Skate the World
Title | Skate the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Mehring |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1426213964 |
"Hit the streets with 200 exhilarating photographs of the worlds greatest professional skateboarders in action. In this dynamic collection, award-winning photographer Jonathan Mehring takes us from New York to Hong Kong to Istanbul and beyond as he sets out to capture the heart and soul of skate culture on six continents. Featuring stars like Tony Hawk, Nyjah Huston, and Eric Koston, Mehrings images have been published in top skateboarding magazines, and ESPN named him one of the sports ten most influential people. Now, in his first book, Mehring invites us along on his exhilarating photo adventures across six continents. By capturing these experiences on camera and including complementary images contributed by other top skate photographers, Mehring presents an exciting and artful look at skate culture around the world. With an adrenaline rush on every page, this book celebrates the joy of skateboarding and its power to inspire young people to overcome obstacleson the board and off."--Amazon.com.
Skate for Your Life
Title | Skate for Your Life PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Baker |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0593223470 |
Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. "Wow! Leo's vulnerability and authenticity allowed me to experience his pain and triumph. A great testament to the positive power of skateboarding and the dangers of gender." --Elissa Steamer (skateboarding pioneer) "In Skate for Your Life, Leo Baker invites us on the intimate journey toward self-realization. Leo's deep passion for skateboarding is beautifully communicated while bringing to light the difficult reality of breaking the mold on a public stage. This book synthesizes what so many LGBTQIA people can relate to--the lifelong journey of seeking out spaces where we fit in, and when we don't find them, making new ones." --JD Samson (musician, producer, and songwriter) In this moving, personal story, professional skateboarder Leo Baker shares their journey within the sport and the importance of authenticity and allyship as a non-binary athlete. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. "Your authenticity is your superpower." That's the motto that professional skateboarder Leo Baker lives by and champions. But like any hero's journey, learning about their power didn't come easy. In this installment of the Pocket Change Collective, Baker takes the reader on a complicated, powerful journey through the world of skate and competitive sport as a non-binary athlete.
Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating
Title | Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Brennan |
Publisher | Japanime Co. Ltd. |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2022-02-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 4910659102 |
Figure skating is the most beautiful and mysterious of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is visible for the world to see. In Inside Edge, Christine Brennan chronicles—for the first time—a season on the skating circuit, intimately portraying the lives, on and off the ice, of the sport's current and upcoming stars. Woven into the narrative are stories of figure skating luminaries—including Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo, and Tara Lipinski. Revealing the backstage conflicts high-profile figure skaters face, and the ambition that drives them, Brennan also tells the stories of their families, of improbable rises to the top, and of wasted talents. If skaters are perfect, they can become international heroes. But if they fall, if they miss a three-revolution jump on a quarter-inch blade of steel, the despair is theirs alone. This is their life on the edge, where decades of training culminate in little more than four crucial minutes on the ice. There is no other sport like it. There is no other story like theirs.
Inside the World of Board Graphics
Title | Inside the World of Board Graphics PDF eBook |
Author | Robynne Raye |
Publisher | Rockport Publishers |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1610581458 |
Inside the World of Board Graphics takes an in-depth, comprehensive look at the global nature and cultural influence of Surf/Skate/Snow board art and design. International design luminaries Art Chantry, Katrin Olina and James Victore are placed along side industry super stars Terry Fitzgerald, Martin Worthington, Yoshihiko Kushimoto and Rich Harbour (who has been shaping and designing surfboards since 1959). The book includes dozens of interviews and profiles from the people currently creating board art and design: Aaron Draplin, Emil Kozak, Morning Breath, Anthony Yankovic, Haroshi and Hannah Stouffer to name a few. There are many books about the art of board design, but there has never been a book like this that takes a rare look behind the scenes of the creative process. Countries represented: Iceland, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Russia, Poland, UK, Mexico, Venezuela, Romania, South Africa, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Croatia and the USA, among others.
Skateboarding and the City
Title | Skateboarding and the City PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Borden |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2019-02-21 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1472583477 |
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.
The Best Figure Skater in the Whole Wide World
Title | The Best Figure Skater in the Whole Wide World PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Bailey |
Publisher | Kids Can Press Ltd |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2003-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781550748819 |
A young athlete overcomes setbacks and finds her own way to shine.
Skate Freak
Title | Skate Freak PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Choyce |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2008-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1554690420 |
Quinn Dorfman's struggling at school and watching his family deteriorate and, since moving to a new town, has trouble enjoying his passion, skateboarding.