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Skateboarding

competitions involving tricks or races while standing on a flat board with rollers attached at the bottom. At its core, the objective is the highest judged score or best combined score from runs and tricks. Participation format: Individual athletes. It is typically contested on or in Street course, park, vert ramp, or freestyle area. Scoring is based on Judged scoring by difficulty, execution, style, and course use. Core equipment includes Skateboard, course/ramp, and protective gear depending on rules. Important forms include Street, Park, Freestyle. Listed competitions include World Skateboarding Championships, World Skateboarding Tour, Olympic Games Skateboarding. Origin/development: USA / moderne Skateboardkultur, 1950. The sport is actively practiced today.

LevelMain sport FamilySkate Family CategoryCycling sport

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Classification

Category Cycling sport

Family Skate Family

Level Main sport

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung competitions involving tricks or races while standing on a flat board with rollers attached at the bottom.

Geeignet für Fits if you want to practice outdoors and see progress through many short attempts, you value board feel, style and technique over fixed practice times, you expect falls and take protection seriously.

Cost 20-200 EUR depending on equipment and venue. 0-80 EUR per month depending on class, club, or venue. 5-50 EUR per month if a club structure exists. For rare sports, cost and availability vary strongly.

First progress Depending on sport, from immediate to several months.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

Skateboard, helmet, optional wrist/knee/elbow pads, flat shoes and safe surface.

First steps

Start on smooth flat ground with stance, pushing, braking and slow turning before tricks.
Look for a skatepark, smooth plaza, skateshop class, local crew or beginner workshop.

Look for a skatepark, smooth plaza, skateshop class, local crew or beginner workshop.

Start only in the appropriate source-described context and follow local rules.

Weitere Angaben

Aliases Electric skateboarding, E-skate, Electric Skateboarding, E-Skate

Tags individual, einzeln, skateboarding, cycling-sport, skate-familie, radsport, electric-skateboarding, e-skate

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

The objective is the highest judged score or best combined score from runs and tricks.

Teilnehmer

Individual athletes by discipline and division.

Teamgröße

One skater per run/attempt.

Spielfeld

Street course, park bowl, vert ramp, or freestyle area.

Dauer

Runs and trick attempts under event regulations.

Wertung

Judged points by trick quality, difficulty, execution, style, and course use.

Gewinnbedingung

Victory comes by highest total score.

Ausrüstung

skateboard
helmet/protection by rule
skatepark/course

Wichtige Regelpunkte

time violation
wrong start order
safety/equipment breach

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

World Skate (World Skate)
World Skate (World Skate)

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