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Longboarding is a prominent style of skateboarding. While skateboards focus on the flipping and spinnig of the board, longboards are focused on more on executing turns at high speeds. They say that surfers invented longboards for a way to entertain themselves when the waves were flat. Surfers soon began to realize that you can perform the same turns and maneuvers on the pavement. According to skate-log, Makaha and Hobie began to produce the first surf inspired longboards in the 1960s. In the 1960s they used clay wheels which made many people turn away from the sport because it was unsafe according to government officials. In the 1970s the sport began to take off with the new invention of the urethane wheels. This provided better traction allowing maneuvers to be easy. In the 1980s- 1990s longboarding was mostly unknown thanks to skateboarding. Skateboarding dominated until the early 1990s where longboarding became recognized as a sport. Today longborders can now hit up to +30mph and has many different styles of decks, trucks and wheels.

  Foster, Philip. "The History of Longboard, Skateboards."Live Strong. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://www.livestrong.com/article/367818-history-longboarding-skateboards/>.