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Abbotswood Design Group is a full service professional Landscape Architectural firm specializing cutting edge recreation based design including skateparks, terrain parks, BMX parks and other high NRG features. Fred Ogram, ASLA (Landscape Architect and owner) grew up in SoCal in the 70’s surfing and skating everywhere-from Dog Town to Upland. His experience in skating everything from pools, drainage channels, ramps, streetstyle, and freestyle eventually found its way into the early skate parks of California. He was a sponsored competitor and avid rider for many years during skateboarding’s renaissance. Upon graduating from college Fred has utilized his experience as a skater and knowledge as a Landscape Architect to form a stable platform from which he has designed many exciting park experiences throughout the US and abroad.

As a skater for nearly thirty years Fred knows what it takes to put together a winning plan that flows and grows with the sports natural evolution. Abbotswood and Grindline have formed a unique win-win working relationship over the years to better serve the skating community throughout the world. While Grindline has become known as THE premier in-ground concrete contractor, Abbotswood continues to excel and specialize in the comprehensive planning and park design process (especially difficult sites & locations worldwide).

 

With the evolution of skateparks and ramp riding, the skateboard began to change. Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional maneuvers (e.g. riding on only two wheels (wheelie,a.k.a. manual), spinning like an ice skater on the back wheels (a 360 pivot), high jumping over a bar (nowadays called a “Hippie Jump”), long jumping from one board to another (often over a line of small barrels or fearless teenagers lying on their backs), and slalom.

In 1976, skateboarding was transformed by the invention of the first modern skateboarding trick by Alan “Ollie” Gelfand. It remained largely a unique Florida trick from 1976 until the summer of 1978, when Gelfand made his first visit to California. Gelfand and his revolutionary manoeuver caught the attention of the West Coast skaters and the media where it began to spread worldwide. An ollie is performed by popping the tail of the skateboard, sliding the front foot towards the nose and lifting up the back foot to level the skateboard out. This results in the skateboarder, along with his or her skateboard, lifting into the air without the aid of foot straps or the skateboarder’s hands.

The ollie was reinvented by Rodney Mullen in 1981, who adapted it to freestyle skating by ollieing on flat ground rather than out of a vert ramp. Mullen also invented the ollie kickflip, which, at the time of its invention, was dubbed the “magic flip.” The flat ground ollie allowed skateboarders to perform tricks in mid-air without any more equipment than the skateboard itself. The development of these complex tricks by Rodney Mullen and others transformed skateboarding. Skateboarders began performing their tricks down stair sets and on other urban obstacles - they were no longer confined to empty pools and expensive wooden ramps.

The act of “ollieing” onto an obstacle and sliding along it on the trucks of the board is known as grinding, and has become a mainstay of modern skateboarding. Types of grinds include the 50-50 grind (balancing on the front and back trucks while grinding a rail), the 5-0 grind (balancing on only the back truck while grinding a rail) the nose grind (balancing on only the front truck while grinding a rail), and the crooked grind (balancing on the front truck at an angle while grinding). There are various other grinds that involve touching both the trucks and the deck to the rail, ledge, or lip. The most common of these is the smith grind, in which the rider balances over the back truck while touching the outer middle of the board to the grinding surface in the direction from which he or she ollied. Popping and landing on the back truck and touching the inner edge of the board, i.e. popping “over”, is known as a feeble grind. Boardslides, lipslides, noseslides, and tailslides are other variations of grinding that are characterized by sliding on an obstacle while balancing on the (usually wooden) deck of the skateboard, rather than on the trucks.

Skate punk typically uses four-note basslines, surf-like drums, and fast, Ramones-style guitar. Mostly played on the upbeat instead of the downbeat, skatecore is known for emulating the “feel” of skating—much in the same way surf sought to emulate the feel of surfing. Skate punk utilizes quick uptempo “jumps” of silence at the end of the measure to emphasize the start of the riff. As many band members as well as much of the audience were skaters, a scene developed distinct from the larger punk scene. Bands used a similar aggression as hardcore, but with different musical topics. At the time of the emergence of this genre, skateboarding was still seen as an outcast activity (similar to that of surfing, from which skateboarding has its origins). Many bands used that ‘outcast’ feeling, of being a skater, and thus the stereotypes that came with that, as fuel for their music. Often, bands like JFA would talk about their problems with police, or “preps,” and the harsh treatment they received from them, in their songs and albums.

