One day, a young man named Alan Gelfand revolutionized Skateboarding. What he did is while he was beating his skateboard tail against the ground, causing the front to rise, then jump with the board about 5 inches above the ground. This technique would later be called "Ollie". That was what marked the difference between land surfing and skateboarding, a new sport was born.
Now that the skate could be taken off the floor, a whole new world of movement was waiting to be discovered. Throughout the US, children were building their own boards. Skateboarding became a sport of discovery. An old businessman saw the market stallion behind skateboarding and invested in it; Now these guys could buy their boards and not have to build them themselves. The market exploded and became an industry.
