Sport
2 public collections on Loreline.
Documentaries
- SkateboardingSidewalk surfing became a sport twice, crashed twice, and each time came back on a different board. This archive follows the objects and the places as much as the tricks: clay wheels and the urethane that replaced them in 1972, the drained pools of the 1976 drought, plywood vert ramps, the Powell-Peralta videos that built an industry, the handrails and ledges that made street skating, Burnside and the concrete people poured themselves, and the contests that ended up at the Olympics. Women skated from the beginning and are here throughout rather than in a segment of their own at the end. The free photographic record before 1990 is thin and the reason is copyright, not absence, so the early decades lean on film and on Dutch press photography rather than on the Californian imagery everyone remembers.
- SurfingHe'e nalu was Hawaiian for centuries before anyone else had a word for it, and the boards were olo and alaia long before they were foam. This archive starts in Polynesia rather than in California: the kapu system fell in October 1819, six months before the first missionaries landed, and Mark Twain watched crowds surfing in 1866, so the story of a sport banned and then rescued does not survive its own sources. What follows is the revival around Duke Kahanamoku, the boards getting shorter, the tour, the big-wave decades from Waimea to Nazare, and the Olympic era. Peru is here properly, with the reed caballitos de totora that people rode before the Spanish arrived. Women surfed from the beginning and are throughout, not gathered at the end.