Selects: How Skateboarding Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Skateboarding started out as something bored surfers did when the waves weren't breaking, but after a few improvements to the design, it took off like a rocket to become its own cultural phenomenon. Come gleam the cube with Josh and Chuck as you ollie over this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	All right folks, this is Chuck.
0:32.5	It is in selects time March 11th, 2014.
0:36.8	That's what we're throwing back to today because I picked out how skateboarding works.
0:41.4	Boy, this is a great one.
0:42.6	This is sort of vintage stuff you should know.
0:45.6	All about skateboarding, full of stories about our own skateboarding adventures as young
0:50.5	posters that we both were.
0:53.5	It's good stuff.
0:54.5	We talk about the history.
0:55.5	We talk all about, and of course it's about a thing that some people are experts in,
0:59.1	so we get a lot wrong.
1:00.7	But we get it mostly right.
1:01.7	It was a good episode.
1:03.1	Please do enjoy how skateboard work right now.
1:09.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
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