IMPOSSIBLE: RODNEY MULLEN, RYAN SHECKLER, AND THE By Cole Louison

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ISBN-10
0762770260
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Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0762770260
ISBN-13
9780762770267
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Book Title
Impossible : Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, and the Fantastic History of Skateboarding
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Extreme Sports, General, Skateboarding
Publication Year
2011
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Yes
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Sports & Recreation
Author
Cole Louison
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Trade Paperback

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0.8 in
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"David Foster Wallace on a skateboard." -- GQ "With its infectious enthusiasm, precise lyricism, and rigorous deeply-felt reporting, the book brings to life the sport's historical roots, its cultural significance, and most of all, its artistic possibilities. I was hooked from the start. --Ian Crouch, The New Yorker "The last time I thought seriously about professional skateboarders, I was hoping to become one. This book blew it wide open for me. Until now, only obsessive freaks had any idea how interesting this sport is. And even obsessive freaks should stick around for the tale Louison has so lucidly spun. --John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Blood Horses and Pulphead "I'd never so much as stood on a board, let alone heard the names Sheckler and Mullen, but I found myself entranced by the fascinating cultural movement they created. The Impossible is a universal story, told in imminently readable fashion by a tremendously talented writer." --Michael Koryta, New York Times best-selling author of The Ridge and Those Who Wish Me Dead "The book provides a deep and nuanced insight into how contemporary skateboarding has evolved and where it will go. It honors the beauty, danger, and complexity of the sport, and lays bare its physical and psychological demands, and greatness. The Impossible is some of the finest writing on skating I've seen. I read it in one sitting." --Bret Anthony Johnston, best-selling author of Corpus Christi and Remember Me Like This, "GQ researcher Cole Louison gave himself an impossible assignment: to write the complete history of a sport without it reading like a dusty encyclopedia or self-promotional wiki page. And make it interesting to an audience of people who don't really care about that sport (while not losing the millions of potential readers who do). Plus explain what an 'ollie' is.... [H]e's accomplished just that." - GQ "Louison is both booster and critic, and writes with an eye to contradictions-skateboarding is a loner sport with a strong community, an outlaw pastime with big-money corporate backing-and gets to the heart of an often misunderstood pursuit." - The New Yorker "Louison . . . has a light reportorial touch, a sense of the absurd and a sincere, affable persona…. [He] has turned his attention to the skateboarding world-a milieu that suffers no shortage of absurd, and absurdly talented, characters…. Through Louison's eyes we see a once small subculture, now thoroughly colonized by mainstream media, public relations personnel, and other non-skate actors…. That Louison is able to successfully convey the excitement of skateboarding to the layman without offending the connoisseur is a testament to his well-researched grasp of a sometimes opaque subject." -McSweeney's Internet Tendency, "GQ researcher Cole Louison gave himself an impossible assignment: to write the complete history of a sport without it reading like a dusty encyclopedia or self-promotional wiki page. And make it interesting to an audience of people who don't really care about that sport (while not losing the millions of potential readers who do). Plus explain what an 'ollie' is.... [H]e's accomplished just that." --GQ"Louison is both booster and critic, and writes with an eye to contradictions--skateboarding is a loner sport with a strong community, an outlaw pastime with big-money corporate backing--and gets to the heart of an often misunderstood pursuit." --The New Yorker"Louison . . . has a light reportorial touch, a sense of the absurd and a sincere, affable persona.... [He] has turned his attention to the skateboarding world--a milieu that suffers no shortage of absurd, and absurdly talented, characters.... Through Louison's eyes we see a once small subculture, now thoroughly colonized by mainstream media, public relations personnel, and other non-skate actors.... That Louison is able to successfully convey the excitement of skateboarding to the layman without offending the connoisseur is a testament to his well-researched grasp of a sometimes opaque subject." --McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood. The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating. He does so largely by recounting the careers of the sport's Yoda-Rodney Mullen, who, in his mid-forties, remains the greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern skateboarding-tricks and its Luke Skywalker-Ryan Sheckler, who became its youngest pro athlete and a celebrity at thirteen. The story begins in the 1960s, when the first boards made their way to land in the form of off-season surfing in southern California. It then follows the sport's spikes, plateaus, and drops-including its billion-dollar apparel industry and its connection with art, fashion, and music. In The Impossible, we come to know intimately not only skateboarding but also two very different, equally fascinating geniuses who have shaped the sport more than anyone else. Book jacket., The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating., The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating. The first true journalistic history of skateboarding and its culture.

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