Skateboarding is an extension of land surfing. The former is limited by geographical and climatic conditions, while the latter has greater freedom. Residents of the Sunshine Beach community in Southern California soon made the world's first skateboard.
Today, this is a rather primitive invention: a 50*50CM board is fixed on the iron wheel of roller skating. Even such simple sports equipment has aroused people's interest because it can provide the same psychological feeling brought by surfing.
However, due to its backwardness (the board is too heavy and inflexible, the steering mechanism is not sensitive, and the wheels are too slippery, etc.). ), skateboarding has not been so popular today. This earliest skateboard can be seen in the skateboard video program Ban This.
The second generation skateboard was born in 1962. This is composed of 15 * 60cm oak laminated board, roller-skating steering bridge and plastic wheels. Compared with the first generation skateboard, this kind of skateboard is undoubtedly a technological leap. However, the performance of the plastic wheel of this skateboard is still very unsatisfactory. His adhesion friction is too small, which makes the skateboard out of control when turning sharply; His low elasticity means that the skateboard will suddenly stop when it meets even a small obstacle, and the skater will fall off. At the same time, his wear resistance is too poor. Nevertheless, this kind of skateboard is still popular with skaters. After all, skateboarding has evolved to a great extent compared with the previous generation, and the relatively wide board surface makes it easier for skaters to stand and control. Most skateboards sold in China belong to this second generation product.
1973, a skateboarder named Frank Nasworthy installed polyurethane wheels on his skateboard for the first time, and achieved unexpected results. He immediately began to sell the wheel called Cadillac to his skateboarding friends. This flexible wheel is not only wear-resistant, but also allows the skateboard to turn safely and smoothly and easily run over small obstacles on the ground. This is how the third generation skateboard was invented. Because skateboarding originated from surfing, the skateboarding culture in the early 1970s was basically a culture with traces of surfing. Skateboarding enthusiasts and the builders of skateboarding parks initially built many terrains to simulate surfing. Later, they finally realized that because skateboarding has less resistance and lighter weight than surfboards, they can build terrain that is different from surfing and more suitable for skateboarding to achieve greater speed, mobility and self-expression ability.
The "West Wind" skateboarding team in Santa Monica, California, USA, used the abandoned keyhole swimming pool as a venue for practicing vertical water skateboarding, which formed a swimming pool search fever in California for a time. Since then, skateboarding and surfing have become a prominent force, not only from equipment, venues, but also from personnel. Instead of surfing, this new army devoted itself to skateboarding and began to form its own language, skills, clothing style and music hobbies. Formed a new, city-oriented skateboarding secondary culture.
The mid-1970s was a period of rapid development of the third generation skateboard. It is predicted that a new type of sports will emerge as the times require, and countless small skateboarding companies established by skateboarders and surfers have sprung up like mushrooms after rain and started to compete in technical quality. The potential of polyurethane wheels is fully tapped. The continuously improved polyurethane wheel enhances the adhesion friction of the skateboard, improves the speed, and can even slide on the vertical plane. In addition, the research and development of skateboard materials has reached the end of the road. Hard plastics, aluminum alloys, glass fibers, and even high-tech carbon composites are used to trial-produce skateboards. Finally, Canada Sugar Maple, which has good impact resistance and light weight, has undertaken the historical mission of a new generation of skateboard materials.
The polyurethane wheel invented by Powell Company and the concave skateboard tail patented by Stevenson became the third generation skateboard by going up a flight of stairs.
At the end of 1980s, due to the development of skateboarding itself and the improvement of skaters' technical requirements for skateboarding, and in order to meet the needs of two-way sliding of U-shaped pool, a kind of skateboard with inclined ends and symmetrical shape appeared, which is the fourth generation skateboard. Professional skaters all use the fourth generation skateboard. The fourth generation skateboard is changed to hard stone maple, which is lighter and more elastic. Skateboard wheel has high hardness and good elasticity, which is more suitable for high-speed sliding. Due to the balance of weight, the fourth-generation skateboard is more suitable for all kinds of overturning actions.
In the early 1990 s, skateboarding entered a trough. Because it is in the period of skateboarding renewal, skateboarding has changed from one end to two ends, so there are many actions that the previous generation skateboarding can't complete. This period is the era of skateboarding skills. The skater invented many new moves. At the same time, in order to make the skateboard turn over more easily, the skateboard surface becomes very narrow and the wheels become very small. During this period, the typical skateboard was only 7 inches wide, and the wheel diameter was only about 39 mm. Although such a skateboard was easier to make complex movements, the smaller wheels hindered its sliding performance.
Attached today, it was found in Wuta Temple (Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum) that sculptures in the Ming Dynasty had skateboard-like patterns.