Rollerblading, skateboarding, etc Books
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Mutt
Book SynopsisThe world-champion freestyle skateboarder and the man who brought the ollie - the trick that revolutionised the sport by taking it from the ground to the air - to street skating shares the history of skateboarding, as he tells the dramatic story of his life.
£9.49
Oro Editions '93 til: A Photographic Journey Through
Book SynopsisTo be a skateboarder today is a much different experience than it was for much of the 1990s. The photographs, quotes, and anecdotal text in '93 til captures a time in skateboarding when making a liveable income as a professional skater was a luxury and public understanding of skateboarding was at an all-time low. It was a time when skateboarding was searching for an identity, a time before Instagram and big corporate influences. Street skating was coming of age, testing its limitations and aligning itself with a new and innovative style of hip-hop culture that was emerging. Looking back, many skaters today feel as though the '90s were the golden years of skateboarding. '93 til is a captivating portal into a decade and a culture that is remembered with warmth and nostalgia. Much of the photography that Pete has unearthed for '93 til was buried in boxes for close to two decades and has never been seen or published before. The 250-page book also contains several timeless images from his years shooting for SLAP and Transworld Skateboarding Magazine that will be familiar to the initiated. In addition to his stunning action shots are plenty of portraits and unguarded, candid moments that span from the late '80s up through 2004. The book reveals a raw, unapologetic perspective of a world that no longer exists. Also included in the book alongside Pete's imagery are quotes and anecdotes from legends like Tony Hawk, Arto Saari, Jamie Thomas, Guy Mariano, Nyjah Huston, Geoff Rowley, Stevie Williams and others.
£36.00
Akashic Books,U.S. Dogtown: The Legend of the Z-Boys
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£32.00
Acc Publishing Group Ltd Read and Destroy
Book SynopsisRead And Destroy the book that is. After years of archiving photos, scanning slides and looking for funding, a hardcover publication about the seminal UK skate magazine from the late 80s to mid- 90s can be in your hands very soon. Free Skateboard MagazineFor British skateboarders in the mid-'80s, RAD (aka Read and Destroy) was more than just a magazine. Before the X Games, before the internet, a whole generation of this once underground subculture relied on RAD to provide a beacon, bringing them together in spirit and in person.Under the guidance of editor and chief photographer, Tim Leighton-Boyce, RAD took on an experimental, irreverent approach with a vibrant, chaotic energy. The legacy of the magazine is an action-packed photo archive documenting a unique time, place and attitude, capturing the death and rebirth of skateboarding as it evolved into a mainstay of extreme sports and street culture the worl
£33.75
Phaidon Press Ltd Skateboard
Book SynopsisAn authoritative chronicle of the history and evolution of skateboard design from 1950 to the present day
£31.96
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. The Skateboard Art of Jim Phillips
Book SynopsisDive into skate history through vibrant decks, logos, photos & more. Explore Phillips' Studio, skate's evolution, and global impact in this colorful Jim Phillips retrospective.
£23.79
Globe Pequot Impossible
Book SynopsisThe Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating.Trade Review“David Foster Wallace on a skateboard.” — GQ “With its infectious enthusiasm, precise lyricism, and rigorous deeply-felt reporting, the book brings to life the sport’s historical roots, its cultural significance, and most of all, its artistic possibilities. I was hooked from the start. —Ian Crouch, The New Yorker “The last time I thought seriously about professional skateboarders, I was hoping to become one. This book blew it wide open for me. Until now, only obsessive freaks had any idea how interesting this sport is. And even obsessive freaks should stick around for the tale Louison has so lucidly spun. —John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Blood Horses and Pulphead “I’d never so much as stood on a board, let alone heard the names Sheckler and Mullen, but I found myself entranced by the fascinating cultural movement they created. The Impossible is a universal story, told in imminently readable fashion by a tremendously talented writer." --Michael Koryta, New York Times best-selling author of The Ridge and Those Who Wish Me Dead “The book provides a deep and nuanced insight into how contemporary skateboarding has evolved and where it will go. It honors the beauty, danger, and complexity of the sport, and lays bare its physical and psychological demands, and greatness. The Impossible is some of the finest writing on skating I’ve seen. I read it in one sitting." —Bret Anthony Johnston, best-selling author of Corpus Christi and Remember Me Like This
£13.49
Tracks Publishing,U.S. Skateboarding: Book of Tricks: Book of Tricks
Book SynopsisSerious skaters looking for unusual and innovative tricks will find them in this skateboarding instructional guide. The tricks run the gamut from classic old school to modern with an emphasis on diversification, creativity, and originality. Included are riding basics and tips for controlling fear, visualizing, and focusing. Sequential shots detail every move needed to successfully re-create the various skateboarding tricks. The mechanics of the sport are also covered, including types of boards available, and the various wheels, bearings, and skateboarding surfaces.
