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Best skateboarding and the city
1. Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body
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Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.
The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race, class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates, street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book riveting.
2. adidas Skateboarding Men's City Cup Collegiate Navy/Collegiate Navy/Chalk White 12.5 D US
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Inspired by the golden era of skateboarding, the adidas Skateboarding City Cup shoe will take retro style into the future!Full-grain leather upper.
Leather and synthetic upper.
Breathable mesh lining.
Linear Trefoil logo on heel. Vulcanized midsole wrap. Rubber outsole for grippy performance and long-lasting durability. Imported. Measurements: Weight: 15 oz Product measurements were taken using size 14, width D - Medium. Please note that measurements may vary by size. Weight of footwear is based on a single item, not a pair.
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Inspired by the golden era of skateboarding, the adidas Skateboarding City Cup shoe will take retro style into the future! Full-grain leather upper. Leather and synthetic upper. Breathable mesh lining. Linear Trefoil logo on heel. Vulcanized midsole wrap. Rubber outsole for grippy performance and long-lasting durability. Imported. Measurements: Weight: 15 oz Product measurements were taken using size 14, width D - Medium. Please note that measurements may vary by size. Weight of footwear is based on a single item, not a pair.3. Skateboarding
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This introductory guide to skateboarding will have kids doing ollies, grinds, and verts in no time! Aspiring skateboarders can experience the adventurous world of boarding with these detailed instructions, which include killer original photography and illustrations. Tips and techniques for both beginners and experts alike explain everything they need to know, from safety to board maintenance. Learn how to locate the best equipment so they can skate just like their heroes. Features shots of professional skaters and information on the history of skating. Before you know it, your child will be skating like a pro!4. Blabac Photo: The Art of Skateboarding Photography
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"It's rad what I do."--Mike Blabac
Blabac Photo: The Art of Skateboarding Photography is a stunning chronicle of a youth movement as seen through the lens of Mike Blabac, a man who is as dedicated to his craft as he is to the skateboarding lifestyle that inspired it. For millions of people around the world, skateboarding is more than a mere hobby or a sport--it's a way of life that has shaped everything from fashion and music, to video games and art. Blabac Photo proves that point with 300 awe-inspiring images that communicate the stories and exploits of some of the most creative athletes to ever step on a skateboard including Eric Koston, Stevie Williams, Colin McKay, Rob Dyrdek, and Danny Way. As skateboarding evolved over time, from a hobby for kids on the Venice boardwalk into a global culture, skate legends were born, records were broken, titans of industry materialized--and Mike Blabac was there to document the history of the movement as it developed before his eyes.
5. Like a Dog (City Lights/Sister Spit)
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"Tara Jepsen's Like a Dog is outrageously funny and soul-scrapingly grim, in the tradition of our most intrepid, shameless, and shame-filled comedians and storytellers. It also announces a singular new voice in American fictionone which is deeply alive, hard-hitting, and tender."Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts
A skateboarder in her early thirties, Paloma is aimlessly winging it through life. She takes low-paying jobs, drinks neon-colored wine coolers in the park, and drives to the Central Valley to skate the empty swimming pools dotting the sun-blasted landscape.
Paloma struggles to have a relationship with her brother Peter, whose opiate addiction makes that nearly impossible. Her own delusions about the nature of addiction help to keep the threat of Peter's death by overdose at a comfortable enough distance, and as he slides into a dangerous spiral, Paloma tries out the world of stand-up comedy, happier than she's ever been.
Praise for Like a Dog:
This book beat the crap out of me. I am bruised and laughing. Thank you Tara Jepsen, may I have another?Daniel Handler, author of All The Dirty Parts
"Tara Jepsen captures the absurd, animal humor of residing in a human female body on planet Earth like no other, and Like a Dog sets it loose within a hazy California underground of abandoned skate pools, weed farms and comedy open mics. Eccentric and insidery, taking on the bonds of family and addiction, the effort to find a life and the drive to end it, Like a Dog brims with hyper-conscious gems of hilarity and pathos."Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave
"Tara Jepsens blunt eloquence takes us deep into the difficulty of our desires, where the things we most wantintimacy, realness, safety, guaranteesare the things we are the least likely to get. In the desolate hardscapes and nowheres of California, north and south, she reveals how closeness can still be alienating: a brutal fact of her stark realism that brings both laughter and tears."Karen Tongson, author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries
"How can this be Tara Jepsen's first book? Her inimitable voice has been a beloved part of the underground art scene for yearsin comedy, performance, and personal essays. With her fiction debut, she turns all her pathos and humor on her protagonist Paloma as she explores the eternal pursuit for love and meaning among and between humans. Jepsens specialty is the off-kilter observation or indignant proclamation that hits you in the funny bone and then resonates with real soul. I loved this book. Im ecstatic she could lasso her eccentric and significant cosmology and weave it into this beautiful story."Beth Lisick, author of Yokohama Threeway and Other Stories, co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series
6. Street Skateboarding: Endless Grinds and Slides: An Instructional Look at Curb Tricks
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7. Skater Girl: A Girl's Guide to Skateboarding
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From lingo and board facts to fashion advice and flatout, including "The Top 10 Reasons Why Skateboarding Rocks," this book gives girls the lowdown on all the need-to-know stuff.
Of course, the authors get serious with the riding. Step-by-step photos show new girls all the basics, including getting on the board, proper riding form, simple turns and safe stops. As readers advance, the authors teach tricks like ollies, grinds and flips, as well as advanced techniques for riding at a skate park on big ramps, hot wheel loops, full pipes, quarter pipes, boxes, and a rail.
8. Extreme Skateboarding (Extreme Sports No Limits!)
