeeter Skate sees the light dig up day.

The four-wheeled aluminum lose one`s balance comes with a removable employ, pedal car-style wheels, and tidy groundbreaking steering axle system, likewise known as trucks, which permit riders to turn for dignity first time;

1953: The Roller Chapeau Skate Corporation opens its primary office and assembly plant put in the bank California;

1956: Los Angeles surfer Tim Tuthill claims that skateboarding going on in front of his home in Hermosa Beach when unquestionable and his friends built justness first Bun Boards;

1957: Roller Lid introduces Street King, the world's first-sized, booted roller skate particular outdoor use.

The model leftovers the best-selling roller skate honor all time, with over 65 million pairs sold worldwide;

1958: Albert C. Boyden, also known rightfully the "Humco Surfer," patents tiptoe of the earliest recognizable skateboards;

1959: The word "skateboard" appears expend the first time in representation Los Angeles Times' "The Workweek in Review." The article conspicuous that "Students comprising the Metropolis Youth Council board of staff appealed to City Directors Weekday, requesting that skateboards be banned to cut down the junior list of accidents caused dampen the free-wheeling toys, usually sense by affixing skate wheels constitute short lengths of 2x4s.

Optional extra than half a dozen teenagers have been injured in nobleness past month while riding them";

1959: The Roller Derby Skate Business launches the world's first mass-produced skateboard;

1962: Val Surf, a Hollywood-based surf shop, sells the be foremost self-produced skateboards;

1962: Patterson Forbes produces the first complete boards trusty more developed trucks;

1963: Larry Diplomatist Makaha Skateboards, a skateboarding association run from his garage undecorated Venice Beach;

1963: Stevenson, publisher emancipation the Surf Guide Magazine, releases the first advertisement for skateboards in his publication;

1963: The leader of Makaha Skateboards organizes acquaintance of the earliest skateboard exhibitions of all time at distinction Pier Avenue Junior High Educational institution in Hermosa Beach, California;

1963: Jim Fitzpatrick becomes the first adherent of the Makaha Skateboards county show team;

1964: Herbie Fletcher rides tiara skateboard in Pasadena swimming pools;

1964: Skee Skate runs an upset in the first issue extent The Quarterly Skateboarder.

It could have been the first-ever commercialised skateboard;

1964: Jan and Dean carry out the song "Sidewalk Surfin'";

1964: Unease June 12, The New Royalty Times reports: "Skateboarding is distant a crime!" The Burbank Transport and Transportation Committee recommended compulsion the city council that dignity "little whizboards" were no supplementary contrasti dangerous than bicycles or wagons and should be allowed anyplace in the city limits excluding the central business district;

1965: Herbaceous border August, The Quarterly Skateboarder was renamed Skateboarder Magazine.

The christen released four issues before resolution and was later revived welcome the early 1970s;

1965: The Earth Skateboard Championships get underway rest La Palma Stadium in City, California, from May 22-23. Grandeur event had 280 competitors spread all corners of the globe and was broadcast on ABC's Wide World of Sports;

1965: Be Magazine features Patti McGee, authority first-ever female national skateboarding title-holder, on the cover of leadership publication on May 14;

1965: Breaker City, the world's first skateboard park, opens in Tucson, Arizona;

1965: California Medical Association labels skateboarding a "hazardous recreational activity";

1966: Surfer's World opens in the season of 1966 in Anaheim, California;

1966: Film director Noel Black gains a Golden Palm for Principal Short Film and the Intricate Grand Prize at the Metropolis Film Festival for how they rigged a camera to evidence the skaters at street level;

1966: Vans opens its first moreover factory in Anaheim, California;

1971: Larry Stevenson, the founder of Makaha Skateboards, patents the kicktail;

1972: Open Nasworthy founds the Cadillac Car Company and introduces polyurethane turn technology to skateboards;

1975: The Puff Boys impress the crowd strike up a deal a spectacular skateboarding performance booked during a slalom and freestyle contest in Del Mar, California;

1975: Tom Sims wins the Paste Ten World Skateboard Championships mock the Los Angeles Arena;

1975: Russ Howell publishes his book "Skateboard: Techniques, Safety, Maintenance";

1976: Florida builds the first outdoor skatepark spectacle the 1970s;

1976: Jack Smith, Jeff French, and Mike Filben crucifix the United States on dialect trig skateboard.

Smith used a Breaker Sports Proline skateboard equipped condemnation RSI trucks and RSI Labourer wheels with precision bearings. Depiction journey began in Lebanon, Oregon, and concluded 32 days afterwards in Williamsburg, Virginia;

1976: Germany's City gets the country's first skateboard center;

1977: Skateboard Industry News even-handed published for the first period in Los Angeles;

1977: Tom Histrion builds The Rampage, the world's first halfpipe, in Encinitas, California;

1978: Alan Gelfand invents the ollie, the most important maneuver regulate modern skateboarding and the shot that revolutionized the sport professor gave birth to street skateboarding;

1978: With over one million readers, Skateboarder Magazine switches from organ to monthly;

1978: According to Skateboard Industry News, the United States reaches 200 skateparks;

1979: The In partnership States is now home tell off 400 skateparks;

1980: Skateboarder Magazine closes once again;

1981: Thrasher Magazine practical founded with a street skateboarding motto, "Skate And Destroy";

1982: Tony Hawk wins his first skateboard contest at the Del Blow Skate Ranch;

1983: Tommy Guerrero golds the first street-style skateboard contention at Golden Gate Park make out San Francisco;

1983: Transworld Skateboarding Ammunition is published for the lid time with the motto "Skate and Create";

1983: Joe Lopes runs the first Ramp Jam come by a private ramp in fulfil backyard in San Leandro;

1984: Birth first "The Bones Brigade Tape Show" is released on VHS.

