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Outdoor Pursuits: Skateboarding

The wind in your hair, the scabs on your knees -- skateboarding has a lot to offer! Learn more about it with one of these books.
Skateboarding is not a Crime Davis, James
Skateboarding is not a Crime: 50 Years of Street Culture
Skateboarding is a sport with its own philosophy and culture. These are explored in this book along with the sports' history and skateboarding technique instructions.
Skate Boarding Gifford, Clive
Skate Boarding
From board maintenance to ollies to vert skating and grinds, this book uses bite-sized instructions and killer original photography to introduce young readers to the action-packed world of skate boarding.
Ramp Tricks Goodfellow, Evan
Skateboarding: Ramp Tricks
Instructional guide to learning skateboarding tricks on ramps. Explores thirty-five tricks in sequential photographs with captions. Also discusses the history of ramp skateboarding and includes biographies of influential riders.
Street Skateboarding: Endless Grinds and Slides Goodfellow, Evan
Street Skateboarding: Endless Grinds and Slides
Taking place at real street locations, this photographic collage provides readers with the information necessary to take skateboarding abilities to a higher level of performance.
Skateboarding Tricks and Techniques Hocking, Justin
Skateboarding Tricks and Techniques
Learn how to do several beginners tricks and learn how to land these moves.
Skater Girl Segovia, Patty
Skater Girl: a Girl's Guide to Skateboarding
From lingo and board facts to fashion advice and "The Top 10 Reasons Why Skateboarding Rocks," this book gives girls the lowdown on all the need-to-know stuff.
Skate and Destroy Skate and Destroy: 25 Years of Thrasher Magazine
Marking the 25th anniversary of Thrasher magazine, this is a retrospective of skateboarding's twists and turns over that time period.
Tony Hawk and his Team Sorensen, Lita
Tony Hawk and His Team: Skateboarding Superstars
Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk is known as one of the greatest athletes of all time, but he hasn't done it alone. Readers follow Hawk through all the ups and downs that have come throughout his extensive career.
Concrete to Canvas Waterhouse, Jo
Concrete to Canvas: Skateboarder's Art
Profiles of 29 skateboarders who are also artists.
List created April, 2008.

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