Links and Resources

Skateboards and skateboarding culture are one of the most exciting cultural phenomena of the past half century or so. Rest assured, you don’t need to be a pro skater, or an adolescent rebel (as some people liked to portray skateboarders at one point) to be a skateboarder. If you’re new to skateboarding, and interested in picking it up as a new hobby, a convenient and energy efficient means of transportation, or even learn awesome tricks and develop skateboarding into your art form, there are plenty of resources out there for you.
You can find more stuff on the history and evolution of skateboarding, skater gear, skateboarding tricks, and the skateboarding community, as well as skateboard shops online.
These are some useful links you might want to check out:

Skateboarder 2.0 is a comprehensive skateboarding information site that has stuff on the history of skateboarding, including the development and description of skateboarding tricks.

How 2 Skate has lots of tips and tricks on skating, both for beginners and for experts. It also has skateboarding videos, music, guides, news, and discussion boards for the skater community.

Skateboard City is another skateboarding resource site, with tips, videos, and a forum.

Bob’s Trick Tips is a site dedicated specifically to all types of skateboarding tricks of varying complexity, including skateboarding videos of tricks being performed.

Skateboard Music is about, well, music related to skateboarding. It has lists of songs and videos with skateboarding themes.

Most search engine directories, like Google or Yahoo, also have directory listings for websites dedicated to skateboarding.