{"id":28238,"date":"2010-10-19T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=28238"},"modified":"2017-09-17T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T05:13:11","slug":"chance-cultural-innovation-and-the-evolution-of-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/19\/chance-cultural-innovation-and-the-evolution-of-skateboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance, Innovation, and the Evolution of Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/pictureshow\/2010\/09\/16\/129916872\/skateboarding?ft=1&amp;f=97635953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR photo essay<\/a> by Hugh Holland offers a fun glimpse into the evolution of skateboarding. Holland explains that a drought in mid-1970s Southern California led to the mass draining of swimming pools. Kids with skateboards took one look at the empty pools and invented vertically-driven trick skateboarding as we know it today. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skateboarding#Culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This started the vert trend in skateboarding.\u00a0 With increased control, vert skaters could skate faster and perform more dangerous tricks, such as slash grinds and frontside\/backside airs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah the serendipity of cultural innovation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NPR photo essay by Hugh Holland offers a fun glimpse into the evolution of skateboarding. Holland explains that a drought in mid-1970s Southern California led to the mass draining of swimming pools. Kids with skateboards took one look at the empty pools and invented vertically-driven trick skateboarding as we know it today. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,2123,253,108],"class_list":["post-28238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-environmentnature","tag-history","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28238"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71321,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions\/71321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}