1980's Progress and Videonation
When popular interest in skateboarding briefly re-emerged in the mid-1980s, it was not due to any particular technical innovation, though skateboard manufacturers were always experimenting with different materials in the production of decks. Instead, skateboarding videos featuring skateboarders performing extremely difficult and dangerous stunts using ramps, stairs, and even handrails generated new interest in the sport. With the invention of VHS. Stacey Peralta and George Powell's Bones Brigade team starts recording skateboarding videos that will reach kids all over the world.
Skateboarding continues to grow as the anti-establishment subculture that we all know it as. Skateboarders had become hell bent on progressing their passion for the sport so they started building there own ramps in their backyards. Aside from the ramps they built in their backyards to skate on they saw the whole world as there skatepark and took to the streets.
At the same time skateboard art had also emerged. The bottom of skateboard decks were now elaborately decorated with logos and other designs. In the late 1980s, companies like Kryptonics, Powell Peralta, Santa Cruz and Vision dominated the international market of the scene.
During this time many new board shapes took form allowing for skaters to overcome obstacles otherwise impossible. Continued resistance to skateboarders led to another down-turn in popularity and at the end of the 1980s, skateboarding took yet another dive in popularity when vert skateboarding became far less popular than street skateboarding.