£11.66
Chronicle Books The Little Book of Roller Skating
Book SynopsisFrom the beloved brand Moxi Roller Skates comes The Little Book of Roller Skating, the go-to guide for all things roller skating! This book is filled to the brim with all the essentials you'll ever need no matter where you are in your skating journey, whether you're a beginner or have been skating for years. From the anatomy of the roller skate and skate maintenance to trick breakdowns and outdoor skating crash courses to DIY ideas and off-skate fitness suggestions, Moxi provides concise and accessible tips, so getting on wheels has never been easier. Learn about roller skating's physical and mental benefits, find out how you can get involved in the community and connect with other skaters around the world, take a quiz to find out what type of skater you are, and so much more! With engaging illustrations, infographics, beautiful photography, and pop history and other interesting facts throughout, The Little Book of Roller Skating isn't as fun as actually getting on your skates-but it sure is close!
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hawk
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£18.04
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Kickflip Boys A Memoir of Freedom Rebellion and
Book SynopsisTrade Review“With a dispassionate but tender eye, Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys—and of adolescence itself, observed and remembered.” — Michael Chabon “An honest account of raising creative, rebellious boys who happen to love skateboarding. Having been through the fire of raising a few free-thinking boys myself, I found Kickflip Boys to be fun, moving, raw, and relatable.” — Tony Hawk “Excellent. . . . Thompson’s remarkably honest account of fatherhood presents a scary, funny, and reflective read all at once.” — Library Journal (starred review) “Kickflip Boys is an amazing chronicle of parenthood, but what makes it so striking, so beautiful, is how well Neal Thompson not only understands the struggles of parenting, but also the strangeness of adolescence. It’s empathetic, and funny, and Neal Thompson nails it.” — Kevin Wilson “Heartfelt. . . . This memoir will provide humor and comfort for parents figuring out their kids.” — Publishers Weekly “With the emotional authority of the best novels, Thompson’s prose sings. I laughed out loud and cried all the way through. The voice is brave, funny and fiercely honest. Ultimately this wonderful book is about love. Because those we care about most will always surprise us.” — Peter Heller “A provocative and inspiring memoir that delves into the hopes and fears of parents as much as it delves into the hopes and fears of the children they are striving to raise. And, yes, it is about skateboarding. Which is the key—for the resilient Thompson family—to happiness and joy.” — Garth Stein
£19.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Skateboarding and Femininity Gender Spacemaking
Book SynopsisSkateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding's relationship to gender politics through a consideration of the personal politics connected to individual skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through gendered tropes. Through the author's work with skateboarding charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects, proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic practice perspective.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Getting connected to who you are1. Girls and Women Holding and Creating Space in Skateboarding2. Skateboarding and Feminism3. Skateboarding physical culture4. ‘Skateboard Philanthropy’: A somatic practice perspectiveConclusion: Skateboarding’s participation in the world beyond itself
£52.24
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Journal of a Skateboarder
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction • The photographs
£23.70
Little Bob An Awesome Skateboard Ride A Little Alan
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£5.21
Running Press Desktop Skatepark
Book SynopsisDesktop Skatepark has everything you need to assemble a miniature skatepark and do some fingerboarding right at your desk!Kit includes:* 1 mini skateboard* 2 sheets of full-color stickers to customize your board* quarterpipe* mini funbox (includes a bank ramp, stair set, grind rail, and wave ramp)* Instructional mini book
£9.05
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Skateboarding PastPresentFuture
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the history of skateboarding and profiles of some of America's most famous skateboarders.
