Want to learn how you or your loved one can compete for the X Games or even the Olympics? One thing that nearly all X Games and Olympic athletes have in common is they received skate lessons early in their career which they used to win skateboarding competitions. Need help understanding skateboarding terminology? We’ve curated the largest glossary for skateboarding terminology to get you skating in the right direction. A brief History of X Games Skateboarding.So without further ado, in this article we’ll be going over: We’re going to give you as many facts as possible on X Games skateboarding – everything from the trivial data based facts, to surprising humanizing facts you definitely have never heard before. So if you ever wondered how the X Games came to be? Or who were some of the first skateboarders involved? Or maybe how much the X Games has changed when it comes to today’s contest format? This is the article for you. While along the journey, amazing things have happened not just for the X Games but the sport of skateboarding.Īt GOSKATE, we celebrate and explore skateboarding’s history, and we would be remiss to not tell the story of the X-Games and reveal some of its most interesting facts. However, over the years what a youngster or curious adult might see when tuning into the X Games on ESPN has changed.

Seeing the California skate park ramps and half pipes on T.V., with pro skaters adorned with stickers and the best skateboards, the X Games painted and still paints a clear picture of what professional skateboarding looks like to millions of young people across the world. Who doesn’t associate X Games and skateboarding with the iconic 900 landed by Tony Hawk at the 1999 Summer X Games ? (Which as you will learn in this article, was landed after the official buzzer). Now, in this day and age, X-Games has become a household name synonymous with skateboarding and everything gnarly. We turned on the television and saw something that spoke to us and made us curious about skateboarding. For many of our GOSKATE students and instructors, the X Games was the first door that opened us to the larger world of skateboarding and action sports.

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