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skateboards have been around since the 1950s. Skateboarding became popular due to the fact that it was something good surfers could do when water conditions werent good.

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this can have as many answers for this but i have skated for 3 years

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Skateboards have been around since the 1950's and have faded in/out of popularity ever since. Used at first by surfers and then picked up by the public in the late 1960's.

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a while,since 1980

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