£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Scars Stripes
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Funky exuberance dominates the book . . . a must-have for the sport's participants and fans. But what may surprise outsiders is the strong sense of family, commitment, and loyalty that emerges from these pictures; although men, who are relatively new to the sport, appear in the book, most affecting are the images of powerful, committed women celebrating their strength and outrageousness and mentoring young girls to do the same." —Publishers Weekly
£27.19
Ohio University Press Collective Chaos
Book SynopsisThrough stories about playing this full-contact, theatrical, and revolutionary sport, Collective Chaos shows the value of gaining a truly radical self-knowledge through teamwork, love, discipline, and critical consideration of our local and global societies and of our roles and responsibilities within them.Trade Review“Collective Chaos is an informative, witty, hilarious collision of all things roller derby. It has everything from a history of the sport to player profiles and even personal narrative. Samantha Tucker and Amy Spears have unique voices and an important message that anyone, regardless of skating experience, would benefit from reading.” -- Gabe Montesanti, author of Brace for Impact: A MemoirTable of ContentsIntroduction The Basics: What the Heck Is Roller Derby Anyway? 1 These United Skates Ohio Player Profile: The Tiny Dictator A Word from Amy Spears, Ohio Native 2 Small to Get Big Ohio Player Profile: The Humbly Great A Word from Amy Spears, Slightly Famous in Roller Derby 3 False Start Ohio Player Profile: The Wizard A Word from Amy Spears, Roller Derby Historian 4 Fresh Meat Ohio Player Profile: The Next Generation A Word from Amy Spears, Who Invented Roller Derby 5 Pivot Ohio Player Profile: The Mastermind A Word from Amy Spears, Married, Divorced, Remarried to Roller Derby 6 Mindful Jockdom Ohio Player Profile: The Inspiration A Word from Amy Spears, Washed-Up Roller Derby Skater 7 O-H-I-O Ohio Player Profile: The Force A Word from Amy Spears, Derby Lifer 8 Derby Veteran Ohio Player Profile: The Forever Rookies A Word from Amy Spears: The Season That Never Happened 9 We Got Tired Ohio Player Profile: Kegel’s Wife A Word from Amy Spears: Democracy and Protest 10 Racism in Roller Derby Ohio Player Profile: A Word from Pain Train A Word from Amy Spears: Roller Derby in the Future Epilogue Acknowledgments
£15.19
Scarecrow Press Roller Skating for Gold American Sports History
Book SynopsisGiven the popularity of all types of skatingâon the ice, on the boards, and on the streetsâwhy isn't roller skating an Olympic event? The answers âand there are manyâare likely to anger and astound readers in turn. The volume also explores the past and present world of competitive roller skating.Trade Review...plenty of thought-provoking information ... offer[s]... insight...for...those wanting to find out more about the sport. * Roller Skating Business *...Has got to be one of the highlights in the literature on roller skating. -- M.M. Red Shattuck, Member, U.S. Olympic Committee
£92.70
Rizzoli International Publications Mark Gonzales
Book SynopsisPart skate-photography heroics and part streetwear bible, this is the first book on Mark Gonzales, one of the most recognizable names in skateboarding.Trade Review"Renowned book publisher Rizzoli is releasing the first-ever book on the life and times of skate icon Mark Gonzales, and it sounds brilliant." —MONSTER CHILDREN "If anyone from skateboarding should have a book, it’s Mark Gonzales. Fortunately, this is [now] happening." —SKATE NEWSWIRE "The fun of making, the fun of designing, the fun of fooling around like a child. Hardly anybody embodies skateboarding like [Mark Gonzales]...and now the Spanish photographer Sem Rubio has dedicated a book to him." —SOLO SKATE MAG
£37.80
Pine Cone Press Teach Someone to Roller Skate Even Yourself
£10.03
Chronicle Books Silver. Skate. Seventies. Limited Edition
Book SynopsisA beautifully packaged limited-edition collector’s item version of Silver. Skate. Seventies. by renowned skateboarding photographer Hugh Holland. In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. Silver. Skate. Seventies. showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools. Drawing design inspiration from vintage photo packaging, this special, limited edition of only 500 numbered copies available worldwide features: A 12x15 inch box with a metallic printed sticker on the cover. The limited edition number of your enclosed copy of Silver. Skate. Seventies. (1-500), signed by Hugh Holland. A never-before-released 9 x 12-inch black-and-white gelatin silv
£225.00
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Skateboard
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going straight to the sources: the skaters, photographers, commentators, and industry insiders who made such an unlikely rise to worldwide juggernaut possible. Skateboarders are their own historians, which means the real history of skating exists not in archives or texts but in a hodgepodge of random and iconic videos, tattered photographs, and, mostly, in the blurry memories of the people who lived through it all. From California beaches to Tokyo 2020, the skateboard has outlasted its critics to form a global community of creativity, camaraderie, and unceasing progression.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewThis book is super tiny and will fit in the back pocket of some too-big-for-you jeans. . . . If you were the smart kid in your high school English class, read Skateboard. * Jenkem Magazine *Skateboard is zippy, poetic, and playful, yet grounded in history. And what a fascinating history it is! Clark moves with great and joyful agility between his profiles of pro-skaters and his meditations on the technologies that transformed skateboarding from a hobby into an artform. * Merve Emre, Associate Professor of English, University of Oxford, UK, and contributing writer at The New Yorker *Table of ContentsPrologue: Memory Screen 1. Since Day One 2. Photosynthesis 3. Video Days 4. Shackle Me Not 5. Beautiful Mutants Epilogue: This Is Skateboarding Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index
£9.49
Little, Brown & Company The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard
Book SynopsisIn January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood.What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married?Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime-often overlooked, regularly maligned-whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy-and what it continues to teach him as he struggles to find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.
