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This Weekend's Academic Skateboarding Conference in London

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 29 2018, @12:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the pushing-boarders dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Possibly the first academic conference on skateboarding starts on Fri 1 Jun 2018 with an introduction to skateboarding and free beer (if you're old enough and I'm not sure mixing beer and skateboards is a good idea). The call for papers finished in Mar 2018 but the speakers are a mostly a mix of former professional skateboarders running sportwear brands and amateur skateboards who are now academics.

The print edition of the Evening Standard newspaper described it as a board meeting. That's an old joke and I believe that referring to surfboarding and skateboarding as board meetings was in a promotional video from the California Tourist Board. (Presumably inspired during a board meeting.)

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:05PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:05PM (#685689) Journal

    This is a topic I personally researched back in my early teens. It turns out that it is exactly as bad an idea as most people would expect it to be.

    ... However, more research and grant money is needed.

    - First Pushing Boarders Conference

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