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Skateboard injuries [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Sports Medicine, 1980
One hundred and nineteen cases of injuries sustained by skateboard users are reviewed. A significant proportion of the injuries sustained were fractures. The absence of adequate protective measures was noted. A decrease in the popularity of the sport, as judged by the annual incidence of skateboard injuries, is apparent in this series.
M. Sheila Christian, O. Khan
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Infraestructura cultural juvenil en la producción de la ciudad mercancía.

open access: yesCuadernos de Antropología Social, 2021
Desde el año 2009, el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (GCBA) viene incorporando equipamiento de distintas dimensiones para el desarrollo de la práctica de skateboarding y produciendo espectáculos que combinan “deporte y cultura urbana”, con el ...
Maria Rosa Privitera Sixto
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Tracing postrepresentational visions of the city: representing the unrepresentable Skateworlds of Tyneside [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In any visualisation of the city more is left unseen than made visible. Contemporary visualisations of the city are increasingly influenced by quantification, and thus anything which cannot be quantified is hidden.
Bagge, Jan Peter   +9 more
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The contribution of skateboarding to societal challenges. [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2017
Skateboarding started in the 1950s on the west coast of the United States of America (USA) as a response to a desire of surfers to continue their activity “when the surf was flat” This qualitative study focuses on the perception of what skateboarding is ...
Dr PS Radikonyana   +2 more
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How people find videos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
At present very little is known about how people locate and view videos 'in the wild'. This study draws a rich picture of everyday video seeking strategies and video information needs, based on an ethnographic study of New Zealand university students ...
Cunningham, Sally Jo, Nichols, David M.
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Comme une aiguille sur un sillon d’asphalte

open access: yesProjets de Paysage, 2021
Focusing on the bodily sensations induced by street skateboarding, this article focuses on knowledge of the environment shaped by the practice of a sport.
Julien Glauser
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4 design themes for skateboarding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Interactive technology can support exertion activities, with many examples focusing on improving athletic performance. We see an opportunity for technology to also support extreme sports such as skateboarding, which often focus primarily on the ...
Mueller, F, Pijnappel, S
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Might as well jump: sound affects muscle activation in skateboarding. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
The aim of the study is to reveal the role of sound in action anticipation and performance, and to test whether the level of precision in action planning and execution is related to the level of sensorimotor skills and experience that listeners possess ...
Paola Cesari   +4 more
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Questioning policy, youth participation and lifestyle sports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Young people have been identified as a key target group for whom participation in sport and physical activity could have important benefits to health and wellbeing and consequently have been the focus of several government policies to increase ...
Andrew Church   +38 more
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Insider Knowledge, Outsider Practice: The Disruptive Liberatory Potential of Skateboarding in US Higher Education

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Education
This conceptual paper articulates how the unique social, experiential, and navigational perspectives of college skateboarders contribute to their potential as changemakers in higher education.
Eric M. Davidson
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