2. HISTORY
Skateboarding started in the late 1940s early
1950s when California surfers wanted
something to surf when there where no waves
in the ocean.

3. HISTORY CONT.
The first known
skateboards
where made
out of wooden
boxes or
boards with
roller skate
wheels
attached to
bottom of the
board.

4. PRODUCTION OF THE SKATEBOARD
After various
ways of
making the
skateboard
where
invented, a
certain model
seemed to
stick and it
was decks of
pressed
layered wood.

5. PRODUCTION OF SKATEBOARDS
A number of
surfboard
companies started
to make
skateboards that
looked like
miniature
surfboards and
assembled teams
to promote their
products.

6. WHEELS
Original skateboard
wheels were made
out of steel and
clay, but in the
1970s a company
called Cadillac
wheels invented a
polyurethane
wheel. The wheel
had much better
traction

7. DECK
The actual board itself
is called the deck
and in the 1970s
companies
experimented with
different metals and
plastic but the type
of board that really
worked the best
was made of
layered plywood.

8. SHAPE
From the 1940s to 1982 all of
the skateboarding took
place in pools and downhill
so all of the skateboards
were shaped like
surfboards to make the
ride easier, as the
skateboarding moved to
the streets and skaters
started performing tricks
just on the ground the
design of the skateboard
changed to make it easier
to perform various tricks.

9. CONCLUSION
Skateboards have changed a
lot over 60 years and the
main purpose of changing
the way the skateboard is
shaped is to accommodate
how the skateboard is
used. Longboards are used
for skating and carving
down hill just like a
surfboard, and the most
recent skateboards are
made for tricks and have a
completely unique design.