Language of the streets - the dawn of skateboarding 2 "The kinetic mechanism of surfing"

When a surfer rides a skateboard, he has an image of the waves in his mind, and he wanted his skateboard to have the feeling of surfing, and that was reflected in his body language. The foundation of skateboarding for a surfer was surfing.

The freestylers stayed in one place and skated with the pylons lined up and sewn between them. As a beginner, I was too busy riding and didn't have the luxury of controlling the deck to my heart's content, so I skated wherever I felt like it.

Only the surfer found a sense of surfing and a kinetic mechanism common to skateboarding, controlling the deck to superimpose the waves on the road and the city in a fluid fashion. In surfing, you have to paddle again when you get to the edge of the wave and go out to sea, but with skateboarding, there is no such partition.

Surfers on skateboards glided fluidly, as if a single wave would last forever.

Instead of taking a big surfboard and going to the beach to change it, you can take your skateboard to the deck (a skateboard board. Skaters often refer to a skateboard as a "deck/board.") If you have one, you can glide anywhere, and you can feel the feeling of riding a wave easily. I could take my skateboard with me wherever I wanted to go because I could just throw it at the foot of my car seat when I carried it.

The location can be anywhere as long as the road conditions are secure. The skiing range is the same as the area in which you live, and there are no restrictions on where you can go without getting into the ocean, as in surfing. Skateboarding was a close relationship between the living area and the city.

At the time of skateboarding's birth, there was plenty of potential to skate on anything but flats. For example, you've probably had to go down the curb steps when exiting the sidewalk into the driveway. I suppose if I paid attention and paid attention to going down the steps, I could have thought about going down a couple of steps that were a little higher next time.

One of the places where skateboarding developed was not a step, but a bank with a gentle slope. Either he found the bank by accident and slipped on it, and realized that it was more similar to the feel of the wave than when he slipped on the flat, or when he saw the bank, he realized that the shape was similar to the wave and became interested in it. I'm not sure about that, but I'm sure most surfers felt more like surfing on the banks than on the flats.

It wasn't until the late 1980's that the city began to use and develop stairs, benches, and any other slippery forms that existed in the city, but such a style was constructed as a result of accumulating experience and development one by one. The skaters (surfers) of this era still only paid attention to the "terrain" of the bank.

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Why did surfers of this era pay attention to the terrain and choose to bank as a result? Why didn't he choose to move down the steps like today's skaters? Skateboarding and surfing are both vehicles that require a sideways gliding motion on a long, narrow board. They demand similar behavior, but some parts of that demand are the same and some parts are different. The different part is the straightness of the board due to its length.

If skateboards were as long as surfboards and more straightforward than maneuverable, it would have been difficult to control the deck freely and would not have developed. The propulsion is the slope of the wave in the case of surfing, while skateboarding is a push ("rowing" with your feet). Both surfing and skateboarding are controlled by the load from the toes to the heel of the foot on the board (in other words, it bends by weight transfer), but the control feeling is the same.

Being able to control the two in the same way is more important than anything else, and because of this connection, surfers on skateboards began to see the streets as the sea.

Surfers are sensitive to the sensations in the soles of their feet. In order to control the surfboard in the ever-changing and unstable waves, you have to respond to the wave movements transmitted through the surfboard. That feeling came into play when I rode my skateboard, which allowed me to react sensitively to vibrations from the ground and changes in the terrain and notice even small differences.

The perception given by the changes in the swaying waves when riding a surfboard - the image reaffirmed the resemblance of the waves from the differences in terrain when riding a skateboard, which is the current perception, and the identification of surfing and skateboarding responses along with control through weight transfer.

The surfer turned his attention to the terrain, which is the source of the perception he gets from the soles of his feet. He wanted a place in the city where people could feel the "waves" on a skateboard that could be controlled in the same way as a surfboard.

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