The Skateboard Life

"Skateboarding is more popular than ever. In the last five years, and especially, since the twenty twenty Olympics, where skateboarding debuted as an official sport, skateboarding has gone mainstream, and it will keep getting bigger and bigger. The sport was put on the map in the late seventies when legendary skater Rodney Mullen created one of the most famous skateboarding tricks, the ground Ollie, and became popularized in the early eighties when Thrasher magazine, with its counterculture vibe, was established, and, then, in nineteen eighty two, a little known skater named Tony Hawk came onto the scene at just fourteen years old, changing the face of the sport forever. Since then, skateboarding has gained traction, but was always portrayed from a one dimensional perspective, when in reality, the sport and the stories of prominent skaters are extremely diverse. Enter The Skateboard Life. Through sixty five dynamic profiles of skaters a