Many bands of the “Nardcore” music scene from Oxnard, California—such as Rich Kids on LSD, Dr. Know, Agression, Habeas Corpus, Scared Straight, and Ill Repute—are extensions of this genre. Despite coverage in Thrasher Magazine, this style of punk differs from thrash. The legendary 1970s skateboarder Duane Peters grew into skate punk via skateboarding, forming three skate punk bands: Turn Your Head and Cough, U.S. Bombs and later The Hunns (also known as Duane Peters and the Hunns, die Hunns). Other bands associated with skateboarding are Guttermouth, The Faction, Los Olvidados, Free Beer, Drunk Injuns, Lagwagon, NOFX, Sheglank’d Shoulders, Gang Green, Suicidal Tendencies, Descendents, Adolescents, Agent Orange, Skate Death, Black Flag, SideSixtySeven, Clay Wheels, Big Boys, The Sidewalk Surfers, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, The NoNamed, and JFA.

History

In the 1980s, music by hardcore punk bands such as Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, and the Circle Jerks were very popular among skateboarders. Some bands, like JFA and Big Boys, are considered by many as two of the first ’skate punk’ bands[citation needed]. They were skateboarders that also played in punk bands and used their passion for skateboarding in the context of many of their songs. In 2002, Canadian rock singer Avril Lavigne was originally marketed as a skater punk/rebel, even though she played pop-rock, Post-grunge and rock songs specifically with her hit song and video “Sk8er Boi”. Lavigne later shed her “punk” image, but she is still called “Pop-Punk princess” Other examples of this are Free Beer and Los Olvidados. Many of these bands were regularly covered in Thrasher, a skateboarding magazine that also helped develop the skate punk scene. Thrasher released many skate videos, featuring the music of these bands on the soundtrack.

The movement of skate punk reached an all time high in the 1990s[citation needed] with the formation of the Vans Warped Tour, whose first tour featured Sublime and female rock band L7. The 1997 Warped Tour featured performances by bands classifiable as skate punk, such as the reunited Descendents, The Faction, Lagwagon, The Suicide Machines, SNFU, Pennywise, face to face, Millencolin, The Offspring, Bones Brigade and The Bouncing Souls.

Skateboarding has long been a male-dominated sport; a survey in 2002 estimated that only 26 percent of skateboarders are female.

In the early years of the sport, few female skaters gained widespread visibility; Peggy Oki, Ellen O’Neal, and Ellen Berryman were a few who achieved fame in the 1970s. The skateboarding boom in the 1990s, coupled with an overall advancement in womens’ sports, produced more female skaters than in previous decades. Skaters such as Elissa Steamer and Cara-Beth Burnside elevated women’s skateboarding to a new level. This trend continued into the new millennium with Amy Caron, Vanessa Torres, and Lyn-z Adams Hawkins. Presently, skateboarding competitions for women can be seen at all major skateboarding events, such as the X-games, the Gravity Games, and the Slam City Jam.

There are many female-only skate companies, sessions, and camps to help advance the female skateboarding movement. An alliance of professional female skaters has also been established. There have been two major skate films focusing on female skaters - Getting Nowhere Faster and AKA: Girl Skater.

Skate rock is mainly a term used for rock, punk and heavy metal bands, generally from the 1980s and the 1990s, who were involved in the sport of skateboarding. Some prime examples of skate rock bands are McRad, JFA, the Faction, the Big Boys, Agent Orange, Suicidal Tendencies, The Suicide Machines, U.S. Bombs, Lagwagon, Minor Threat and Drunk Injuns. The term “skate rock” usually refers to rock bands that occupied a middle ground between hard rock and soft rock, intermixed with both punk and non-punk skateboarding culture.
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Skate rock vs. skate punk

Music

There is some confusion over the term “skate rock,” since some skate rock bands don’t skateboard, and many musicians that do skate don’t play skate rock. Also, not all skate rock bands are punk bands, as not all skaters are punks (and not all punks are skaters), so they are called “skate rock” to differentiate them from the skate punk style. In this case, “skate rock” would refer to bands that mix traditional non-punk skateboarding culture with traditional non-punk rock music. As skateboarding was originally tied to surfing, skate rock can sometimes be considered closer in style to surf rock than skate punk. Additionally, while skate punk is a subgenre of hardcore punk, which is considered “anti-establishment”, skate rock can be considered a more “traditional” form of rock music, the non-punk counterpart of skate punk. Skate rock lacks the aggressiveness, rebelliousness, confrontational nature, or rage often inherent in skate punk and other hardcore punk subgenres. Simple rhythms, acoustic/electric guitar interplay, keyboards, and surf-and arena-style drums define the instrumental sound, and vocally, the music is far closer to surf rock or arena rock than skate punk, although like skate punk, the lyrics will occasionally focus on, or at least reference skateboarding. As skate punk is often portrayed as “extreme”, skate rock is softer, gentler, and more bombastic.

