Skateboarding is a sport invented in California which consists of sliding on the groundand obstacles balancing on a plank, called shape, equipped with four small wheels andtwo axles called "trucks". With the skate perform maneuvers with low to high degrees of difficulty. In Brazil, the practitioner is called skate skater, while in Portugal called skater.Skateboarding is considered an extreme sport, given its creative aspect, whoseproficiency is verified by the degree of difficulty of the movements performed.
The skateboards were very primitive, did not have nose or tail, it was just a board withfour wheels. The growth of "surfing on asphalt" was done in a way such that many of theyoung season surrendered to the new sport called skateboarding. Then came the firstskaters of the time.