Skateboarding Facts You Probably Didn't Know

Rainy days = Skateboarding info drops since I can't get out and skate. I did some research into some skateboarding lore and trivia and pulled out a few that I thought were pretty interesting. For those who are interested in the history of why and how skateboarding is what it is today, this one is for you! :)
Again, I probably messed up some information so if you have a correction, feel free to let me know in the comments!
As always, thank you for watching and I will see you next time! :)
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[@quedgeleyshredders7061]

Shame the military skateboard never took off. Think how much bloodshed could've been avoided by a good old game of S.K.A.T.E.

[@marleyjah4971]

S.k.a.t.e was gonna start world peace

[@foolishknightprod5957]

Nah alcada would have gotten salty and killed us 😂

[@kasper5688]

"alcada"

[@scoopadadoopimastealurpoop5832]

Im not gonna like this comment because its right at 100 likes

[@rileybateson9583]

Quedgeley Shredders do a kick flip and we’ll drop the charges

[@seaborn165]

CORRECTION: the first skatepark was my grandmas driveway.

[@babasanvictores5189]

Hahahahah

[@torylauver9827]

Same

[@wiiplayerin]

Ok Seaborn It was mine too

[@OK-fu5zc]

Same

[@elaineharris1726]

Same I live with her

[@FortniteNinjaFan-dr6uy]

Pretty sure that Marty mcFly invented the skateboard

[@choppersoloslol8407]

No he fuking died in his skateboard 😂😂😂

[@shinjipilled9187]

He's alive...

[@Masterlewger]

Yup that's true

[@VeryGemmy]

Williams

[@daniellarusso9897]

Someone Else hell yeah

[@luisalmeida3202]

"So technically skateboarding came from scooters." That killed me!

[@bagellord113]

haha! now skaters have to shut up about hating scooters!

[@Ivanvv69]

Same

[@DerkuiDerkui]

scooter brother

[@joshdeveaux6936]

Almasa Abu-Hanish you clearly watched the video

[@mahajonesy7283]

Luis Almeida ikr

[@ZephyIsHere]

Damn, If there was a school for skating, You would be the best teacher!

[@bbabaldurxdplaysfortniteno5358]

👽 true

[@Ivan_Idea]

He may be the best teacher, but I bet i'd still be considered "unteachable".

[@thebananaexpress494]

*coach frank*

[@Chris-it4fe]

@@thebananaexpress494 Coach Frank intensifies

[@scoopadadoopimastealurpoop5832]

Honestly that would actually be Aaron kyro, the principal of Braille Skateboarding high school, and hes the history teacher

[@bbabaldurxdplaysfortniteno5358]

Lol I’m from Norway. When my dad was a kid his dad (grandpa) went to Sweden to Buy him a board. He was the coolest kid in school

[@VM-zo7it]

I'm from Tennessee (a southern state in the USA) but now live in Norway and the skateboarding community in Norway is much larger than the the community in Tennessee which is something that I find quite strange

[@storm2814]

The skate scene in Sweden is not that big. Its growing though

[@bobedibob3084]

Eirik Gunnerud Andersen :)

[@bobedibob3084]

My dad got board right before it was illegal I think so he waited long or he got it right after idk

[@squishedpanda7466]

I’m also from Norway, my father had a friend who’s mother was from LA so he took boards with him every time... Even do it was illegal, if your dad loves skateboarding you do speaking out of experience.

[@rafaelmorales4534]

skateboarding is pretty cool, but you know what's even cooler? *learning*

[@phxnigtmare]

Learning allows you to skate

[@6ftvnderrr]

*K N O W L E D G E*

[@picklemytimbers5021]

did you watch the video too!? wooooow

[@Fanaz10]

Just combine learning and skateboarding, it's not that hard

[@ThuyLe-qo8jq]

Yeah boiiiii

[@jonahstrand1287]

I am from Norway, my father smuggled skateboards from England and he had to watch out for cops or else he could get arrested, yes arrested

[@jonlemierte9605]

Jonah Strand damn you dad is dope af my dad still at the store 😢

[@laZyTo0N7]

It said in the vid you would get a fine not arrested idiot😂😂

[@play4keeps77]

@@laZyTo0N7 no u can get arrested

[@Chris-uu9ce]

@@laZyTo0N7 stfu piece of shit

[@HelloThere-os3ev]

@@Chris-uu9ce u stfu,

[@lutherdixon5405]

Vans were a work shoe company. They were almost completely bankrupt before the marketed towards skaters

[@paperbagmask3409]

Didnt know nice

[@dfpguitar]

come to think of it many of the clothes that were popularised by skaters like dickies, carhartt etc were all utilitarian work clothing.

