The obvious statement is, "That to know where you are going, it helps to know where you've come from". It is the "where you have come from" that we wanted to explore by creating this online skateboard museum. Let us start by saying that we are in no way claiming to be experts in this field. All references to dates are estimations based only on our limited understanding.
To nail down the true beginning of skateboarding in not as easy of a task as you light think. Whether you come from the scooter, soapbox, or butchered rollerskate school of theology, it's not hard to imagine people standing and rolling on various objects at least as early as the turn of the century. Our assembly of artifacts is essentially the main element of the museum, and we have attempted to display them in chronological order to the best of our knowledge.
So let's go now on a journey that's rickety as hell in the early Daredevil stages, and through development over the passage of linear time, becomes refined to a point of pure artistic expression, and on into technical realms where maneuvers become like mathematical equations. All made possible by skaters influenced board design and in turn by board designs that influenced how people skate.
Form follows function, function follows form... and on goes skateboarding. Ever evolving, along with its equipment.
