reflection

this whole blogging project has been very very fun. i think it is a good experience for kids to learn how to use the internet. for example blogspot.comis diverse and confusing at first but it helps you learn the ways you can use the internet. i think blogger or blogspot is a good place for doing blogs they have great layouts and options for making you blog look cool. this way other people can hear what you have to say at there own will because they want to see it not because they have to. and i like being able to blog about whatever you want not a set topic this way it is more interesting and the person is more qualified in typing. i like blogging about skateboarding because it is very interesting to me and it is kinda important to me because it is very fun and i try hard even though im not that good and ive only been skateboarding for a couple of months. i think that it is very important to blog or work on the computer when doing homework because kids are more interested in computers and will more likely focus on the work other than television or video games. to summorize my blogs the first one was about was about shoes this summorized that you need to wear good shoes to have a succesfull carreer of skate boarding or to just to have fun. the next blog was was about bearings. this basicly explained that bearings are all different and you should know about them because they can do different things and if you are a beginner then you wouldnt know wich bearings to choose from. the next blog was about griptape that is the sanpaper like tape on the top of your board that helps your feet grip onto the board. then i did a very important blog about trucks. it is important because trucks are what you need to move. after that i did a post on the history of skateboarding. this started in the 1950s with people who wanted to skateboard when there where no waves. then i did a post about rob dyrdek who is a skateboarder/t.v. star. then i did a blog about bam margera and the element team. this explained that there are different

bam margera and the element crew

Bam margera is a skateboarder in the element company team. they are famous for making skateboards, clothing products like shirts and hats and they also make shoes. they are a very succesfull company int he world of skateboarding. along with bam margera there are many others in the element crew some of them are Bucky lasek, Chad Muska, Chad Tim Tim, Mike Valley and many others. Bam margera is important because he is widely known for his roles in many movies such as 'the fantasy factory' "nitro circus" and even his own show "viva la bam" all these shows are very interesting. Bam was born on speptember 28, 1979.in West Chester, Pennsylvania to Phil and April Margera. He is also the younger brother of Jess Margera and nephew of Vincent Margera. His grandfather nicknamed him "Bam" at the age of three after his habit of running into walls. He attended East High School and cites friend Chris Raab as his only reason for attending high school, and dropped out after Raab got expelled. He later received his GED at the insistence of his parents. now there is no I in team so lets talk about the element team. the element team started in 1992. it was started by johnny schilleref. he just wanted a team that would be the best they could be. and he got that with all the great members of the element team. to rap it all up the element team is one of alot of peoples favorite team including me. thay are very good skateboarders and are a great team. now i will post some clips of the element team.
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rob dyrdek

Dyrdek first starred in a MTV reality series, entitled Rob & Big (aired November 2006 to April 2008), with his best friend and bodyguard Christopher "Big Black" Boykin as well as his cousin, Chris "Drama" Pfaff. After three seasons, Boykin's long time girlfriend had a baby and caused him to leave the show. In February 2009 Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, featuring Dyrdek, Pfaff, and his Dyrdek Enterprise staff, was first aired. The "Fantasy Factory" is a converted warehouse where Dyrdek runs his many entrepreneurial ventures. It also features a large indoor skate plaza, Rob's personal office with "bat cave" parking garage, a foam pit, and numerous basketball hoops in various places around the inside of the factory. He also built a "hands of God" music studio for his cousin "Drama" Pfaff inside the factory. During the course of the first season, he also opened his first SafeSpot SkateSpot with the sponsorship of Carl's Jr. During the grand-opening, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa rode with Dyrdek on the world's largest skateboard. Dyrdek was also featured in the video games skate. and Skate 2, along with "Big Black". During the days of Rob & Big, they featured an episode of Rob and Big Black actually going to the EA building to shoot for the game. In Skate 2, the player is able to purchase an early version of the Fantasy Factory on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store as an add-on, allowing the player to skate within the factory premises. He made a movie Entitled "Street Dreams" in 2009. also he has many cool things like the t-rex car it has 3 wheels (ha ha). he turned pro at 16 in 1991. and he set many records in his life time. some of these records are...
Consecutive front-side ollies: 46 (2007, WR)
Ollie big spins: 12 (2007, WR)
Consecutive nollie kickflips: 73 (2007, WR)
360-degree kickflips in one minute: 12 (2007, WR)
Heel flips in one minute: 15 (2007, WR)
Consecutive ollies: 215 (2007)
Nollie kickflips in one minute: 22 (2007, WR)
Longest stationary manual: 49 seconds (2007, WR)
Switch frontside kickflips in one minute: 9 (2007, WR)
Longest 50-50 rail grind: 100 feet (2007, WR)
Longest board slide: 100 feet (2007, WR)
Highest skateboard ramp jump into water: 10 feet 8 inches (2007, WR
as you can see he is a very talented person. he is still living and creating episodes for his show "the fantasy factory" where he does stunts and fun things with his friends the show is on mtv or mtv2 if you have cable i dont know if it matters what you have (cable,dish,etc)
here are some links related to rob dyrdek. thank you for reading this post.


