`Ok, I've been riding  skateboards since the late 1970's and ther is A LOT of misinformation in this article, in  multiple areas. The ``soft`` boards are actually slalom boards, which are fiberglass and wood(look up G&S; Fiberflex), the entire histpory in  a bit wonky at best, and the whole thing seems to written by kids who have no concept of where the sport came from. For instance, Ollie Gelfand invented the ollie(hmmm imagine that) Rodney Mullin took it to the street(I remeber the first time I saw him do one in person, I was awe). I think I'll dig out some older books, and magazines, and do  a bit of editting on this myself. There is so much missing, out of context, and just plain wrong, that it might be better to scrap the entire thing and start from scratch.`