£19.80
Gingko Press, Inc Push: J. Grant Brittain - '80s Skateboarding
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£44.00
Gingko Press, Inc Skateboarding Is Not a Fashion: Revised and
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£63.75
Gingko Press The Disposable Skateboard Bible
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£42.46
Trinity University Press,U.S. Rollergirls: The Story of Flat Track Derby
Book SynopsisFlat track roller derby is one of the country’s fastest growing sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with nearly two thousand leagues around the world.Rollergirls captures the spirit of the game, which is poised to become an Olympic sport, and highlights the women who have become known as the godmothers of modern-day roller derby. Documentary photographer Felicia Graham takes readers on a visual tour of more than 160 black-and-white images, showcasing the confidence it takes to become a rollergirl and the camaraderie that develops among the players. Focusing on the Texas League, where it all began, Graham celebrates the culture and personality of flat track derby everywhere.Despite their different reasons for joining the sport, women of varying professions, ages, and lifestyles have made roller derby uniquely their own. With tongue-in-cheek team names like the Hotrod Honeys and personas like Sparkle Plenty and Buckshot Betty, the players use their brains and brawn to master the strategic game while also expanding the sport internationally. It’s all done with bravado and a brash sense of humor unique to full-contact sports.Graham has been photographing the Texas Rollergirls on and off the track, in Texas and on the international circuit, for more than a decade. Spending untold hours with the league and collecting thousands of photographs of pivots and blockers, adoring crowds, and the sweat of the bench, she has created a visual narrative of women who embody the freedom of flying around the track. In these pages, readers learn how regular girls become rollergirls--determined, athletic, intimidating, and powerful, all on their own terms.Trade Review"The fact that I was, until encountering this book, largely ignorant of the details and scope of this group’s inspiring story, even though it happened in my own lifetime and in my necks of the woods, is a testament to the all the powerful everyday stories that, all over the world, still remain to be told and learned from." — San Antonio Current>/b> “Glorious.” — Austin American-Statesman “Graham conveys the frenzy of the sport—legs whizzing past in a line, a fallen player crying out in pain—but she also shows how roller derby offers the women a way to try on bolder, more unapologetically aggressive versions of themselves. ” — Texas Monthly "Photographer Graham’s spectacular photo-essay spotlights the glorious competition of the Texas Rollergirls’ flat track roller derby league. Shot exclusively in black and white, Graham’s photos showcase sensational action and also pay intimate, personal attention to the individual players. She presents the skaters as bold and fiercely dedicated; photos of women in fishnet stockings and tiny shorts in locker rooms with compact mirrors and eyeliner in hand give way to images of pregame warm-ups, team huddles, and action shots of collisions and bloody nose dives. The highlights are photos taken away from the track; images of players partying after the games, playing cheeky hijinks on competitors, and interacting with die-hard fans help reinforce Graham’s point that, for roller girls, roller derby is a special type of close-knit family. Graham’s outrageous and empowering photos capture the joy and spirit of this unique subculture." — Publishers Weekly "Graham has assembled one of the biggest visual archives of the world’s fastest-growing women’s sport." — Austin Chronicle "Her work captures the rough and tumble of competitive matches, as well as behind the scenes preparation and time away from the roller derby track." — Daily Mail UK
£22.79
University of Arkansas Press Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Changing
Book SynopsisOnce considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments, and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to energize skate parks—like soccer fields before them—as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital.Trade ReviewFor decades, skateboarders have considered themselves outside of mainstream culture. The skateboard, for these folks, is an emblem of independence, liberty, and creative provocation. As a lifelong skateboarder, I found Moving Boarders to be an accurate reflection of skateboarding's cultural qualities. More than ever, skateboarding presents a healthy—if sometimes subversive—option for today's youth. Moving Boarders is a vital account of what works in skateboarding." - Peter Whitley, Programs Director, Tony Hawk FoundationTable of Contents Introduction Youth Sports and the Urban Skateboarding Landscape 1. Neo-liberalism and the New Urban Spaces of Skateboarding 2. Social Enterprise Skateboarding Organizations: The Installation of New Public-Private Spaces for Youth and Community Development 3. “They Were All About Police, Police, Police...We Don't Need Police, We Need Parents”: Bay City’s Adult Organized Social Space 4. “I Want the Platform and Everybody’s Welcome”: Oakland’s Creation of Skateboarding “Hood Cred” 5. “There’s No End to The Pop Ups, the Towers, the High Rises, the Mid Rises, the Samsung’s and the Oracle’s”: Skateboarding in San Jose, “The Capital of Silicon Valley” 6. The Use of Skate Parks to Create New Spaces of Values for Youth, Families, and Urban Communities
