Skateboarding is 60
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Sixty years ago, a man wandered into a surf shop on the beach in Southern California with a homemade wooden board with four roller-skate wheels attached. An insignificant beginning for a culture that would eventually influence communities all around the world.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know when you go a skateboarding it makes you so happy you forget about your problems |
| 0:10.0 | you go whenever you want without anyone without any permission it's so cool it makes |
| 0:18.3 | you try and try hard harder and harder it has one language that everyone in the world can speak to. |
| 0:27.0 | Skateboarding is it's 60. |
| 0:32.0 | And how a culture changed the world. It's 60. 60. |
| 0:33.0 | And how a culture changed the world. |
| 0:36.8 | The academic. |
| 0:38.8 | The first thing to say is thank you all for attending. |
| 0:41.4 | It's October 2017, the University of Southern California |
| 0:45.8 | campus, LA. |
| 0:47.3 | My name is Neftale Williams. I am a lecturer at University of Southern California. |
| 0:53.0 | I focus on skateboarding culture. |
| 0:55.0 | We're in a kind of lecture theatre, experts with microphones, |
| 1:00.0 | audience taking notes. |
| 1:01.0 | So our panelists were Johnny Schillerin, |
| 1:03.7 | and CEO of a skateboard company called Rodney Mullen, |
| 1:07.4 | the Mad professor of all skateboarding culture, |
| 1:13.6 | Renata Simmerl, Vanessa Torres, who is X Games gold medalist. |
| 1:18.4 | There was something about it. |
| 1:19.5 | I mean, you could share it. |
| 1:20.9 | The Kenny centers, the cultural hub of the United States. |
| 1:24.0 | And then Chris Pastress is founding a skateboarding company |
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