Skateboarding was first invented around the 1940s, 1950s, although it is a fun thing to do. There are a lot of tricks to do while riding on your skateboard theirs ollie, kickflip, heelflip, varial flip, the flip, pop shuv, Manuel, etc. in my opinion the best skateboarder is a tony hawk but my favorite skater is named Manuel Herrera he is apart of a skateboard team by braille skateboarding I watch their videos almost every day I recently started skating 2 months ago and I’m still learning how to do tricks. I and my friend love to skate its really fun when your cruising. There are skating brands called thrasher, spitfire, Santa Cruz, toy machine, primitive, ccs, etc. although my favorite brands are thrasher and spitfire.