Skateboarding Culture Region: United States, Global (origin: California) A street sport culture born in 1970s California with its own fashion, video art, DIY skatepark building, and outsider creative identity. Related Cultures Punk — A raw, anti-establishment movement born in the 1970s with DIY ethics, three-chor Skateboarding Culture — From backyard half-pipes to Olympic recognition — skate culture's anti-establish Competitive Eating — A niche sport micro-culture of hot dog contests, speed eating records, Nathan's Parkour / Freerunning — An urban movement discipline treating the city as a playground, with fluid obsta Surf Rock — A reverb-drenched guitar music culture evoking beach life, hot rods, and endless Punk Rock — DIY ethics, three chords, and the truth — from CBGB and the Sex Pistols to moder