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In 2021, the sport debuted at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.Įvan Semón While skateboarding was gaining more respectability as a sport, some skaters were going renegade. The reason I skateboard is because of the X Games and the video game.”
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“I am a product of the X Games and the Tony Hawk generation. “Skateboarding was very frowned upon in the mainstream culture,” Dixon says, adding that the X Games helped turn the narrative around.
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And in 1999, the release of the video game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater helped reach audiences that weren’t yet into skating. In the 1990s, competitions like the X Games brought even more attention to extreme sports. They were skateboarding out in the open, on anything they could find. “Skate parks just dwindled in popularity, here and in California," he continues, "mainly because the insurance rates were high and you just couldn't make enough money to pay it.”īut even as private skate parks fell out of favor, the sport was expanding globally, especially in Germany, and world-famous skaters like the legendary Tony Hawk were pushing the sport to higher levels. I skated there on the last day,” Linquist says. “The Concrete Curl closed on September 4, 1979. "I was hooked when I started doing that," he recalls. It cost $1.25 to enter, and Linquist, who grew up in Wheat Ridge, spent many days there. One of the first parks to pop up in metro Denver was the Concrete Curl in Aurora, which opened in 1977. Colorado is “middle America California,” explains 62-year-old Perry Linquist, an early skateboard fan. Dixon grew up in Aurora and runs Speakeasy Skate, an online directory of Colorado skate parks.įor a time, private skate parks were popular across the country, particularly in metro Denver, where skateboarding caught on quickly, just as snowboarding would a few years later. “The advancement of technology in skateboarding in the ’70s with polyurethane wheels and independent trucks where you could navigate freely and move more freely than before, that opened up doors,” says 36-year-old Damian Dixon. In the 1970s, skateboard manufacturers really got things moving with polyurethane wheels. Legend has it that surfers who wanted to surf on land when waves were low came up with the idea of putting wheels on boards.īy the 1960s, skateboarding had spread across the country as magazines devoted to the sport began popping up and technology advanced. The sport was born in California in the middle of the twentieth century. “I almost gave up,” admits Perry.Įvan Semón Skateboarding is a quintessentially American invention. The three thirteen-year-olds left Black's office devastated. “She was mainly concerned about taking away grass from the environment and putting in concrete,” remembers Sturno. “I said, ‘Well, there might be a better place, because with climate change and the heat island we are experiencing in Denver, we don’t want to get rid of vegetation,’” Black recalls. Bible Park, which is located just east of Interstate 25 and north of East Hampden Avenue.īut they got some tough news from the councilwoman. The boys pitched Black on their idea of establishing a skate park in James A.
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We want something that’s easy to bike or skate to,” says Price. “We don’t really have a convenient location for a skate park. The closest skate parks are in Greenwood Village and Littleton, and young skaters have to rely on getting rides to reach those. While there are city skate parks to the north - including the king of Denver’s skate park scene, the Denver Skatepark, on Little Raven Street - southeast Denver has none. The three had prepared their own PowerPoint presentation to show Black, who represents far southeast Denver, why this section of town needs a city-built skate park. Last June, Porter Sturno, Brek Price and Ryder Perry - seventh-graders who live in the Wellshire neighborhood - met with Denver City Councilwoman Kendra Black at her office next to Southmoor Park to talk about their favorite activity: skateboarding.
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