How to buy skateboards for newbies (skateboarding knowledge)

On the skateboarding novice how to choose a skateboard this problem, the Internet has a lot of answers, but as time goes by, all kinds of answers appear in the skateboarding brand more and more, so that just contact with the skateboarding novice can't choose, don't know in the end which brand is good, which merchants are trustworthy, now skateboarding project has become the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games competition, skateboarding has also for the first time become the One of the national Games program, the country also through the Games skateboarding competition selection of Olympic participants, the country's large and small cities also set off the skateboarding fever, skateboarding this free niche sports has gradually entered the public's field of vision, more and more people into the skateboarding movement to go.

Before we continue with the topic of extreme skateboarding, we should first popularize the other "skateboards" in the eyes of the general public, and give you a classification:

1. Pseudo-skateboards: Dragon boards are popular Korean imports, also known as the vitality of the boards, according to the shape of the boards are divided into the space boards, the Bat Board, and so on, and despicable: "cowl board", "twisted ass board", priced at 100-200, the pitfalls of countless children who want to skateboarding youth, the most obvious feature is only two wheels, the board for the plastic or alloy products, as follows:

2. Small fish board, also known as "banana board", "small insect board", barely a member of the skateboard family, the famous brand "Penny", priced at 600 +, the domestic imitations are also many, priced at 100 or so, with its beautiful appearance of small, lightweight, through the strong favor of many skaters. The skater's favor, many people use it as a walking tool, the board material for the ABS plastic-based, single warping, as shown in the following chart:

Penny board

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Truth be told, for those who can't withstand the high-intensity action of the walking fish board, the genuine and imitation goods are about the same, but the genuine workmanship is more exquisite, the quality of accessories a little bit, but the price is a penny a penny, not to mention that the quality of the accessories, but also the quality of the board, and the quality of the board, and the quality of the board. A penny for a penny, not much to say, everyone's opinion is different, as far as cost-effective, who uses who knows.

3. Wooden fishboard, according to the size of the fishboard is divided into a large fishboard, small fishboard, is also mainly for transportation, the board is maple, bamboo or bamboo + maple, single warping, the board paste sandpaper, you can do some simple skateboarding action. Priced at about 200, the major skateboard brand companies have similar products, there are many variants, as shown below:

In addition to the well-known professional skateboarding brands, there are also many toy board brands, because of its action requirements are not very high, so as with the plastic fish board, the toy brands play as usual.

Whether plastic or wooden fishboards, the wheels used are made of polyurethane, with a hardness between 65A and 78A.

4. Longboards

There are three broad categories of longboards: dance boards, all-around boards, and speed boards.

Currently, longboards are selling very well in the Chinese market, especially danceboards (Dancing Boards, or DCs for short), which are relatively simple to use and easy to do some on-board maneuvers, such as crossover steps, on-board turns, ghost steps and so on. A variety of online dance board video, girls will point cross step, turn, shoot a video with a little music plus a little special effects, and often longboard goddess ...... brought up a wave after wave of longboard fever. Danceboard features: double head slightly cocked, the length of the general 106cm and 120cm two kinds, the material has a pure maple, bamboo and wood combination, mixed stripped fiber, etc., the wheels are also polyurethane material, hardness between 65A-78A.

All-purpose board, can play well with this is a cowman, many are from the double cocking skateboard turned to the all-purpose board is called "all-purpose", because of its length than the double cocking long, but shorter than the dance board, you can play the flat flower dancing, downhill, you can play double cocking tricks, but the need for the power of the big. All-around board features: double cocking, the length of about 100cm, the wheel is also polyurethane material, but because you want to play tricks, the hardness is between 100A-102A.

Speed board, also known as road board, longboard in the limit board (down hill), speed is generally dependent on gravity to drive, that is to say, we must look for slopes to find the mountain to play, speed in the world there are professional tournaments, speed board speed downhill world record reached 130 kilometers per hour. Speed board features: the board is generally more hard, the material is maple, bamboo, fiberglass, carbon fiber, metal, etc., the length of the 80-150cm between the technology content is very high, the wheels are generally used in the selection of professional speed wheels, very gripping, and will be adjusted according to the hardness of the wheels of the different competition road surface.

Pictures of various longboard types are as follows:

Speedboard:

Danceboard:

Fish-shaped longboard:

Speed sinking board:

Finally, there is also a variant of a split skateboard similar to roller skates - the driftboard:

These are the types of longboards used by the industry. p>None of the above, are what I would call skateboards. If you want any of the above skateboards, the following can be left out!

