Trying to buy your 1st skateboard could be both daunting and exciting, especially since your early experiences with the sport will likely shape how you approach it in the future (or indeed fakie).
The equipment’s minimalism is core component of skate boarding’s appeal. The skateboard consists of a wooden platform over which the rider stands and trucks that act as guiding axles. There are 4 wheels upon these trucks, each with its own pair of 8 roller bearing races countersunk into to the wheel’s core, allowing the skaters to reach very fast speeds.
This isn’t to imply that all boards are created equal, or that the variations between them won’t have an impact on your capacity to enjoy and succeed in skateboarding.
Taste, on the other hand, is something that no guide can compensate for. The one and only way to know for sure if that board is beckoning to you is to tread on it and experience the tingle.

Skateboarding Stores
Skateboarding is distinguished by the allure of the skate store, which serves as a crossroad and central hub as well as a brick – and – mortar place.
Although the internet (like postal mail before it) can provide a courier service to skaters lacking accessibility to a local skate shop, logic indicates that if skating is something that you want to spend your enthusiasm in, it is advisable to go and step on the board before handing over your money. Take advantage of the competent, pleasant, and enthusiastic personnel at skateboard stores by asking as many inquiries as you can!
Skateboard decks
Skateboarding decks are nearly typically manufactured of 7 rectangular planks of Canadian maple, cross-laminated for durability and fused together along with epoxy resin before even being moulded and carved into the required shape for weeks under hundreds of pounds of force of steam pressure. Recent skateboards have a dual-directional ‘popsicle’ design that allows any trick to be performed backwards or forwards (‘fakie’) or even in the opposing stance as the skater’s normal leading foot (‘switch stance’).
Trucks
The navigation sensitivity of each truck is determined by the durometer of the padded bearing surfaces in the counterbalanced vertical navigation column: delicate rubbers provide such a softer steer and tightened turns, while rigid rubbers offer reliability and lower the risk of wheel bite on the board under surface all through high-impact landings.

The domination of 3 firms has emerged in the board truck market: Independent, known for their reactive steering geometry, Venture, known for their light weightiness, and Thunder, which sits halfway there between the two. You can learn more about different types of skateboard trucks and wheels by looking online.
Wheels
Today’s skateboarding wheels are constructed of urethane, a material manufactured by DuPont with a density of 100a on the durometer index. Street skateboarders favour smaller wheels in the reduced 50s (which are much more attentive to low balance adjustments) and a greater durometer, which enables for managed sliding and skidding out of stunts, whereas switchover skaters prefer big wheels (all around 58–60-millimetre size mark) with a wider running surface as well as a snug fitting durometer all around 97a mark. The heat created by skating does not deteriorate urethane, making it ideal for use as a wheel.