Jonathon Russell Clark - Skateboard

<p>How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport?<br><br>Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark<em> </em>answers this question by going straight to the sources.<br><br>From California beaches to Tokyo 2020, the skateboard has outlasted its critics to form a global community of creativity, camaraderie, and unceasing progression.<br><br>Skateboarders are their own historians, which means the real history of skating exists not in archives or texts but in a hodgepodge of random and iconic videos, tattered photographs, and, mostly, in the blurry memories of the people who lived through it all. </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>