Culture

As skateboarding’s original popularity was originally tied to punk, the non-punk side of skateboarding culture is lesser-known. However, recently, with skateboarders listening to other genres of music, the skateboarder’s “punk” association is diminishing. As “skate punks” dress in out-of-the-ordinary punk fashion, traditional skaters dress in clothing similar to surfers, other kinds of athletes, or hard rock bands, and sometimes a mix of the three. While clothes worn by “skate punks” includes thrift store clothing or anything that openly rejects mainstream clothing, traditional skateboarders wear slightly modified versions of mainstream clothing. A skate punk’s attire is baggy, chained, and spiked, and strewn with holes and rips, but a traditional skater’s clothing is more sophisticated and refined.

Skateboard Deck Brands

* 5boro
* Acme
* Alien Workshop
* Almost
* Alva
* Angel Boy
* Anti-Hero Skateboards
* Avera
* ANGR
* A-Team
* Baker
* Birdhouse
* Black Label
* Blind
* Bling
* Blueprint
* Bones
* Bullet
* City
* City Stars
* Creation
* Creature
* Crime
* Chocolate
* Confidential Skate
* Consolidated
* Darkstar
* Deca skateboards
* DGK
* Disaster
* Dogtown
* Element
* Moskates
* Enjoi
* Expedition-One
* Finesse Skateboards
* The Firm
* Flip
* Foundation
* G&S
* Girl
* Gravity Skateboards
* Hessenmob
* Habitat
* Hook-Ups
* Hosoi
* H-Street
* Kryptonics
* Krooked
* Liberty
* Listen
* Matthew Cottrell Is Dumb
* Menace
* Mongoose
* Mystery
* Natural Koncepts
* New Deal
* Plan B
* Platinum
* Popwar
* Powell
* Prime
* Real Skateboards
* Santa Cruz
* Shorty’s
* Shut
* Sideshow
* SK8MAFIA
* Skull
* S.M.A.
* Stink
* Stereo Sound Agency
* Think
* Toy Machine
* Trust
* Variflex
* Vision
* World Industries
* Zero
* Zoo York
* Zodiac Skateboards
* 101
* 1080

Skateboard Wheel Brands

* Darkstar
* Hubba
* Legacy
* Pig Wheels
* Point Blank
* Popwar
* Ricta
* Satori Movement
* Spitfire
* Autobahn Wheel Company

Skateboard Truck Brands

* Destructo
* Element
* Fury
* Grind King
* Independent
* Venture
* Tensor
* Thunder
* Silver
* Krux
* Phantom
* Royal
* Ruckus
* Navigator
* Royal Trucks
* Zodiac Anti-gravity

Skateboard Bearing Brands

* FKD
* Popwar
* Lucky
* Reflex
* Bones
* Speed Demons
* Infinity

Skateboard Shoe Brands

* Adidas
* Adio
* Element
* Circa
* Dekline
* Lakai
* Fallen
* Volcom
* DC
* DVS
* Emerica
* éS
* RBK DGK
* Etnies
* Osiris
* Ipath
* Globe
* Nike
* Supra
* Fidel Shoes
* Vans
* Vox Footwear
* Zodiac Skatewear

European Brands

* Cliche Skateboards
* Clone Skateboards
* Blueprint Skateboards
* A Third Foot
* Popular Skateboards
* Death Skateboards
* Unabomber Skateboards
* Alai Skateboards
* The Harmony
* Killcity
* Jart Skateboards
* Propaganda Skateboards
* Daystar Skateboards
* Trauma Skateboards
* Fidelity Skateboards
* Dune Skateboards
* Hate-Club Skateboards
* Block-One Skateboard Griptape
* VOID Skateboard Trucks

The International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC) is a non-profit organization that was established in 1995. It’s “goals are to promote skateboarding, increase participation, save its members money, and educate”. Its members include skateboard manufacturers, distributors, skatepark designers and contest organisers.