£31.30
Orion Publishing Co Stick and Skate: Skateboard Stickers
Book SynopsisAn irresistible collection of artwork and 140 peelable stickers from iconic brands including Chocolate, Almost and HUF, this is a must-have for skate fans.Skateboarding is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and stickers remain at the heart of its vibrant - and often anarchic - culture. Now an Olympic sport, skateboarding will reach a whole new demographic and as Packard Fancher wonders in his foreword:"Will that change it? It's an exciting, if slightly concerning thought - traditionally we haven't liked outsiders meddling in our affairs. But rest assured: skateboarding, like graffiti and street art, will always attract outsiders, the independent kids who are drawn to the counterculture. These kids will still become obsessed with this useless wooden toy, whether it's cool or not. They'll love the graphics, the style, the vibe, the heroes, and the villains, and they'll continue to skate until their bodies can't take it anymore. They'll develop a network of friends that will last a lifetime, and they'll discover a ton about themselves, while shaping their own identity in the world. It'll be the same as it ever was!"Featuring interviews, photographs and both new and highly collectable classic stickers, this timely collection is perfect for skateboard fans of all ages.
£17.09
Av2 Inline Skating
£13.77
Chronicle Books Locals Only: 30 Posters
Book SynopsisLOCALS ONLY is a deluxe book of 30 removable and frameable posters by legendary skateboard photographer Hugh Holland. Throughout the 1970s, Holland documented not only the nascent sport that originated in Southern California, but also the style, grace, and athleticism of the teenagers themselves. During the mid-1970s, Southern California was experiencing a serious drought, leaving an abundance of empty swimming pools available for trespassing skateboarders to practice their tricks on. From these suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, L.A. was the place that created the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. Holland's photographs document these sidewalk surfers on the streets of Los Angeles, parts of the San Fernando Valley, Venice Beach, and as far away as San Francisco and Baja California, Mexico. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks, and Vans sneakers, these young outsiders are masterfully captured against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape.
£25.20
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body
Book SynopsisSkateboarders 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.Trade Review'Those few of us in the academy engaged in writing about the sociospatial relations of skating delight in the polished arguments that Borden presents over nine logically structured, pertinent and stylishly illustrated chapters.' Cultural Geographies Borden describes the emergence of not so much a sport as a way of life ... Its relation to architecture is kept beautifully clear ... a good read.' Building Design 'Skateboarders help us to think about buildings and their use. Borden argues that they draw our attention to the city as the site of perpetual change.' The Independent 'The first academic study of skateboarding.' Dazed and Confused 'There's absolutely no way I can do [the] work justice here the book is incredibly thought-provoking, especially from the perspective of actually being a skateboarder. I highly recommend it.' Sidewalk 'A fine book that I recommend to any skateboarder who can read at a college level.' Big Brother 'Borden owes as much to 30 year The book is excellently researched and draws upon an exhaustive aumount of secondary data on skateboarding. A highly original and extremely well written text that discusses the historical and cultural meaning of skateboarding through an engagin reading of the work of Lefebvre and others. University of Sussex
£33.99
Tracks Publishing,U.S. Skateboarding: New Levels: Tips and Tricks for
Book SynopsisAn instructional guide to an increasingly popular sport, this book reviews the basics of skateboarding, the mental and emotional side of the sport, and what it takes to become an advanced skater. As aggression is a key factor to skating success, this book attempts to pinpoint where the risks begin to outweigh a skater’s chance for reward and success. Also included are sequential shots of 25 street and park tricks, to help skaters visualize and learn new concepts and skills.Trade ReviewFollow-up guide to Skateboarder's Start Up: A Beginner's Guide to Skateboarding.
