SKATEBOARD

KNOW ABOUT SKATEBOARD...(?)

Nowadays, skateboarding are popular to youngsters which people must know that skateboarding was first stated in 1950s but people don’t know who invented it first even though several of them have claimed that they invented it. Somehow there’s no proof of it and so skateboarding remains a strange spontaneous creation.  This sport is still active until now.

Besides that, Anthony Frank Hawk as well-known as ‘Tony Hawk’, the famous American skateboarder who won 73 titles and was named the top vert skater every year from 1984 to 1996. He began skating in 1977 and turned pro in 1982. He also invented dozen of trick moves and he performed astonish tricky moves which was 900 twist at the 1999 X games. People have a difficulty to perform that 900 twist move. Besides skating, His video game which was Tony Hawk’s pro skater was sold off more than $1billion in sales which helps it became the most successful video games of all time. Unfortunately, Tony hawk retired from competition in 1999 but still remains active until now.

According to Switzerland-based union cyclist international (UCI) and some other influential sports power players, they were planning to add skateboard to 2016 Olympic  games in Rio De janeiro, Brazil. Supposedly, this sport to be included in 2012 Olympic Games in London but the deal eventually fell through in 2007. So we might see skateboarding in 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil or we might not? We shall see in 2016 Brazil Olympic Games.