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    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2
    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2
    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2
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    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

    By Steve Badillo

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    Compiling more legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details dozens of spectacular stuntscombining invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each feat is captured in action sequence and captioned allowing aspiring riders to learn how to perform them. A history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors, is also included. Blending background and how-to, this copiously illustrated reference explains amazing maneuvers that changed the sport and encourages a deep respect for the legends that made skateboarding the worldwide passion it is today.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherchristine+tracks
    Release dateMar 1, 2010
    ISBN9781884654794
    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

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      Skateboarding - Steve Badillo

      1961-2009

      Acknowledgements

      SkateLab

      Becca Badillo

      Gavin Badillo

      Todd Huber

      Scott Radinsky

      Pat Ngoho

      Torey Pudwill

      Mike Mo Capaldi

      Matt Boyster

      Tom Schaar

      Ben Schroeder

      Curren Caples

      Mark Partain

      Duane Peters

      Josh Nelson

      Josh Borden

      Anthony Janow

      Cory Philips

      Kristos Andrews

      Brandon Read

      Eric Tuma Britton

      Ty Page

      John Lucero

      Eddie Hadvina

      Bennet Harada

      Lester Kasai

      Danny Way

      Mike McGill

      Christian Hosoi

      Lance Mountain

      Steve Caballero

      Tony Hawk

      Skip Engblom

      Lizzie Armanto

      Melissa O’Grady

      Bob Burnquist

      Donny Barley

      Dan Levy-Juice

      Ivory Serra

      Bob-0 Garza

      Jeff Mercader

      Dan Murray

      Rex Heery

      Benji Galloway

      Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins

      Dave Hackett

      Ozzie Ausband

      Zander Gabriel

      Chris Chaput

      Daniel Harold Sturt

      Rob Mertz

      Zach Wagner

      Chris Weddle

      Steve thanks these companies for their support

      Santa Monica Airlines

      SkateLab

      DVS Shoe Company

      Black Plague Wheels

      Skateboard Companies

      Santa Monica Airlines

      Powell Peralta

      Hosoi Skateboards

      Dogtown

      Sims

      Almost

      Girl

      Plan B

      Half Pint Skateboards

      Pocket Pistols

      Flip

      Old Man Army

      Black Label

      Small Beating

      Santa Cruz

      G&S

      Madrid

      Vision

      Zoo York

      Birdhous

      Origins

      Image B

      In Legendary Tricks 2, I write about some of the tricks that I didn’t cover in the first Legendary Tricks book. Though the stories and photos will help give you an understanding of these legendary tricks, I still didn’t cover all the tricks I wanted to write about.

      You might ask, where is this trick or that trick? Everyone has his or her own opinion on what a legendary trick really is. Research and investigation into bits of skateboarding history often led to nothing more than a rumor. This meant that I had to go straight to the source or other skaters from the period for details in a lot of cases. Sometimes even the rumors faded away with the skateboarders and the tricks they made popular.

      Once again I listened to legends tell their stories and share something new about skateboarding history. These are the stories and skaters that have influenced my skateboarding and me as a person. I hope this book will give you a level of appreciation for the origins of these legendary tricks and skaters that have left their mark on us all, even if you don’t know it.

      Steve Badillo

      November 2009

      Why Do I Skateboard?

      In the mid-1980s, I got a subscription to Thrasher Magazine and really fell in love with skateboarding. Skateboarding at the time had a lot of colorful pro skateboarders, teams and companies. In one of those Thrasher Magazines was a poem written by Steve Alba, a pro for Santa Cruz Skateboards.

      I skate for peace of mind

      I skate to make myself happy

      I skate to make other people happy

      I skate to cool down my anger

      I skate to be with my friends

      I skate for my parents

      I skate for Santa Monica Airlines

      I skate for my wife and kids

      I skate to praise God

      I skate to be positive in skateboarding

      I skate to get my energies going

      I skate to test myself...

      But I don’t skate when the time isn’t right

      Because just then, I might take a bite.

      It struck a chord so I cut it out of the magazine and put it on my bedroom wall. It has been above my bed for some 26 years. I hope when you read this, you can relate to the words and that it will give you encouragement in your own skateboarding. Over time what I got out of this poem has changed, so I have enhanced it with a few additions. (Image C)

      Image C

      Part 1

      Early Tricks

      Image 1.1

      The early skate-boarding pioneers laid down the foundation of legendary tricks for younger generations to express themselves. A lot of these early tricks were based on fundamental moves. When you have a good grasp of the fundamentals, you set yourself up to create influential skateboard tricks, and that is what these legendary skaters did.

      These tricks are still being done and expanded upon by the new crop of skaters that are trying to make their mark on skateboarding. Some of the pro skaters from the 1970s are still skateboarding because it is their life. Skateboarding became the lifestyle they embraced and continue to live. Old School skate-boarding is skateboarding, and we all appreciate what these skaters started.

      01 Handstand

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      Handstand

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      Some legendary tricks have longevity—the trick was invented long ago, but you still see skateboarders doing it today. The Handstand is one of those skateboarding tricks. Even with the primitive skateboards of the early 1960s, someone, somewhere was bound to go upside down and try to ride the skateboard. What a crazy way to skateboard. Not on your feet, but in a Handstand.

      It is not certain when exactly the Handstand was invented. But in 1962, Ty Page saw someone do the trick, and it inspired him to become a pro freestyler. When skateboarding starting growing in popularity in the late 1960s, a skateboard company named Makaha Skateboards invented the kicktail, giving the skateboard more leverage and ultimately creating more tricks.

      The captain of the Makaha team was Bruce Logan, and he wanted Ty Page on the team, but he had to prove himself. Bruce said that Ty had to do a Handstand for four city blocks in order to make the team. So Ty found a hill in Hermosa Beach with a slight downhill angle and went for it. The Handstand, according to Ty Page, lasted at least four city blocks.

      Ty Page’s favorite place to do the Handstand was

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