The Skaters Bible

How to skateboard ? If you are currently reading this then it means that you're already passionate about skateboarding. Or that you dream about skateboarding but you don't even own one.This guide is here to help loosen your inflamed tibias after a little session with your friends, to pass the time in the toilets, at the beach or even during maths or history. We'll keep that one to ourselves.Through these pages, written by skaters for skaters, you'll learn the flat, grinds, the ramp, how to be the king of the skateboarding game, to innovate and finally, most importantly, having fun on your board and enjoying it while doing so.Skateboarding is a world far more vast than we think, with various types of people from different backgrounds. That's the beauty of it. Moreover there are absolutely no rules which also means no limits. Each skater is free to do as he pleases, to create his tricks, modules, to film...This book will teach beginners, as well as confirmed skaters, the nearly full amount of existing skateboarding tricks to this day.Not wanting to do things halfway, and being truly passionate about skateboarding, I've pushed this book as far as I can to teach you how to skate as best I can.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

Briefly outlines the history of ice skating, discusses the basic skills and equipment, and describes the techniques of hockey speed, and figure skating

This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of contemporary Christianity and youth culture, focusing on evangelical engagements with punk, hip hop, surfing, and skateboarding. Ibrahim Abraham draws on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of musicians and sports enthusiasts in the USA, UK, Australia, and South Africa, and the analysis of evangelical subcultural media including music, film, and extreme sports Bibles. Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures makes innovative use of multiple theories of youth cultures and subcultures from sociology and cultural studies, and introduces the "serious leisure perspective" to the study of religion, youth, and popular culture. Engaging with the experiences of Pentecostal punks, surfing missionaries, township rappers, and skateboarding youth pastors, this book makes an original contribution to the sociology of religion, youth studies, and the study of religion and popular culture.

The skateboard decks documented in this special collection are immaculately photographed and laid-out for maximum graphic glory. In "The Bible", the visuals take center stage, but the fascinating vignettes and recollections provided by an A-list of skateboarding personalities from Tony Hawk to Mike Vallely, Mark Gonzales to Stacy Peralta bring context to the aesthetic mayhem. The board graphics within The Disposable Skateboard Bible are broken down by decade: (beginning in 1960) documenting some of the earliest deck designs; through the 70s and the game-changing advent of urethane wheels; the 80s with its ups and downs, big decks and mass-market popularity; finally, the graphic chaos of the 90s through the turn of the millennium. This book is a blue chip, must-have reference for any graphics library.

As a sport, an art, a fitness activity, nothing quite beats figure skating for excitement, grace, beauty, or fun. Now former U.S. Champion figure skater John Misha Petkevich shows how you can find your full potential as a figure skater no matter what your age or ability. The lavishly illustrated volume includes: Detailed instructional-photo sequences What to look for in skates, clothing, rinks, and instruction Getting started 6 basic turns that every figure skater should know 15 spins that you can master The keys to preforming 19 clasic figure skating jumps and splits

The Bible speaks of a people who were greatly rejected: the Samaritans. In both the Old and New Testaments the reference to the Samaritans was always marginalized. Jesus emphasized forgiveness and mercy to this people based on parables and their journeys to Samaritan villages. One question that should be answered is? Who are the Samaritans of our day? In an urban context, I think it would be the specific groups (the undergrounds: rockers, rappers, surfers, skaters, urban artists, etc.). Besides these there is a large contingent outside the church s lens: many poor, dependent chemists, prostitutes, homosexuals, foreigners, deaf people, among others ... That are ignored by the local church; perhaps out of prejudice, perhaps out of ignorance and the most likely not to know how to evangelize, welcome, disciple. This book aims to help the Brazilian church as well as urban missions enthusiasts to correctly achieve these segments based on the skate tribe. He is yet another inspiring guide who will help you become a better leader, to develop the ministry with trustworthy ministry to you and your team..