- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books (Oct 15 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811840530
- ISBN-13: 978-0811840538
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 19 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#729,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #52 in Books > Sports > Individual Sports > Skateboarding
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Product Description
From Publishers Weekly
Despite the subtitle, this homegrown, lowdown book comprises a full-blown history of skateboarding through paradigmatic case studies. Former Santa Barbara Independent reporter Hamm, who has been skateboarding since age six and had a concrete "bowl" in his front yard, begins with a profile of the 55-year-old Bill Coleman and the Northern California scene of the 1960s and '70s and shoots forward from there. Some of the chapters cover favored locales ("Pools," "Pipes," "Ramps," "Streets"), others encapsulate decades, from the '60s to the present. Hamm writes in West Coast border vernacular ("kids became more stoked on learning how to frontside boardslide a hardrail than on smacking an alley-oop body jar on an extension with four feet of vert"), covering everything from the perils of taking a 40 mph turn on wet pavement to the pitfalls of corporate sponsorship. The 100 color and b&w photos, which he has culled from within the skateboarding community, are fetish-magazine hot if you're into it, but may seem somewhat anonymous and repetitive if not. The same could be said for the book as a whole, as beautifully designed and as lovingly pieced together as it is.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Not just a pastime, skateboarding is also a means of transport, a sport and a lifestyle. Scarred for Life is the ultimate insider's view into skateboarding culture. Told through the lives of people who were there (from as far back as the 1960s), its 11 stories and 100 photographs give readers a street-level history of skateboarding.
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MILES PER HOUR. Watching the race from turn two, a steep and sweeping ninety-degree left-hander, the fastest section of the course, Coleman had seen the crash coming. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
MILES PER HOUR. Watching the race from turn two, a steep and sweeping ninety-degree left-hander, the fastest section of the course, Coleman had seen the crash coming. Read the first page
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Scarred for Life, Nov 22 2004
By Judi O - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Scarred for Life: Eleven Stories About Skateboarders (Paperback)
Finally a skateboard book that did it's research. Amazing photo's and a good read. This is definetly a must have book. It's nice to see skateboarders that have been true to the sport finally get some photo's in print. Skateboarding is a lifestyle to most not just a thing to do because everyones doing it. Keith really did his homework. Good job!
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excellent look at the culture, Jun 25 2006
By Hammer Head - Published on Amazon.com
This book is obviously written by someone who not only knows how to tell a good story, do a good interview, and find interesting people, it's really written by someone who KNOWS what he's talking about and knows how to translate it to others, this is a great book on skateboarding culture. The Jay Adams story alone is worth the price.
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Scarred...., May 6 2009
By T. Stanford - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Scarred for Life: Eleven Stories About Skateboarders (Paperback)
When I read this book for the first time I thought it was a history of skateboarding type book, but I was wrong. It is a book of stories about the people who made skateboarding history!! Keith Hamm did a great job writing this book. He uncovered info that I had never knew or even thought of. I am waiting for more from Keith Hamm especially about Jay Adams and more pool skateing. Yeah!!! Get a copy and read it for yourself. It is a good edition to a skate library. Team AM approved!!
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