https://www.badbillys.com/tags/crossover-market/Recent content in Crossover Market on BadBillys.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBadBillys.comSun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/halfpipe-mainstream-skating-advertising-1985/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/halfpipe-mainstream-skating-advertising-1985/ <p>Eleven minutes into <em>Back to the Future</em>, released July 3, 1985, Marty McFly grabs the handle of a child's wooden scooter, rips the crate-and-handlebar top off it, and turns the deck into a push board to outrun Biff Tannen through a 1955 town square. The stunt skating was choreographed by professional freestyler Per Welinder and stuntman Bob Schmelzer, and it landed in front of an audience that had no relationship to skate parks, <em>Thrasher</em> magazine, or the contest circuit. For millions of moviegoers, that chase was the most exciting thing a skateboard had ever done. Professional skaters would later cite the scene as the moment skating looked, to the general public, like something worth doing.</p>