Sports & Recreation Skateboarding
Skateboarding
From Dogtown to the X-Games
- Publisher
- Editions de la Montagne Verte
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2006
- Category
- Skateboarding, Sports, Extreme Sports
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897277003
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
Read about the culture of skateboarding...the early daredevils and the new breed of innovators.
•Skateboarding's growing pains and the flagship company, Powell and Peralta, which made legends out of ramp riders like lance Mountain, Steve Caballaro and Tony Hawk
•The '90s revival that saw a fresh breed of innovator who took skateboarding back into the street in ways people had never imagined possible
•The X-Games, video games, a million up and comers and that elusive 900: skateboarding finds a permanent home in the 21st century.