[@QuaZdk]

That’s not entirely true 😅 the style 44 (now known as Authentic) was meant as a deck shoe, but was adopted by skaters early on that then influenced Vans to create the style 46 or simply the Era. Vans was never a work shoe company. And they also wasn’t almost bankrupt before marketed towards skaters. They almost went bankrupt in the 80s long after marketed their shoes for skaters. It was because they expanded too quickly and couldn’t keep up sales and profits while keeping production on US soil.

[@Gimmiee]

Yoo I’m the 500th like can I get a sub

[@ethankotas8788]

QuaZ oh shit

[@AdnanCan]

VLSkate videos = my happy place

[@martin5144]

Adnan Can learn to and progressing videos = my happy place

[@martin5144]

Adnan Can learn to and progress videos = my happy place

[@prototype6368]

oof not gonna lie VLSKATE is kinda the best skate channel

[@wraeclastjanitor8849]

VL and NSI Skateboarding my goto for skate info

[@AdnanCan]

@@martin5144 🤜🤛

[@cookiejesus8412]

I ride goofy and I feel kind cool for it

[@orluh4397]

me too lol

[@AchillesBuena]

Another goofy foot right here

[@itchyeyeball420]

I ride regular because my dominant leg is the right leg so i push better with it

[@krisalexander6771]

@@itchyeyeball420 my dominant foot is also right, but i skate goofy-footed because I feel more stable standing on my right foot on the board when i push

[@itchyeyeball420]

@@krisalexander6771 when i try to ride goofy it just doesn't work out

[@happynessblaster2365]

Huh, ever since I saw the term Goofy used, my mind immediately went to Goofy from Disney.

[@janabroflovski2572]

it is from goofy by Disney, bc goofy rides likes the goofy style

[@happynessblaster2365]

Yeah, that’s why I thought it was interesting that my mind went to that.

[@redhatviewer]

Same here. When VL put "Goofy" footed on quotes, my mind immediately pictured Goofy in my head until VL shows it

[@MJadeMcGregor]

classical conditioning

[@thatoneperson7127]

Same

[@starry_birdie9893]

*me, skating* *sees pebble* “ah oh imma go die”

[@danielorourke2542]

Yep those pebbles can send you flying really quick.

[@707raider7]

Daniel O'Rourke yes....they can

[@Adequate4rtist2]

Ollie over it

[@PR3ZNCE]

Same

[@cat46368]

Starry_Birdie when you skateboard in a park and see a conker shell, oops, my head is bleeding

[@davidjohnson-gs9je]

I’m so disappointed that skateboarding used to be called “sidewalk surfing” and I never knew. That sounds AWESOME

[@crey3361]

I mean you surf but only on Asphalt

[@carguy2147]

I live in Norway My dad made his own skateboard during the prohobition

[@hobogrifter]

Proud to be your 69th like

[@derekarmstrong1408]

That zoom in on the freaked out cat cracked me up! As far as the helmet thing goes, Tony Hawk said once, "people don't wear helmets because they don't look cool, but how cool do you look with your brains falling out of your head?". I suck at skating and fall all the time, have bounced my helmet off the ground, coping, wall... a few times.

[@michaelaeschbacher4648]

Actually having your brains spilling out from your head sounds kinda cool. Would probably hurt though

[@mr.narwhal564]

5:34 that cat be like “ let me stare into your soul”

[@wanukasfobia6007]

"Learning is cool!" - VLSkate 2019

[@Swukelz]

0:47 **cough cough** Marty McFly

[@skatefastreadmarx5564]

Yo that's lit I live in Tucson , no wonder the skate scene in Tucson is so sick.

[@cryptidmilk9821]

Me too!

