Before the intro scene of Back to the Future, I don't think anyone seriously considered it to be a good idea to grab your skateboard and latch onto the back of moving vehicles. But somehow Huey Lewis singing "Power of Love" in the background just made it unbelievably cool.
If you really watch the scene closely, you'll see that riding a skateboard -- while holding onto a vehicle traveling at 50 mph -- helps you make friends. In the intro, Marty McFly passed by a ballet studio and randomly waves to some dancers (the kids are dancing in the middle of a school day by the way--aren't they afraid of Mr. Stricklan?) and the dancers pass him a "If-you-didn't-have-a-weird -time-travel- relationship-with-your-mom-I'd totally-go-steady" wave. Then later, in TV's first skateboard chase scene, everyone in the 1950s (including his mom...creepy) decides Marty is just the man for being able to work that board and get the bad kids covered in manure.
Note: I only tried pulling a "Marty" once. The skateboard kept tipping me over down the driveway. When I got to the bottom, a car went flying by and I was like "Dude, that thing is going fast, if I grab it, I'll loose a hand.
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