Skater Cielo
Title | Skater Cielo PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Katstaller |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2022-08-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1338867911 |
Meet Cielo, a fierce skater who finds that facing your fear of failing gives you the courage to persevere! Cielo loves to skateboard! But when she messes up on a new ramp she's embarrassed and afraid to fall again in front of so many people. With the help of some new friends, Cielo summons the courage to try again (and again, and again), and learns that falling is not failing--true fierceness isn't about landing the perfect trick, it's about picking yourself back up when you don't.
The Most Fun Thing
Title | The Most Fun Thing PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle Beachy |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 153875410X |
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • Southwest Review • Electric Literature Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old. In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike’s corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime—often overlooked, regularly maligned—whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy—and what it continues to teach him as he strugglesto find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.
The Mutt
Title | The Mutt PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Mullen |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2004-07-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0060556188 |
At age six, Rodney Mullen was the family misfit who had to wear braces to straighten out his pigeon-toed feet. But by age fourteen, he was a world-champion skateboarder -- and for the next decade lost only one contest. Now, for the first time, Rodney tells the incredible story of his ascent to fame as the number one nerd in a sport where anarchy is often encouraged. Rodney learned to skate by himself on the family farm, his only company the wandering cows. As a teenager he traveled the world for demonstrations, invented the flatground ollie -- a trick that laid the foundation for modern street skating -- and in ten years garnered thirty-five world skating titles. While acing skateboard contests Rodney also earned straight A's in school, but his father forced him to abandon his fame and the fortune he could make from the sport he loved. Rodney was unable to stop for very long though, even after freestyle skating went out of fashion and the skateboarding world abandoned him. He adapted to street skating and eventually became one of the most innovative and influential skaters of all time. It's all here: everything from his eating and sleeping disorders to his comical experiences with loan sharks, occult-obsessed relatives, and the FBI. The Mutt is a look at Rodney's strange journey from penniless skateboarder to millionaire.
Life Is Better On, My Skateboard, Skateboarding Notebook
Title | Life Is Better On, My Skateboard, Skateboarding Notebook PDF eBook |
Author | Skateboard Note |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2020-07-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
120 pages (60 sheets) College Ruled 7.5 in x 9.25 in (19.05 x 23.5 cm) Soft, matte cover Perfect book for class notes, lists, a journal, or a diary This fun composition book is COLLEGE RULED (standard line paper); which is usually requested in schools starting in middle school and throughout junior and high school (and college too!).
Silver. Skate. Seventies.
Title | Silver. Skate. Seventies. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Chronicle Chroma |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-10-22 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781452182056 |
In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that inspired the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders evoke the sometimes reckless but always exhilarating origins of skateboarding lifestyle and culture.
Nyjah Huston
Title | Nyjah Huston PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Chandler |
Publisher | Capstone Press |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1977154689 |
A unique childhood gave Nyjah Huston a unique outlook. Growing up in California and Puerto Rico, Huston started skateboarding when he was just four years old. By age 11, he was competing in the X Games and shocking the skateboarding world with his wild boardslides. Learn how the small kid with the big dreadlocks grew into the highest-paid skateboarder in the world.
FDR Skatepark
Title | FDR Skatepark PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Orso |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780764341106 |
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