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Long before co-founding Concrete Wave Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, before Longboarding for Peace<\/strong><\/a>, prior to writing the book Concrete Wave: The History of Skateboarding<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, and decades before creating The Inside Atlas<\/strong><\/a>, Micheal Brooke<\/strong> was a Canadian kid who was obsessed with skateboarding. So obsessed that it shaped his entire life.<\/p>\n Over the past summer, Brooke, now 61, decided to pull all his skateboarding thoughts together into one “book” a.k.a. manifesto. It’s on online book hosted by Vandem Longboard Shop<\/strong><\/a> in the UK and it’s titled: 50 Years of Skateboarding<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n If you’re feeling nostalgic for Skateboarder Magazine<\/strong><\/em>, the dawn of urethane wheels, G&S Fibreflex<\/strong> boards, Warren Bolster<\/strong>, Steve Rocco<\/strong>, and the rest and<\/em> have a few minutes to spend with a heartfelt, rambling, personal love letter to skateboarding from a true fan, then by all means, click the link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n