The 70's - The innovation of flip tricks, Dogtown, Zephyr Team, another 10 year cycle

The 70's is were skateboarding started to become more technical. Larry Stevenson invented the kicktail, and the first generation of skateboarders laid down the foundation of tricks and style. Even tough the kicktail was invented and people could do flipticks now the tricks and skateboarding was limited due to the lack of gear. That's when the urethane wheel was invented, revolutionizing the sport. The new wheels provided much better traction and speed and, combined with new skateboard specific trucks, allowed skaters to push the difficulty of maneuvers to new levels. Tricks at this time consisted of surfing maneuvers done on flat ground or on banks. Now, with the tail and wheels, surfers and skateboarders could fulfill the experience of riding a wave. To make it better they found empty pools and pipes (no not the smokeing ones but more like this: Well, actually this is not a pipe, but you get the image) and now with all of these basics down skateboarding was free to experiment with and new things were born.
The 70's was a great time for skateboarding during the late 70's the sport skyrocketed. During the last 70's the skateboarding basics were done, we had trucks, wheels, kicktail, and everything to make it feel like they wanted to, so people started creating new things for a skateboard. This is when the first professional (pro) skateboarders came, the Zephyr team was born, The Z boys. The Z Boys