[@jahdielm3208]

SkateFastReadMarx Im blown away that the first skatepark was here in Tucson. Thats crazy

[@Alex-yd7uv]

Same

[@aidinstwin6136]

SAME when i heard that shit i flipped my shit

[@mythickey5160]

1:21 when your trucks are extremely loose

[@ShlevenSlyga]

0:22 that’s my dad he was inducted into the 2016 skateboarding hall of fame

[@rodd7058]

wait fr?

[@ShlevenSlyga]

@@rodd7058 Yeh

[@play4keeps77]

That's fucking dope my dad is 55 and I bought Him a board for Christmas and i taught him how to kick flip. Now he just cruises and don't do no tricks sadly

[@teamvoidz2321]

I’m late but damn is he gone?so he is a og feel lucky for ya

[@BigSmoke-xh5hi]

Lie

[@skylersg9244]

“You’ll never walk again” *thumbs up*

[@unk0wnuchiha874]

I actually like ridding goofy It’s more comfortable

[@noval6713]

Im goofy too its confortable

[@ross5631]

Same

[@emilyyeehaw400]

goofy is nice when a friend rides normal and yall ran ride next to eachother lol

[@vann07051970]

Emily yeehaw what?

[@Masterlewger]

Yup, I agree

[@Luke-mv1gj]

Great video as always VL, keep it up

[@eddiegodinez261]

I've always found skating so awesome and relaxing to watch now since the pandemic started I got my first board and I've been practicing lol

[@TeqHDcasper]

Most of the skateboarding injuries u see are twisted feet, and scratched skin, maybe some concussion. other than that, injuries are pretty rare. The only injuries I've had are exactly those two. I twisted my left foot, and gotten a lot of burns/scratches.

[@Aidan-nd2sb]

Yo I live in Tampa and I thought this city was lame and then you told me one of the most historical skate parks and I freaked

[@aryan1985]

What is da music. I want to listen to it while I skate.

[@timtom5883]

Me too ! I love it

[@PanosSG55]

sounds like some lofi tracks

[@xandulfbeats]

Read the Description

[@aryan1985]

Damn that’s a lot of likes. Thanks!

[@rileysanders5733]

Hip hop like post malone or machine gun kelly or whoever you want to

[@gravemankotg]

6:33 this is peak visual stimulition

[@sportsfreak4614]

VLskate I love u and ur vids so much they always make me happy and ur tutorials are the best on KZbin I learn so much from your vids keep up the great content🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@sascha_w]

I totally love the chill vibes in your videos!

[@ninaml8560]

Thank you for another great quality video! You inspired me to start skating(about a year a ago) so thank you for that! This truly is my favourite channel to exist on KZbin. Love from Europe 💜💛💚

[@ninaml8560]

@@bigbee4044 @nml_nct

[@charlesdement509]

Great video! Looking forward to future uploads!

[@freshmaker1211]

I love VL skate's music and also i like the facts you stated i didn't know any of that and now i learned something new keep up the good work :)

[@kimochi5246]

This is really good! Keep doing things like this! Thank you for doing so much for us.

[@fullmetalgrave]

I live in Tampa and used to skate the bro bowl

[@jeremyarevalo5665]

Skating will always hold a special place in my heart, good times.

[@feejbiejo9329]

I started watching your videos about "how to not look like a beginner" and "things beginners should be ready for" a few years ago when i just bought my board and i was so hyped :) now today i am able to do tre flips and dropping in on the vert ramp. Sir you are very motivating and to all beginners out here, dont be afraid of starting to skate! Also skaters with more experience will gladly help you with learning new thing either a ollie or a 360 dolphin flip :P. Thank you Vlskate for all those beautifull years and awesome memories

[@Narusasu98]

I love your humor and your videos full of information, very glad I found your channel. Keep up the good work!

[@clematis726]

Love the thps sound effect

[@mo1taz]

A really enjoyeble video. Some of the things is really Interesting.

[@vince8684]

This is my history homework ✨

[@arvfishing]

This was a great watch. Thank You!

[@ganondorf66]

I didnt know I needed those cat pictures

[@TyaxFilms]

“I guess you could technically say that skateboards came from scooters.” Every skater: *Imma pretend I didn’t see that*

[@Skiddyskates]

Love the way this video is edited. Great production being done at VLSkate

[@FreedomforAfricans]

You have the best damn skate videos on the internet. I love your presentation and your background music. I really dig your channel

[@kailanxo]

When he talked about the goofy stuff my right leg got uncomfortable

[@matschbirne5363]

I remember watching Hawaiian holidays when I visited my grandparents

[@sarahb8271]

Great vid! Thx for the pics of cats on skateboards. Oh, and I learned a lot too!

