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Summary: This book is great
Review: I love the book, it brought back memories, tought me alot, and took away my feelings of getting too old for the sport. Recomended for all, it's really exciting to watch skateboarding evolve as you turn the pages of history, as captured in this book
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Summary: *jaw drops*
Review: I love this book! From the moment my mom bought it for me I knew i wouldn't be able to keep it down. I finished and i still can't! An excellent book. It covers the entire history all the way Airwalks to XYZ clothing, he wrote about how each company got their name. And if you do some research they are all true . Thats why i think that this time the COncreate wave will stay in place.
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Summary: rollin!
Review: I saw this book in Barnes and Noble and picked it up- No, I bought it! Sorry Amazon. This books has great articles by the best boarders. California skaters lookout for Jersey riders cause we are way better! Way to go Michael Brooke on this book. Way overdue man.
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Summary: Brings back a lot of good memories.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I've been skating for over 20 years. It was great to see the old pictures and products. I plan on ordering some copies as gifts for all the guys I used to skate with. Where else could you read about the old Z-Boys and the history of Dog Town?
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Summary: awesome!!!!!!!
Review: I was a decent skateboarder 5 years ago. This book is great. I found the stories cool and totally rockin' The pictures are great and I finally get to see the faces and learn about the lives of the great boarders I only vaguely heard about. I cant believe someone actually put this book together. Totally awesome.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: It doesn't matter what decade you skated in, this book has it all! It will appeal to new schoolers too. The photos are great and the personal stories from skaters are very interesting. There's some stuff missing, but then again, the book covers 40 years in 200 pages. Of particular interest is the interview with Tony Alva and the story of the urethane wheel. Highly recommended and a lot of fun to read.
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Summary: A very well written and researched history of skateboarding.
Review: It makes me feel old seeing as to how The Concrete Wave is a history book and most of the events mentioned happened in my lifetime. But I'm not over the hill by any stretch of the imagination. Hailing from Long Beach California I saw skate culture rise and fall and rise again in the 80's and 90's. Skate fashion, culture and music where very influential in my neighborhood. Many of my friends skated, not me, I had less coordination than the proverbial bull in the china shop. But it didn't stop me from making plenty of skater friends. There are many skate stories in the back of my mind. Author Michael Brooke helped me remember the better ones. The Concrete Wave is one of the best books I've picked up in a long while. Michael carefully researched and put together a fine read featuring articles and interviews from the biggest names in skating. The industry of skateboarding is not overlooked in this book. The founders and pioneers of the sport also have a prominent place in The Concrete Wave. There were a few things left out in this edition. Die hard skaters want more one-on-one interviews. Old-school skaters want more of the history. But for the first edition of any skateboarding history book, the Concrete Wave is interesting and great read. If you're an old-time skateboarder, someone who's never tried the sport or someone new to skateboarding I'd recommend The Concrete Wave highly. I look forward to reading every edition of the Concrete Wave down the road.
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Summary: CORNY
Review: It's only almost good enough (not even) to check out at the book store . . . No reason to buy it. And I know skating, REAL skating! This is WHACK.
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Summary: badly jaded book
Review: Possibly one of the most lame jaded skateboard books written without good fact checking and bought and paid for by a fausto vitello mythology of SF- centric [stuff].
It is full of horrible misconceptions and leaves out the real people who built the sport. It is total BS by a dude in the frozen north who is so detached from the scene.absolute GARBAGE, should be a 0.
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Summary: Doody !
Review: Simply stated: This book is garbage! If you are a real skater and really know skating you know that this book is for those who know almost nothing about our sport. The book not only looks horrible (circa late 80's ugly post new wave design), there is alomst nothing to be gained from looking at the pictures or reading the 3rd grade level writing throughout. If people want to really know something important about REAL SKATEBOARDING they should go buy "DOGTOWN - The Legend of the Z-BOYS" That is the real skateboarder's BIBLE. The Concrete Wave book really is a piece of doo-doo. The history of skateboarding? hardly. Don't buy it, in fact if you own it, you may just want to recycle it. Anyone who gave this more than a 2 star review is not a real hard core skater, that is obvious to anyone who is. SKATE4LIFE!
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