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A oval shaped piece of wood with wheels used to do tricks. |
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the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. |
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How many people skateboard? |
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A 2002 report by American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world. |
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Skateboarders polled who had used a board in the last year were under the age of 18. |
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85 percent,74 percent were male. |
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What is the most used trick? |
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When was the ollie developed? By who? |
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in the late 1970s and in the early '80s,by Rodney Mullen. |
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When was skateboarding developed? by who? |
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In the late 1940s or early 1950s, surfers in California. |
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Why did the surfers make skateboards? |
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They wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. |
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Who made the first skateboard? |
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What did skateboarding used to be called? |
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Where was skateboarding first manufactured? |
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first manufactured skateboards were in a Los Angeles, California surf shop. |
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What were the skateboards meant to be used for? |
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By surfers in their downtime. |
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Who owned the shop that sold the first skateboards? |
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who invented many of the basic tricks of modern street skating such as the Impossible and the kickflip. |
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How many skateboarding tricks are there? |
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What country had baned skating? |
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Do people use skating as transportation? |
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What did skateboards used to be? |
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wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels slapped on the bottom. |
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When was skateboarding was at a peak of popularity? |
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