[@minifigmotion6426]

Yo Man just wanna say thanks for making all these vids they r greaaat and help loads as I'm basically a beginner skater so yh keep doin it 🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@piercedominguez1276]

I’m so lucky I live in the area of the first skate park

[@tommygolbranson6623]

What’s your intro song? I looked in the link in the description but couldn’t find it

[@michellelavelleOT343]

Thanks for this video! =) super rad!

[@gamersens2363]

Love your videos!

[@jk_magical8983]

lol its safe i stepped on my skate board for the first time when i got it, and i slipped and fell and broke my arm in 2 spots and my wrist also my ankle an i cracked my growth plate in my hip

[@dylanchiesa602]

JK_Magical well yeah. u just stepped on it without practicing balance or how to stand on it right.

[@yuvalkr9037]

#notificationsquad today I landed my first fs 180 thanks to your tutorial, much love from Israel, keep up the good work🤟🏼

[@MrLinker44]

I didn't know i needed this until i saw it. Thank you man!

[@Louie_ob]

Wow this video was quite unique to ur others do more like this Ps ur vids helped my skate career loads♥️

[@gabzeswone8049]

I Don't skateboard but still love you. Pluss I'm getting a skateboard that's $54

[@storm2814]

Pretty cheap board but it might work good

[@fuge511]

that's how much my bearings cost lol

[@el4194]

gabze swone my complete is 150

[@dicklessjohnson8029]

My complete is about 300$ lol

[@cheadlechamp8047]

gabze swone or just don’t skate we don’t need people with cheap boards

[@zeonmarques]

You are the best VL ❤️✌️

[@sinnerdegarah1952]

Not common in a facts vid is each fact cooler than the last, but this one is uncommon. Great job! Love the vid man, love it

[@isaacgold6539]

I had no idea about where the term goofy came from!! That's such an interesting story, nice video!

[@CRISPAPIpubgm99]

Osama bin ladens guards: what's that Navy seal seal: contact left *does a kickflip* kills enemy in a game of skate

[@NOTDEAD1664]

"Skateboarding facts i did not know." I already watched this video so that means that i know everything LOL😆

[@robertklowe]

that was a *great* video man :)

[@gtxsadgoofy5361]

This my favorite KZbin channel 👍🏽👍🏽

[@jw4277]

Skateboards are a dangerous weapon just roll them into someone’s shins and they die of their injuries

[@yeah4257]

Some one can’t get killed by hitting there shins of a skateboard 😏🙄

[@humanbeingfromearth]

Do they die to death?

[@roninjolin7687]

@@yeah4257 no but it's great for fight or flight; it helps

[@BlackoutMVs]

How do you not have more subs than PewDiePie now?

[@xxminoxx8554]

LikeABoss Gaming because pewdiepie is cool

[@vishikha.tripathi]

Ikr

[@hottea2933]

What about t series

[@andrebeatz15]

No Felix is KZbin daddy.

[@ROGUESPIRIT_]

lol fuck off

[@jebbush4102]

I love the chill vibe

[@PatBurnz]

good video brother, a lot of interesting stuff in this

[@Adrian-gm7pn]

Lol arizona might have had the first skate park but we barely got skate parks

[@tommyl6225]

first! to say "yum my tum i like vl skate don't give me hate"

[@mimted2614]

Hate

[@musse6464]

*gives hate*

[@fortniteisdead7593]

*GIVES HARDER HATE*

[@spicyboi860]

Take this hate

[@jenniferguzman8918]

im doing a project on the history of skateboarding for my graph and design class so this is very helpful thank you

[@misfitmixed2522]

Your channel deserves a lot more subs.

[@akuna2835]

Lol I saw my dads skateboard in the thumbnail

[@jazzy2393]

Cool..

[@NikkiKrissoff]

“ skateboarding is cool but you know what’s cooler LEARNING” Me: yeah sure

[@krukon4wheels926]

Awesome Video as always keep it up!Also, will we ever see another collab with @skateboard bruh ???

