The 60's - The first "ten year cycle"

As we know the first skateboards were invented in the 50's but the 60's is when it shot up and it got all of its fame. In the early 60's companies such as Larry Stevenson's Makaha and Hobie Alter's Hobie began to mass-produce the first true surfing-inspired skateboards.n Skateboarding got it's fame overnight. Over fifty million skateboards were sold within a three year period, and the first skateboard contest was held in Hermosa Beach, CA in 1963. At this point the sport was very famous but then it has it's first "ten year cycle" (From the 50's to today skateboarding has had a time were no one cares about it and it dies out, this is know as a ten year cycle, necessarily it's not 10 years tough.) and it started dieing out. Safety experts decided to call skateboarding an unsafe sport and pursued companies not to sell them and parent not to buy them, this caused skateboarding to die as quick as it started,