history of skate

History:

The sport of skateboarding has evolved greatly from its origins in the late 1940's and early 1950's when surfers in California added wheels to wooden boxes and found a fun distraction to spend days without waves. In the 1970s, a major transformation in the material they were made ​​wheels popularized the sport further. An industry dedicated to perfecting the tables and allowed the development of new styles like vert (almost vertical skate ramp) teams, born thanks to a drought in California in 1976 which left many empty pools, and tricks.

In the 1980's and 90's the high cost of building ramps and specialized parks for sport forced the skaters on the streets, and since then transiting the world's great cities on its wheels. Tony Hawk immortalized the sport with its popular video games in the late 1990's. 

Today, more than 18.5 million young people are skateboards, making it one of the most popular action sports.

Skateboarding is a sport that is slipping on a board with wheels and in turn to perform variety of tricks, many of them raising the floorboard and making shapes and spins her in the aire.1 It is practiced with a skateboard, table flat and folded the ends and having two axes (trucks) and four wheels, preferably on a flat surface, anywhere where you can roll either on the street or in wooden skateparks.

Vocabulary : 
Table (deck): Skateboard. 
Pop: Action chopping the ground with the Nose or tail. Also Describes the ability of a table "bounce" to make higher tricks. 
Trucks: Axles. Mechanisms that connect the wheels to the table with a suspension and axle bearings. 
Lija: Rough surface on the skate. It is used as fastening the feet on the skateboard, although resulting in heavy wear shoes. 
Half pipe: Literally translated into Spanish as "half pipe". This term refers to the usually high and steep ramps, as if they were half a circle, hence the name. 
Freestyle or freestyle: Former section skate competitions. Was to invent tricks and combinations of tricks, usually very complex and you showed on your turn. Currently it is a genre that encompasses several tricks. 
Freestyle tricks: Those who have something to do with the old freestyle and, many times, they have no name. It is now practiced very little class, but in the seventies was booming. 
Nose: Front side of the table. It can be differentiated because it is higher than the "tail". 
Tail: Backside of the table. 
Nail: Term used to demonstrate that a grind or lip placed correctly.
Ollie: A term used to jump 
Skate: A term used to refer to a battle of tricks with the skateboard between skaters and their respective shifts. 

Skater: Describes a person with skateboard skating.