Street luge is an extreme gravity-powered activity that involves riding a streetluge board (sometimes referred to as a sled) down a paved road or course. Street luge is also known as land luge or road luge. Like skateboarding, street luge is often done for sport and for recreation.Street luge was born in the early 1970's in Southern California as "downhill skateboarding."
Gary Sconce built numerous snow-ski based downhill skateboards for himself and his friends, and using his 1961 Ford van to haul them up, started the Glendora Mountain Road racers. With the advent of urethane rubber wheels and precision bearings, the sport really took off.
Sconce originally designed the downhill skateboard with the help of a computer to eliminate speed wobbles at any speed. The Glendora Mountain Road racers and the Huntington Beach based Underground Racing Association were constantly racing down Glendora Mountain Road until the advent of strict laws against the sport.
By the early 1980's Sconce's board had front and rear wind farings, four trucks, eight wheels and ran at night with lights. This early form of the sport is now referred to as "classic style" or "butt boarding". n 1975 the first professional race was held at Signal Hill, California and hosted by the U.S. Skateboard Association.
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