Compiling more legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details dozens of spectacular stunts—combining invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each feat is captured in action sequence and captioned allowing aspiring riders to learn how to perform them. A history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors, is also included. Blending background and how-to, this copiously illustrated reference explains amazing maneuvers that changed the sport and encourages a deep respect for the legends that made skateboarding the worldwide passion it is today.

Demonstrates famous skateboarding tricks performed by legendary riders such as Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, along with a brief history and step-by-step instructions for each trick.

Providing updated and revised chapters on safety, equipment, and basic skills, this instructional guide discusses the fundamentals of skateboarding. Presented in a helpful question and answer format, beginners will find information on buying a first board, where to plant one's feet, how to stay safe while learning new stunts, and the history of ...

Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty-four skateboarding tricks, including old school, spine, and new school stunts, and includes an interview with skateboarder and coach Steve Badillo.

Demonstrates famous skateboarding tricks performed by legendary riders such as Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, along with a brief history and step-by-step instructions for each trick.

When asked to define what makes a sport extreme, one practitioner—a rock climber in the countryside and a skateboarder in the city—replied, “It’s a sport where you may well hurt yourself, or worse.” Readers of this compelling book will learn all about these alternative, edgy sports and what it takes to parachute from an airplane, zip-line through the air, or brave the possibility of a flash flood by venturing into a canyon. Or, readers may simply be satisfied to read about the popular X Games, during which they can sit back and watch the pros take the risks.

Ever watched pro skaters and wished you knew how they were able to pull off the tricks that you see? If so, then MasteringSkateboarding is the resource for you! Two-time world champion skateboarder Per Welinder teams up with longtime skateboard advocate Peter Whitley to bring you the techniques and tricks used by the pros. But the information doesn’t stop there. Welinder and Whitley also provide in-depth coverage of skateboarding equipment, including how to select the components that work best for you and how to build and tune a board that fits your individual riding style. Packed with 88 tricks, this full-color guide is the only resource you’ll ever need to pull off the moves you’ve dreamed of performing. Whether you ride street or vert, competitive or recreational, Mastering Skateboarding has you covered. Add this one-of-a-kind resource to your collection and you’ll soon be ready to put your new skills on display!

Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

The Art of Prompts 2 has hundreds of examples and prompt tips to help you create beautiful illustrations, comics, greeting cards, stories, articles and so much more with generative AI! You don't need to be an expert: the book comes with easy-to-use tools to help you save, experiment and share your prompts with Livebook, and instantly publish your creations online with the visual Prompt Maker, Story Maker, Comics Maker, Image Maker and more! This book is a great resource for anyone interested in digital art, creativity, writing and artificial intelligence. Includes hundreds of illustrations and tips on making beautiful digital art with all modern AI models: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Midjourney and more. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts, try them yourself and have fun! Make beautiful art and content easily! Includes easy-to-use online tools and 200+ beautiful illustrations and tested prompts you can copy-and-paste to jump start creating artwork instantly, or experiment live with Livebook. Learn to instantly create professional digital art for your projects, books, documentation, research, or business: Illustrations Stories Comics Greeting Cards Articles What’s so special about this book? It explains how to make prompts to generate art and creative content - a very useful skill for any artist or hobbyist making art with powerful artificial intelligence tools. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts and have fun! Easy-to-follow and well structured The book is well structured, so you can quickly find your genres or styles of illustrations or artwork and use hints, guidance and copy-paste prompts that I tested while working on this book, or use Livebook (included) to create prompts, notebooks and more. Save time and start with best practices Creating a great artwork with artificial intelligence takes time. The book provides best practices and tested prompts to get started quickly. What is a prompt? A prompt is a loosely defined input, like a phrase or instruction that tells A.I. what to do. The art of creating prompts is just like the art of talking to people: if you’re skilled in this art you’ll get fantastic results! More creative AI resources: What’s new in this book: besides lots of new prompt tips, each prompt in this book is available online on Livebook, a new resource where you can keep and share your prompts, play, experiment, make articles, posts, illustrations, books, websites, and more. Livebook helps you creating content based on just your ideas (no special skills necessary), and provides a content management platform for generative AI, with lots of easy-to-use generative AI tools built-in: the visual Prompt Maker, Comics Maker, Greeting Card Maker, Story makers, and tons of templates as part of the Prompt Mania prompt garden. Ta-Da! Meet the Prompt Maker: one of the new tools included in Livebook simplifies prompt engineering, shortening the path from your ideas to content: the tool will automatically make awesome visual and text prompts for you, saving you typing and time from a single idea. Prompts made by Livebook Prompt Maker fit any transformer, and significantly improve the output quality for Google, OpenAI, Midjourney, and other models. Also in the book: multi-modal prompts - for video, images, text and more! While the first Art of Prompts book focused purely on imaging and art, I decided to include more tips in this book that also cover text and videos. So, in addition to vision and images, in this book you’ll find entirely new comics, text and conversation sections, including Google tools and new models like multi-modal Gemini, that explains the art of getting what you want from machines and artificial intelligence. This book is to make anyone productive with AI, you don’t need to be a data scientist to use methods and tools I share here. I recommend checking books in this series for the background of many methods explained here. Livebook for Business brings a comprehensive generative AI solution for businesses, teams and organizations. For example, at the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Livebook powers AI Coaching that teams and coaches as part of long-term Team USA readiness program for LA Olympics 2028! It is the first ever content management system (CMS) designed from the ground up to work with generative AI. Livebook generative AI kiosk had been installed at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, next to the first computers and processors, entertaining visitors with generative stories. Hope you enjoy this book, learn, and have fun!