Knowra Skateboarding Skateboarding Skateboarding is riding a skateboard for transportation, recreation, or sport. It includes street and ramp disciplines in which riders perform tricks using the board and terrain.
Skateboard : A narrow board mounted on two trucks and four wheels, designed to be ridden while standing. Its deck, trucks, wheels, and bearings determine how a rider steers and performs tricks.
Street skateboarding : A skateboarding discipline that uses urban-style obstacles such as stairs, rails, ledges, and banks. It turns features of the built environment into routes for tricks.
Surfing : A water sport in which a person rides a moving wave on a surfboard. Skateboarding drew early inspiration from surfers seeking a land-based way to ride.
Longboarding : A form of skateboarding using a longer deck, often designed for cruising, downhill riding, or dancing. Its longer boards and common riding goals differ from trick-focused skateboarding.
Skateboarding subculture : A youth and lifestyle culture shaped by skateboard riding, visual styles, music, media, and shared spaces. The activity fostered its own aesthetics, communities, and forms of cultural expression.
Ollie : A skateboard jump in which the rider lifts the board without using the hands. The ollie is the foundational pop-and-slide motion behind many airborne tricks.
Park skateboarding : A skateboarding discipline performed in bowls and purpose-built courses with curved transitions and ramps. Its curved terrain supports flowing lines, aerial tricks, and transitions between obstacles.
California : A state on the western coast of the United States, with a major role in modern skateboarding’s development. Southern California’s surf culture and communities shaped early skateboard riding.
Snowboarding : A winter sport in which a rider descends snow-covered terrain on a single board attached to both feet. It shares board-riding culture and trick vocabulary but uses snow instead of pavement.
Skateboarding photography : Photography documenting skateboarders, tricks, places, and the culture surrounding the sport. Photographs helped circulate skateboarding’s visual language and record tricks and scenes.
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