The sport has gone from grass root home-made boards, to being one of the most popular sports in the USA, only to crash into oblivion before resurfacing as a past time for punks and kids up to no good. Despite the changing point of view of popular opinion, the sport has held a core of devotees who kept the sport alive when it seemed all but forgotten.
These days it?s the same devotees who are working hard to keep the sport pure, desperately trying to steer the future of boarding away from clutches of the politically correct mass manufacturing power of big business. Perhaps one of the most important figures in the current history of skateboarding is a relatively unknown guy by the name of P.D.
P.D. started, owns and still runs the now infamous skateboard company Skull Skates. Skull Skates, from day one, has been making boards for the serious boarders helping to push and progress the sport to where it is today. They?re noted as having released one of the very first ?double kick? boards, and became one of the first companies to adopt the current ?popsicle stick? board design.
The fast majority of the board images used in this infographic come from the Skull Skates skateboard museum, P.D?s personal collection of historic boards. While he has no idea I stole all of his pictures, I can?t thank him enough for putting them online.
If you enjoy this infographic, please take some time to take a look at the Skull Skates webpage, and maybe even buy yourself a new deck.
Source: http://news.silveroakcasino.com/entertainment/the-history-of-skateboarding-infographic.html
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