Skateboarding Tips : Who Invented the Skateboard?

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Uploaded by on Dec 18, 2008

Thomas Welch put the first patent on the skateboard, although many people used skateboards before it was patented. Find out information about the history of skateboarding with help from a professional skateboarder in this free video on skateboarding.

Expert: Simon Bingham
Contact: www.nocomplyatx.com/
Bio: Simon Bingham is the co-owner of No Comply Skate Shop in Austin, Texas. Bingham has more than 20 years of professional skateboarding experience.
Filmmaker: Todd Green

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  • WHAT?!? I thought McFly invented it in the 50's when he went back in time with that crazy Doc and the totally rad Delorean!

  • what if like a caveman ..... nvm

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  • What so it wasn't animal chin damn I'm an idiot

  • @thetravelinghermit Hahaha back to the future XD

  • and then rodney mullen created the shape of the board that we skate today

  • @Drive2kill he also said that the surfurs and thoughs ghetto kids made the skateboards too

  • @09falcon09 i can hes talking stateboard

  • @lordplaya8 you really need to learn grammar. I can't understand crap in your comment.

  • @thetravelinghermit thats what i thought too!

  • whoa!!! now i know where my skate roots came from but i think the z-boys deserve all the credit and christian hosio the z-boys made vert skateing and pool skateing and christian hosio and a couple of his friends but mianly him made street but the z-boys made it all possible long live the z-boys no vals no valley kooks locals only SK8 4 LIFE AND DIE POSERS DIE!!!!!! =)

  • skate boarding was a west coast thing surfers wanted to test out there surfing skills when no good waves were around and somehow skate boarding just spread to the east coast

  • lol this guy comes with the most random vids

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