The Tao Of Skateboarding

When skateboarders skate they experience a euphoric rush. They have a clear mind and the ability to see with the heart. The many principals that apply to skateboarding fit into a framework for how we approach, process, problem solve, persist, and overcome the challenges and hardships of living. This book offers you the opportunity to experience the great wisdom which is equally poignant in life as it is in the street or the skate park.

This was channeled from Lao Tzu through me to give modern understanding to his historical knowledge. The meter was carefully selected to keep as close to possible the original intent. May it serve you, your family, your loved ones and all of humanity.My hope is that after reading this you will become better, more loving, more tolerant people who happen to enjoy rolling through life on 4 wheels, some steel and a piece of wood.

Sophie Friedel explores the action of skateboarding in her book as a way to escape cycles of despair, not only in war torn environments and regions affected by poverty. The author critically reflects on her involvements of teaching skateboarding in Afghanistan within the context of youth empowerment and peace work. By way of personal experiences, Friedel illustrates how skateboarding can be understood as an elicitive approach to peace work and conflict transformation that unfolds the extraordinary human potential inherent to all of us.

Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty-four skateboarding tricks, including old school, spine, and new school stunts, and includes an interview with skateboarder and coach Steve Badillo.

When teenage martial arts champion Flower Green competes in the 2020 Olympic Games, her dream of representing her country and winning gold in tae kwon do comes true. Once the excitement fades, she is at loose ends—she won the ultimate prize, so where does she go from there? Against his better judgement, her teacher and mentor, Freddy, reveals that there is only one place he can direct her to learn the highest level of martial arts. The problem is, she will have to leave her family behind and travel halfway across the world alone to face cruelty and harsh conditions under the guidance of Chin, a bitter and unyielding master. As her training pushes her farther than she thought she could ever go, Flower slowly wins over the old man with her dedication and resilience. But will it be enough to allow her to compete in the Dance of Dragons tournament, a secret society of the most skilled and deadly fighters in the world?

How to skateboard ? If you are currently reading this then it means that you're already passionate about skateboarding. Or that you dream about skateboarding but you don't even own one.This guide is here to help loosen your inflamed tibias after a little session with your friends, to pass the time in the toilets, at the beach or even during maths or history. We'll keep that one to ourselves.Through these pages, written by skaters for skaters, you'll learn the flat, grinds, the ramp, how to be the king of the skateboarding game, to innovate and finally, most importantly, having fun on your board and enjoying it while doing so.Skateboarding is a world far more vast than we think, with various types of people from different backgrounds. That's the beauty of it. Moreover there are absolutely no rules which also means no limits. Each skater is free to do as he pleases, to create his tricks, modules, to film...This book will teach beginners, as well as confirmed skaters, the nearly full amount of existing skateboarding tricks to this day.Not wanting to do things halfway, and being truly passionate about skateboarding, I've pushed this book as far as I can to teach you how to skate as best I can.

For more than twenty years, Tony Hawks has been mistaken for Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder. Even though it is abundantly clear on his website that he is an English comedian and author, people still write to him asking the best way to do a kickflip or land a melon. One mischievous day he started writing back in a pompous tone, goading his correspondents for their spelling mistakes and poor grammar, while offering bogus or downright silly advice on how to improve their skateboarding. Featuring entries on parents' pain, disappointment, underachievers, Quorn and the Vatican, this is his A to Z guide to the world of skateboarding, as seen through the eyes of someone who knows absolutely nothing about it.