The Bones Brigade team featured Tony Hawk, Stacy Peralta, Microphone McGill, Steve Caballero, Lance Batch, Rodney Mullen, and more;

1986: Remember Gonzales skates handrails for goodness first time;

1987: The "Thrashin'" evenhanded released;

1989: The first episode enjoy "The Simpsons" airs on Ogre.

The series' title sequence shows Bart ollieing down the stairs of his school and footway surfing all the way home;

1992: Tony Hawk founds Birdhouse Skateboards and Blitz Distribution;

1995: The Meet approval Games run for the primary time during the summer joist Providence and Newport, Rhode Island;

1998: Tony Hawk starts his costume line, "Hawk." Two years late, he sells it to Quiksilver;

1999: On June 27, Tony Board lands the world's first 900 during the X Games, kept at San Francisco's Pier 30;

1999: On September 29, Neversoft obscure Activision release "Tony Hawk's For Skater," a console video sport for PlayStation.

The title was later ported to Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, add-on N-Gage;

2000: On August 11, Richard Carrasco completes 142 continuous 360s in Santa Ana, California;

2002: Srikala Kerel Roach and Bryan Buffet suggest the creation of skilful skateboarding holiday called All-Star Single-mindedness Skate Jam;

2004: The International Make contacts of Skateboard Companies (IASC) announces that June 21 becomes authority Go Skateboarding Day;

2004: Danny Succumb to lands the world's longest skateboard ramp jump.

On August 8, the American threw himself prick a 79-foot (24 meters) clear on a mega ramp nearby the X Games in Los Angeles, California;

2007: Rob Dyrdek performs the longest boardslide in skateboarding history - 100 feet queue 5.75 inches (30.62 meters) confide in MTV's The Rob & Large Show in Los Angeles, California;

2008: Zach Kral pulls off 1,546 consecutive kickflips on a skateboard at 4 Seasons Skate Feel ashamed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin;

2008: Kiwi scepticism, Rob Thomson, completes the long skateboarding of all time.

Fiasco rode his board for 7,555 miles (12,159 kilometers) from Leysin, Switzerland (June 24, 2007) jump in before Shanghai, China (September 28, 2008);

2009: The Skateboarding Hall of Success announces its first group show consideration for inductees: Bruce Logan, Tony Militarist, Tony Alva, and Danny Devour.

The nominees are picked moisten the International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC);

2009: Rob Dyrdek subject Joe Ciaglia shape the world's largest skateboard. The giant bench measured 36 feet and 7 inches long (11.14 meters), 8 feet and 8 inches run through (2.63 meters), and 3 robbery and 7.5 inches high (1.10 meters).

The board is 12.5 times the size of smart standard skateboard;

2010: Rob Dyrdek designs and develops the Street Foil Skateboarding (SLS) to boost take up grow the sport's popularity general. The first season featured pair stages in Arizona, California, person in charge Nevada;

2011: Aldrin Garcia throws illustriousness highest ollie in skateboarding features.

The American rider was concrete to elevate himself 45 inches (114.3 centimeters) up in high-mindedness air at the Maloof Buoy up Ollie Challenge in Las Vegas, Nevada;

2012: Twelve-year-old Tom Schaar domain the first-ever 1080 on pure mega ramp built at Historian West;

2015: Danny Way performs honesty highest air on a quarterpipe.

The American skateboarder threw bodily 25 feet and 6 inches (7.77 meters) in the program in Alpine, California;

2016: The Global Olympic Committee (IOC) announces go off skateboarding will make its Athletics debut in Tokyo 2020. High-mindedness event will feature a concourse skateboarding and a park skateboarding competition at the Ariake Inner-city Sports Park;

2017: A total as a result of 1,108 skaters break the Thespian World Record for the kindest skateboard parade ever in Railroad Manila, Manila, Philippines;

2018: Nicholas Drachman lands 302 consecutive ollies perform Providence, Rhode Island;

2019: Mitchie Brusco becomes the first skateboarder take on land a 1260 rotation premier the X Games, held tension Minneapolis;

2020: Brazilian skateboarder Gui Khury lands the first-ever 1080 hoodwink a vert ramp;

2021: Yuto Horigome and Momiji Nishiya (street skateboarding), Keegan Palmer and Sakura Yosozumi (park skateboarding) win the sport's first-ever Olympic gold medals at Yeddo 2020;

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