**nftyskateboards NFT#018 - "Sidewalk Surfboard"**
Skateboarding was created by surfers to practice their sport but it has become much more than that. The culture of the sport has become a way of self-expression and creativity and I love that aspect of it.
By the early 1960s, skateboarding started luring participants from the surfer scene. In 1962 a southern California surf shop, **Val Surf**, began making its own brand of skateboards and struck a deal with Chicago Roller Skate Company for the wheels. The skateboards began to attract everyday surfers who could use the boards when they weren’t in the water, and thus the term **“sidewalk surfer”** was coined.
Additionally, skateboarding ...