Sector 9 Skateboards

Skateboarding is one of the most popular action sports in the world, with over 11 million active participants. The first skateboards were built in the late 1940s by California surfers. When the ocean was flat, they would ride the streets of the coastal communities on homemade wooden boards with wheels attached to the bottom. The expansion of skateboarding as a global outdoor activity was especially felt and seen in the 1960s and 1970s. The surfers of the asphalt created their own lifestyle, language, dress codes, and group hierarchies. Skateboarding rapidly became a sociological phenomenon with a tight and long-lasting impact on music, visual arts, dance, and street culture. The first generation of skating pioneers has now reached middle age