Usain Bolt

SKATEBOARD

Skateboard is practiced in Skate Park or in the street.

Skate Park is a place, where you can practice, skateboard, roller, BMX, or scooter. Skate Park has been created because, all these sports are practiced generally in the street, but for cause no damage to the urban’s furniture.

There are several specialties in a skate park, the most impressive is the ramp or also called the “U”, due to his U shaped.

Skateboard has become a real phenomenon of mode. He’s in the United States, the third most popular sport.

Skate was created in 1962, by California’s surfers who are annoyed to have no waves everydays, so they decided to attached wheels to a board, and then they can ride everyday without worrying about the weather.

The different part of a skate is:

• The Board, generally make with 7 layers of wood maples. The board approximate the 60 cm. The front of the board is more elevated than the back of the board, the front of the board is called the nose, and the back of the board is called the tail. On the board there is a thin layer, who looks like a nail file this is…

• The Grip who is adhered to the board. The grip is essential for the good adherence of the foot to the board, without him the skater can quickly slide out the board. Under the board there is steel bars this is…

• The Trucks, the trucks is the liaison between the board and the ground and they allow the board to lean for a rotation, trucks had to be very hard, because this is them who will support the impact. Attached to the trucks there is…

• The wheels, there were lot of kind, shape and size of wheels with different hardness, depending on how do you want to practice skate. Inside the wheels for limited the friction between the wheels and the trucks there is…

• The Bearings, essentials for the speed, and the quality of slide.

Skateboard, is generally practiced, not for cruising as if you were on a bike, but essentially for realize tricks.

There were tricks needed before perform other tricks, the most popular and most important is the “ollie”.

The ollie consist just to jump with a certain movement of your foot, for jump with the board.

Generally after learning this tricks, follows the kickflips.

Kickflips is to do a ollie but this time to also turn the board horizontally and vertically.

After learning those tricks there were other tricks like :

• The Shove-it (Rotation 180°)

• The Ollie 180 (Jump and make a half tour)

• Varial Flip (Combination between the shove-it and the kickflip)

• Slide (To slide with the board)

• Grind (To slide with the trucks)

This is the most popular tricks, of course it’s remains a lot of other tricks.

However, skateboard stay a extreme sport, so despite the fact that it’s good for the health, remains that skateboarding is very dangerous, so it’s very advised to take precautions and be aware of people around when this is practiced, because the accident does not prevent.

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