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Skateboarders’ self-identities are tied to the number and difficulty of the moves they perform. Participants constantly try to invent even more spectacular (and dangerous) moves, working together at the skate park performing, practicing, and acting as mirrors for each other as well as relying on information in videos and magazines, the archives of skateboarding history. In the United States such magazines as Skateboarder, Thrasher, and Big Brother and in the United Kingdom Skateboard!, R.A.D., and Sidewalk Surfer are the products of skateboarders who publish what the community has to say while recording the history-in-the-making of the subculture; the great proportion of still and high-speed sequence photographs reveal the performance emphasis of the skateboarding ethos.

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