The IASC created the annual Go Skateboarding Day. which encourages skateboarders around the world to go skateboarding, hold competitions, and generally promote skateboarding.

Its board of directors consists of Tod Swank, Bod Boyle, Jim Gray, Don Brown, Per Welinder, Steven Van Doren and Johnny Schillereff.

Anti-blank skateboard deck campaign

A few months before the establishment of the association, a meeting took place in Poway, California on January 29, 1994. It was attended by a small group of industry individuals, because of the fear, that a larger group could not discuss the topics seriously. One of the main factors discussed was the perceived problem of increasing blank skateboard decks sales.

In November 2006, the IASC held its annual meeting, where the association addressed the issue of blank skateboard decks and talked about it publicly for the first time. In the meeting, which was lead by Bod Boyle, the IASC members discussed the large sales of blank skateboard decks and how it affects the skateboard industry. They concluded that, in order for the industry to survive, they must convince skateboarders to buy branded products. Shop branded skateboard decks were also deemed harmful to the industry, both, because they divert the influx of money to skateboard companies which sponsor teams and organize tours and demos.

As a result, two large mail-order retailers have discontinued blank skateboard deck sales. In addition, a website called A World Without PROs has been started by some of IASC member companies, trying to persuade skaters to buy branded products.

The February issue of Transworld Business Magazine, came with a supplement from the IASC called Under Fire: A special report on the skate hard-goods market. Following the release of the publication, there was an another meeting in the ASR.

Response

In response to the A World Without PROs website, the A World Without CEOs was created, which displays contrasting views on the subject and also has an unofficial list of companies and skateboarders that support it. One of the skateboarders that support the website is Jim Gray, who is in the IASC board of directors.

The following are it’s main charges:

* Many members buy their skateboard decks from the same source as blank decks,

* The IASC asks skateboarders to support pros, but doesn’t care about American workers

* The fight against blanks is in reality a fight against profit margins and this ignores the negative affects that the IASC members have on small skateshops when they sell boards to chainstores that undercut the profits of skateshops

The only skateboard hard-goods company outside IASC that has publicly stated its opinion is Consolidated Skateboards. They released an advertisement through their Don’t Do it Army, that suggests that big skateboard hard-goods companies should stop selling their products to large shopping malls and chain stores, that are a big competition for the smaller ‘core’ skateshops.

In March 2007, Transworld Business posted an article that analyzed the their publication Under Fire and made suggestions on what to be done next, and the A World Without PROs website has been sized down to only one page that reads:

We at Blitz feel this site has assisted in creating what we feel is a healthy dialog on the future of skateboarding.
—Per Welinder, Blitz Distribution

A

* Abacus 5
* Active Mailorder
* Adio
* Airwalk
* Alien Workshop
* Almost Skateboards
* Altamont Apparel

B

* Baker Skateboards
* Billabong (clothing)
* Birdhouse Skateboards
* Black Box Distribution
* Black Label Skateboards
* Blind Skateboards
* Bootleg skateboards

C

* C1RCA
* California Free Former
* Chocolate Skateboards

D

* DC Shoes
* DGK skateboards
* Death Skateboards
* Deluxe Distribution

D cont.

* Dwindle Distribution

E

* ÉS Footwear
* Element Skateboards
* Emerica
* Enjoi
* Etnies

F

* Fallen Footwear
* Famous Stars and Straps
* Flip Skateboards
* Fourstar Clothing

G

* Girl Skateboard Company
* Globe Shoes

H

* Hurley International

I

* Independent Truck Company
* Ipath

K

* KR3W

L

* Lakai

M

* Matix

P

* Paint The Stars
* Plan B Skateboards
* Powell Peralta

Q

* Quiksilver

R

* Royal Trucks
* Rubicon Skateboards

S

* Santa Cruz Skateboards
* Sedition Skateboards Canada
* Sessions (clothing company)
* Skateboarding brands
* Stereo Sound Agency
* Surf Berkeley

T

* Tensor Trucks
* The Firm Skateboards
* Toy Machine
* Tum Yeto

U

* Unlimited Fix Skateboarding Company

V

* Vans
* Vision Street Wear
* Volcom
* Vox Footwear

W

* World Industries

Z

* Zero Skateboards
* Zoo York Skateboard Company

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