£11.35
Tracks Publishing,U.S. Street Skateboarding: Flip Tricks: Flip Tricks
Book SynopsisWith sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to a performance cornerstone—the flip trick—benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. Often combined with curb tricks and applied to such obstacles as handrails and ramps, flip tricks are commonly used as the final touch on a more complex maneuver, and, with this guidebook, readers learn the basics of such tricks while progressing toward veteran moves. A section devoted to the history of skateboarding is included with an in-depth look at the individuals responsible for the creation of flip tricks and how they came to invent this aspect unique to skateboarding.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Kickflip; Switch Kickflip; Heelflip; Switch Heelflip; Varial Heelflip; Switch Varial Heelflip; 360 Flip; Fakie 360 Flip; Backside Half Cab Kickflip; Frontside Half Cab Kickflip; Backside Half Cab Heelflip; Frontside Half Cab Heelflip; Nollie Kickflip; Fakie Kickflip; Frontside Pop Shuvit; Backside Pop Shuvit; Backside 180 Kickflip; Frontside 180 Kickflip; Varial Kickflip; Nollie Half Cab Kickflip; Nollie Backside Kickflip; Frontside 180 Heelflip; Backside 180 Heelflip; Fakie Big Spin Heelflip; Nollie Frontside 180 Heelflip; Nollie Backside 180 Heeflip; Hardflip; Nollie Big Spin; Switch Inward Heelflip; Fakie Inward Big Spin Heelflip; Index.
£11.35
Tracks Publishing,U.S. Skateboarding: Ramp Tricks: Ramp Tricks
Book SynopsisRamp tricks—skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipes—are a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs. A brief history of ramp skateboarding examines the birth of the genre as well as champions of the sport, including the pioneering Dogtown Crew and current stars Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk.
£11.35
Tracks Publishing,U.S. Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks: Legendary Tricks
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guidebook that details dozens of spectacular skateboarding stunts, this resource combines invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each trick is captured in action sequence and captioned so that aspiring riders can learn how each trick is performed. A history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors, is also included. This blend of background and how-to ensures that riders not only learn the tricks but also gain respect for the legends that made skateboarding the worldwide passion it is today.
£11.35
Tracks Publishing,U.S. Skateboarder's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to
Book SynopsisProviding updated and revised chapters on safety, equipment, and basic skills, this instructional guide discusses the fundamentals of skateboarding. Presented in a helpful question and answer format, beginners will find information on buying a first board, where to plant one’s feet, how to stay safe while learning new stunts, and the history of this exciting sport. From ollies to kickturns, detailed techniques are presented on the 15 tricks every skater should know. Honest and humorous interviews with skating professionals are included, along with an invaluable list of resources—including books, camps, museums, skate parks, shops, websites, and magazines. With more than 500 new images, step-by-step instructions and photographs illustrate the foolproof methods to turn skateboarding novices into experts.
£11.66
Tracks Publishing,U.S. Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2: Legendary
Book SynopsisCompiling more legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details dozens of spectacular stunts—combining 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.Trade Review"This is a strong addition to collections; it's great for browsing, for readers seeking tips and instruction, and for those interested in learning about the history of skateboarding." --School Library Journal on Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks
£11.66
OverTime Books Skateboarding: From Dogtown to the X-Games
Book SynopsisRead 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.
