The A to Z of Skateboarding

The A to Z of Skateboarding
Author: Tony Hawks
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1783526742

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For more than twenty years, Tony Hawks has been mistaken for Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder. Even though it is abundantly clear on his website that he is an English comedian and author, people still write to him asking the best way to do a kickflip or land a melon. One mischievous day he started writing back in a pompous tone, goading his correspondents for their spelling mistakes and poor grammar, while offering bogus or downright silly advice on how to improve their skateboarding. Featuring entries on parents' pain, disappointment, underachievers, Quorn and the Vatican, this is his A to Z guide to the world of skateboarding, as seen through the eyes of someone who knows absolutely nothing about it.

The Z-Boys and Skateboarding

The Z-Boys and Skateboarding
Author: Jameson Anderson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781429601504

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Describes the birth of the Z-Boys skateboarding team and how they influenced modern skateboarding. Written in graphic-novel format.

Drop in to the Deep End

Drop in to the Deep End
Author: Xavier Niz
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2009
Genre: Graphic novels
ISBN: 1434215814

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Fifteen year old Skip Jenson moves from California to Ohio. His skateboarding passion finds him new friends and new challenges.

Skateboarding

Skateboarding
Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1884654355

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Demonstrates famous skateboarding tricks performed by legendary riders such as Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, along with a brief history and step-by-step instructions for each trick.

Skateboarding Is Not a Fashion

Skateboarding Is Not a Fashion
Author: Jurgen Blumlein
Publisher: Gingko Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781584236306

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The way apparel has been worn and created by skateboarders has had a tremendous impact on popular culture at large. Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion documents all aspects of this aesthetic movement; from its roots in the 1950s as an offshoot of surfing culture, to the 1980s. Nearly every area of garment design was touched by skate wear's aesthetic - influencing the design and fashion of innumerable media from printed T-shirts to board shorts and denim to track suits along the way.

The Z-Boys and Skateboarding

The Z-Boys and Skateboarding
Author: Jameson Anderson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781429601504

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Describes the birth of the Z-Boys skateboarding team and how they influenced modern skateboarding. Written in graphic-novel format.

Skate Life

Skate Life
Author: Emily Chivers Yochim
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-12-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 047205080X

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"Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation." ---Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University, author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature "With her elegant research design and sophisticated array of anthropological and media studies approaches, Emily Chivers Yochim has produced one of the best books about race, gender, and class that I have read in the last ten years. In a moment where celebratory studies of youth, youth subcultures, and their relationship to media abound, this book stands as a brilliantly argued analysis of the limitations of youth subcultures and their ambiguous relationship to mainstream commercial culture." ---Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California "Yochim has made a valuable contribution to media and cultural studies as well as youth and American studies by conducting this research and by coining the phrase 'corresponding cultures,' which conceptualizes the complex and dynamic processes skateboarders employ to negotiate their identities as part of both mainstream and counter-cultures." ---JoEllen Fisherkeller, New York University Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding's portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media texts (such as, for example, Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Dogtown and Z-Boys). The book uses these elements to argue that adolescent boys can both critique dominant norms of masculinity and maintain the power that white heterosexual masculinity offers. Additionally, Yochim uses these analyses to introduce the notion of "corresponding cultures," conceptualizing the ways in which media audiences both argue with and incorporate mediated images into their own ideas about identity. In a strong combination of anthropological and media studies approaches, Skate Life asks important questions of the literature on youth and provides new ways of assessing how young people create their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, Allegheny College. Cover design by Brian V. Smith

Silver. Skate. Seventies.

Silver. Skate. Seventies.
Author:
Publisher: Chronicle Chroma
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781452182056

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In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that inspired the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders evoke the sometimes reckless but always exhilarating origins of skateboarding lifestyle and culture.

The Skateboard

The Skateboard
Author: Ben Marcus
Publisher: MVP Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1610602099

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The story of the simple skateboard is part thriller, part underground, underdog success tale. It’s chock-full of innovations, far-out graphic artistry, and ever-more-incredible hot-dogging feats. And the story’s told in this book with contributions from the stars themselves—Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Jeff Ho, the Dogtown Z-Boys, and more. Beautifully illustrated with historical posters, ads, and memorabilia along with new action photography, studio skateboard shots, and unique portraits of the stars, this is a fitting tribute to an American classic.

The Answer is Never

The Answer is Never
Author: Jocko Weyland
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780802139450

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Chronicles skateboarding's rise in popularity, interweaving the stories of early skaters while discussing how innovations in board design enabled new tricks as the sport evolved.