American Sports Data found that in 2002 there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world, however the sports witnessed it’s first boom in the 1960s. Originally a “hobby” for off-season surfers, skateboarding got to the point of popularity as “sidewalk surfing” that ABC broadcast the international skateboard championships, and this was before urethane wheels had even been introduced. So, imagine this video in that light, a freestyle skateboard championship for the ladies division in 1965 from Anaheim, California, televised nationally. Peep it here now.

via Nerdcore