£7.59
Headpress Small Town Skateparks
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£12.59
Penned in the Margins Out for Air
Book SynopsisOut for Air is the exhilarating first collection by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd. Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality'. Each poem is its own event: expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering. Todd rewires T. S. Eliot's Waste Land in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the spirit of the place. From Manhattan's 'silky streets' and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things. 'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut. Todd writes with a tangible physicality, solid as a curb, so that the language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' LUKE KENNARDTrade Review'Olly Todd makes rare, richly idiomatic music from the rubble of the pop metropolis. Like the pro skateboarder whose world is here uniquely evoked, Todd approaches the built environment through drift and detour, finding hidden lines of desire and happenstance. These often balladic poems are gorgeously wrought and idiosyncratic, scored with the subterranean rhythms of Cumbria, California and London. The air of the book is at once as intimate as its city nightcaps and as expansive as its bay vistas. When I read Todd's poems I feel more a part of the world, the textured interaction of time and place, the 'afternoons julienned / Into cigarettes, cider trips', 'the circles we insist on travelling'. This is a tender, transformative, elemental book.' SAM BUCHAN-WATTS;'Out for Air is an inventive and alluring debut, in which the early evening sun lights up the soaring, exhilarating miles of skateable road and sky between the north of England and the USA. With shades of Kleinzahler and Eliot, these poems explore angles and movement, friendship and distance, in a voice that is genuinely original, graceful and often strange.'MARTHA SPRACKLAND; 'Olly Todd's wonderful Out for Air creates a world of familiarity gone strange, a world of signs of the human in motion, where the living in place becomes its constant study. It makes a hard to pin down language which is all its own, and which mirrors its subjects' international scope, its playful, sometimes arch, worldview, and which announces a wholly original voice.' WILL BURNS; 'It's really weird, as I am reading Olly's poems I am engaging with a part of my brain I forgot existed. It's kinda like when you try a mindfulness app and the narrator asks you to focus on or pay particular attention to eating, say, a nut or a raisin. Through his words a whole world and potential opens up, a distillation of experience that feels universal and intimate.' NICK JENSEN; 'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut. Todd writes with a tangible physicality, solid as a curb, so that the language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' LUKE KENNARD; 'Olly Todd’s debut collection, Out for Air, is one of acute angles and constant surprise. His is a somewhat degraded diction, at least in the sense of his rarely reaching for an ornately lyrical register; instead there is something brutalist, a language made of concrete and artful lighting. It’s rare to encounter a new poet whose work is absolutely unpredictable, from one line to the next, but Todd is capable of jarring shifts, refreshing coinages. [...] These are poems as atmosphere – rich in poise, and somewhat sui generis, blending modernist urges towards cataloguing the metropolis with something of Todd’s own' Declan Ryan, The Poetry Review
£9.49
AMMO Books LLC Locals Only: Skateboarding in California
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£15.99
Daylight Books Skaters: Tintype Portraits of West Coast
Book SynopsisThe portraits in Skaters compel the subject, the photographer, and the viewer to slow down. These images, created with wet plate collodion, offer an honest glimpse into the skateboarders' core being: pensive, tough, playful, anxious, distracted, and innocent. Even the plates of seemingly empty skate parks are in fact teeming with immense energy and motion, yet the skaters are moving too quickly to be captured with long exposures. Jenny Sampson earned a BA in Psychobiology at Pitzer College and has since dedicated her time to her photographic endeavors: wet plate collodion, traditional black and white photography, and commissioned portraits.Trade Review“...beautiful portraiture in a subculture usually defined by movement.”, - The Guardian, November 3, 2017 Also featured by: Photo District News Lenscratch Huck Magazine
£28.79
Prestel Skate Like a Girl
Book SynopsisIn ever-increasing numbers, girls and women are gathering at skate parks and competing in skateboarding events on nearly every continent. In stunning photographs of remarkable female skaters in action, this book celebrates the incredible range of styles, ethnicities, and ages that make up a rapidly growing community. Skate Like a Girl features professional skaters, pioneers and newcomers, skate photographers and filmmakers, downhill skateboarders, longboarders, and gold medalists. You’ll meet skaters who are moms, models, artists, and engineers. What they all have in common is that skating is their way of life. Hailing from all over the world, each woman is profiled in her own words of wisdom about going after her dreams, falling hard, and getting right back up. Filled with empowering images and inspiring words, this book will encourage girls and women of every age to get on a board and shred!
£23.99
Die Gestalten Verlag Urban Playgrounds: Athletes Claim Cities Around
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£32.00
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Freestyle Skateboard Book Part-1: Young and Old
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£20.69
