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A skateboarding mindset – being prepared to learn difficult tricks in unfamiliar settings – helps students master other kinds of skill.
It is as if the skateboard is an extended sensory appendage, to feel and hear the world at large.
Girls’ interests are too often trivialised or dismissed … but passionate, driven girls are making an impact – from Greta Thunberg to 14-year-old skateboarding gold medallist Arisa Trew.
Because it is still assumed that young women with skateboards are ‘posers’ rather than skaters, they have to perform in order to prove themselves.
Action sports used to be a niche interest but are continuing to gain in popularity - why are more young people gravitating towards them?
Sports keep evolving – and so must the Olympic Games. But can the inclusion of new events like breakdancing and kiteboarding also create a new generation of fans?
Skateparks show how the built environment can be transformed if communities, and the DIY cultures they give birth to, are allowed to flourish.
Of the first purpose-built skateparks, from the 1970s boom years of the sport’s second wave, very few remain. Preserving them is about more than sporting history.
The desire to transfer the thrills of surfing on to dry land created the monumental culture of skateboarding, now vividly documented in a new exhibition.
The ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ are embracing different forms of spirituality – skateboarding may be one of them.
As the Winter Olympics are showing, the unique cultures of action sports seem to support long careers among the top athletes – something other sports and society in general could learn from.
From skateboarding and climbing to baseball, the new Olympic events had varying degrees of success.
Although it’s now an Olympic sport, at its core skateboarding is still a counter-cultural activity that represents creativity, community and personal expression.
Skateboarding will make its Olympic debut in Tokyo but research shows female athletes are likely to cop abuse online when the competition starts.
The inclusion of new action sports can offend Olympic traditionalists and outsiders alike. But it’s part of a long-term strategy to keep the games relevant and appealing to younger fans.
It was once seen as a public menace – now, skateboarding is a global sport that empowers young people to improve their cities.
Skateboarding is no longer just for punkish, subcultural rebels – it’s everywhere, for everyone.
Even as our world goes digital, there will always be an appetite for craftsmanship, for art and for the work only human hands can truly bring to life. Art and design schools should celebrate creators.
The first worldwide skateboarding conference, Pushing Boarders, showed how skateboarding is evolving to include people of all genders, ethnicities and sexualities.
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture, UCL
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Professor, School of Psychological and Social Sciences, University of Waikato
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior lecturer in Sociology, University of Exeter
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Retired Professor, Furniture Design and Construction, OCAD University
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Fellow, Saint Mary’s University
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Professor of Childhood, Youth and Family Life, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Principal Research Fellow in Archeology, UCL
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Lecturer | Pūkenga in Sports Management and Marketing, University of Canterbury
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Community Development Officer (Skateboard GB) and Visiting Research Fellow, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University