[@lexbeltran1354]

I've never heard of the "Randy" 720 skateboard shoes. Cool video man!👍👍👍

[@kp-uf7gq]

Did you say skateboarding is safer than hiking? I think the study didn't account for hikers dying from being lost which doesn't necessarily apply.

[@phxnigtmare]

It most definitely applies. Why would it not. It's a very real risk of hiking. People go off trail all the time. Bad things can happen. Especially in states like mine with cougars, coyotes, snakes, ect. Saying it doesn't apply is asinine

[@deviantsid18]

Theres about 200 frozen corpses ontop one of the largest mountains to this day so keep that in mind

[@abbybest8300]

hiking can be dangerous like encountering wild animals which is rare but still can happen and going off trail and not finding your way back and so skateboard has a very low change of injury because only the dumb people get injured really

[@Sinsanatis]

Potato Abby only dumb people get injured? A small slip up or complication on a simple trick can lead to injury. A lot of beginner skaters will fall on their asses. A simple unseen pebble can lead to a broken arm. I wouldnt go as far as to call those people dumb.

[@rileysanders5733]

@@abbybest8300 I'm not dumb but I get injured by doing insane stunts

[@mohammadfarhansalman8493]

How do I know if I ready to start training to olie

[@Luke-mv1gj]

Make sure you have very good board control and are super comfortable on your board

[@gamersens2363]

If you have to just do them stationary, what I did, and this isn’t for everyone, I put half of my board on the grass and the other half on concrete, so when I practiced my Ollie’s I still got the snap from the tail on concrete, then I gradually took my board off the grass, or if you aren’t confident with Ollie’s moving, you could always Ollie onto the grass

[@mohammadfarhansalman8493]

@@gamersens2363 thx :)

[@mohammadfarhansalman8493]

@@Luke-mv1gj thx :)

[@Maikagarrevoet]

I fking love skating mate and i love this chanel because it helps me a lot

[@reinoutmeijer6777]

ohmy ur channel got so big!

[@edenkazama6334]

Like your skateboards

[@hottea2933]

Actually it was Micheal J Fox who invent the skate board

[@thenorwaymaster8580]

No

[@moisesmoreno6233]

Yep back to the Future

[@thenorwaymaster8580]

@@moisesmoreno6233 he didn't make skateboards

[@moisesmoreno6233]

@@thenorwaymaster8580 have you seen the movie it's an inside joke not like for real

[@x3no841]

Lmao yesss. 😂

[@leeleesgaming4577]

Love this!!!

[@phillipdundon9827]

Yo I just wanted too say you inspired me to skate much love

[@waax3255]

At the start you should have said “you know what’s cooler? Knowledge.” Or it that meme way too old ahah

[@Jovajuice]

I wish somene teach me at personal 😫😫

[@5ut3en]

Somebody should teach you english personally.

[@csexplore4110]

Cool video! very interesting!

[@JimiBerkeley]

I'm a massive skate buff and avid skateboarder and there was lots I diddn't know so good job!

[@lexian2348]

Unpopular opinion I think Converse is better than Vans

[@jilliankrueger3954]

Sorok Tamás same

[@ashleegp8596]

Nuh uh

[@jackallevi6203]

Skateboarding is definitely dangerous AF, it’s just that most skaters are stubborn and let our injuries heal on their own. Only the serious bone breaks and concussions get reported but we are constantly hurting ourselves lmao

[@moonmanmigz]

Thanks for man amazing video

[@coolonow]

That's so crazy I didn't Tucson had the first skate park, sadly the skate scene died for a while but its starting to come back and with mortal skate shop helping out a crazy amount down here the city is starting to fix and build new parks around town!

[@AlexAlex-sj4bc]

Woww

[@iolandamorgado7717]

norway bans skateboards for being too dangerous for children but here in america we give them guns lmao💀

[@mz2373]

As a kid who's been around guns my entire life they aren't dangerous at all if you're responsible, however ignorance is

[@otoyoto7153]

No we don’t.

[@saltycelery2045]

Not really.

[@spacepirate9152]

I really enjoyed the cats on skateboard photos. : )

[@lebowski837]

You have the most chilled voice ever