
Skateboards: When Roller Skates Met Surfboards
Forever Ago
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Skateboard History
Every episode we invite one of our reporter friends to take us way back into history. And i thought chris green spawn would be the perfect person to help us explore skateboard history, because i skate too awsome. In essence, it's a flat object called a deck. Underneath the deck are trucks where the wheels are attached. Whence you have all that, you ride it using your feet. Where'd the first one come from? Well, it probably happened one day when a surfboard crawled out of the ocean looked around and said, this is nice. Then it grew wheels, just like the dinosaurs. Some people claim kids started making their own skate boards as early as 19
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