I'm not quite sure, but I'm guessing around the 1970-80's is when it started getting popular, around the years of Tony Alva and Stacy Paralta. Around 2000 the skateboard that most common people used was made and that most likely had a huge impact on Skateboarding as well.
Skateboarding
Basketball is a more widely played sport but I guess its whoever you talk to Skateboarding is much more popular than basketball because I ask people what is your favorite sport between basketball or skateboarding and they say skateboarding.
Sometimes, teachers like to pick favorites. The student doesn't have to be popular to be a favorite of the teacher.
I think Skateboarding is more popular.
No.
definetly in California
Baseball. It's Americas sport although skateboarding is one of the most popular extreme sports
right now
skateboarding
its really popular
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Vert skateboarding was much more popular in the early through late eighties until street skateboarding began to rise in popularity in the early nineties. Skateboarding is much more popular presently than it was in the legacy years of the seventies and eighties. Both vert and street skating have a healthy following to date.