http://fantasyfactory.ning.com/
http://www.dyrdek.com/

history

1940's-1960's ---Skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board, rather, it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time. These first skateboarders started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. The boxes turned into planks, and eventually companies were producing decks of pressed layers of wood -- similar to the skateboard decks of today. During this time, skateboarding was seen as something to do for fun besides surfing, and was therefore often referred to as "Sidewalk Surfing". The first manufactured skateboards were ordered by a Los Angeles, California surf shop, meant to be used by surfers in their downtime. The shop owner, Bill Richard, made a deal with the Chicago Roller Skate Company to produce sets of skate wheels, which they attached to square wooden boards. Accordingly, skateboarding was originally denoted "sidewalk surfing" and early skaters emulated surfing style and maneuvers. Crate scooters preceded skateboards, and were borne of a similar concept, with the exception of having a wooden crate attached to the nose (front of the board), which formed rudimentary handlebars.A number of surfing manufacturers such as Makaha started building skateboards that resembled small surfboards, and assembling teams to promote their products. The popularity of skateboarding at this time spawned a national magazine, Skateboarder Magazine, and the 1965 international championships were broadcast on national television. The growth of the sport during this period can also be seen in sales figures for Makaha, which quoted $10 million worth of board sales between 1963 and 1965 (Weyland, 2002:28). Yet by 1966 the sales had dropped significantly (ibid) and Skateboarder Magazine had stopped publication. The popularity of skateboarding dropped and remained low until the early 1970s.The 1970s
In the early 1970s, Frank Nasworthy started to develop a skateboard wheel made of polyurethane, calling his company Cadillac Wheels.[4] The improvement in traction and performance was so immense that from the wheel's release in 1972 the popularity of skateboarding started to rise rapidly again, causing companies to invest more in product development. Nasworthy commissioned artist Jim Evans to do a series of paintings promoting Cadillac Wheels, they were featured as ads and posters in the resurrected Skateborder magazine, and proved immensely popular in promoting the new style of skateboarding. Many companies started to manufacture trucks (axles) especially designed for skateboarding, reached in 1976 by Tracker Trucks. As the equipment became more maneuverable, the decks started to get wider, reaching widths of 10 inches (250 mm) and over, thus giving the skateboarder even more control. Banana board is a term used to describe skateboards made of polypropylene that were skinny, flexible, with ribs on the underside for structural support and very popular during the mid-1970s. They were available in myriad colors, bright yellow probably being the most memorable, hence the name. Manufacturers started to experiment with more exotic composites and metals, like fiberglass and aluminium, but the common skateboards were made of maple plywood. The skateboarders took advantage of the improved handling of their skateboards and started inventing new tricks. Skateboarders, most notably Ty Page, Bruce Logan, Bobby Piercy, Kevin Reed, and the Z-Boys (so-called because of their local Zephyr surf shop) started to skate the vertical walls of swimming pools that were left empty in the 1976 California drought. This started the vert trend in skateboarding. With increased control, vert skaters could skate faster and perform more dangerous tricks, such as slash grinds and frontside/backside airs. This caused liability concerns and increased insurance costs to skatepark owners, and the development (first by Norcon,then more successfully by Rector) of improved knee pads that had a hard sliding cap and strong strapping proved to be too-little-too-late. During this era, the "freestyle" movement in skateboarding began to splinter off and develop into a much more specialized discipline, characterized by the development of a wide assortment of flat-ground tricks. now skateboarding just kept evolving until skateboarders made the tricks we have today and the styles we have today.