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I remember being and kid, and my brother being into skateboarding in a big way.  He was always the more athletic and adventurous of our brood, so it’s not surprising he took up the sport of skateboarding.  I always thought it was  a new sport when he started doing it, but turns out that’s not quite true.  My brother was skating in the mid seventies, which I guess kind of gives my age away.  What I didn’t realize, was that skateboarding was invented in the 1950s, peaked in the early sixties, and eventually died out around 1965.  Many considered it a trend whose time had passed, but they were wrong.

By the mid 1970′s new technology increased the quality of skateboards and their wheels and all of a sudden skateboarding was a cool thing again.  Just ask my brother.  By the late seventies though, skateboarding once again fell out of favor.  It was deemed by many to be too dangerous a sport for kids to be playing.  Obviously, skateboarding regained in popularity during the eighties, and continues to be popular today.  That’s not to say there has been a steady increase in skateboarding since then, as it has continued to go through a number of rolller coaster type rides since.  But the highs have been pretty good, and the lows haven’t been as bad as they used to be.  Complete skateboards is just one of the many places that continue to benefit from this very popular sport.

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