Here's the deal:

The skateboard I'm talking about is a traditional extreme skateboard, double-cocked, four-wheeled, and constructed as shown in the picture below:

First of all, the shape is as shown in the picture above, and in order to have a real professional four-wheeled, double-cocked extreme skateboard (in order to differentiate between all the various "skateboards" mentioned above, I'd have to The safest way to get a real pro quad (to differentiate between the various "skateboards" above, I had to add the qualifier "pro quad") is to go to a local pro skate store, or to find a local skateboarder who has a good deal of experience in guiding you on what brand to choose, and how to mix and match it to your budget. For more information about skateboarding brands, please see my other article: Introduction to World Famous Skateboarding Brands - Knowledgeable Column

If you don't have a local skateboarding store or can't find a skateboarding group and have to buy online, then look for some professional skateboarding stores on Taobao. Remember the following three principles:

1. Don't search for the top-selling skateboard sellers on a treasure, because 99% of them are toy skateboards, the specific merchants are not named, and I can't ruin other people's business.

2. According to the brand search, in a treasure search bar search brand English, the results come out, compare the price, directly into the store is good, generally speaking are genuine, because the toy board manufacturers produce toy boards, due to industry regulation, do not dare to paste other brands for sale, can only be sold with their own brand, otherwise, once investigated, lose their homes.

3. Separate sales price: the board price is less than 200, the price of the bracket is less than 220, the price of the wheel is less than 100, the price of the bearing is less than 60. the whole board price is less than 450, try not to choose, it is likely to be fake, do not deny that some of them are manufacturers of tailgate goods, but the price of foreign brands will not be less than these prices.

The specific reasons are as follows:

Double warping board surface is generally 5-7 layers, material,

High-grade board surface, Canadian hard rock maple, the next level of U.S. maple, but also to join other fibers.

Mid-range board surface, Mexican maple, Chinese maple, northeastern maple. But now the domestic has banned logging, so it is still imported more.

Low-grade board surface, is very cheap board surface, toy board surface, now the toy board, the appearance of doing very professional, looks exactly the same as the professional board, with the wood is birch, a variety of plywood, heavy, just contact with the novice is not distinguishable.

Stand: some toy board stand is very obvious, a look out, the most convenient or look at the brand logo, why can not use the toy board stand, a good stand material is magnesium-aluminum alloy or titanium alloy, the production process is gravity casting molding, the cost is relatively high. While the toy bracket although the appearance looks the same, but the material is iron or zinc alloy, there are also used magnesium aluminum alloy, but the production process is die-casting, its inner structure, hardness and professional bracket are very different. In addition, the PU pads used on the bracket are also different.

Bearing: this is mainly reflected in the rotational speed, professional skateboard bearings are specially designed for skateboards, precision and internal structure, test methods and industrial bearings are different.

Sandpaper: the earliest toy board surface is sandblasted, can not play for a long time to fall off the light, and now the sandpaper has been homogenized, mainly embodied in the brand and pattern, a variety of colored sandpaper, transparent sandpaper, there is no difference.

Wheels: the difference is not very big, but the same hardness of a good wheel grip is greater.

Toy boards and professional boards may not be obvious in the usual difference, but once involved in doing tricks, such as Ollie down the steps, a variety of bar action, down after the board is easy to cause fracture, bracket scrapping, bearing steel beads popping up, easy to life-threatening, so in order to better enjoy the skateboarding, cherish life, please stay away from toy skateboards. Of course, if you just want to skate on a flat surface, whatever, when I did not say.

The first toy skateboards:

It was easy to tell the difference between a single and a double cock.

Today's toy skateboard appearance has been made the same as the professional skateboards, sales of professional skateboards are several times, naturally, the bigger the bigger, a variety of good-looking patterns, so that novices dazzled, heart. To promote the popularity of skateboarding has made a huge contribution, haha, my purpose in writing this article, not to expose anyone, not to praise anyone, just stand in an objective position, I hope that skateboarding novices do not fall into the pit, brighten up their own eyes, play to the real skateboarding.

The current toy skateboards, even if the appearance is made more real, the pattern is made more beautiful, but it is just in vain, there is no skateboarding soul!

But I hope that toy skateboard manufacturers will one day be able to make professional skateboards comparable to the big foreign brands, and make China's unique skateboard brand. Professional skateboard manufacturers, can update technology, reduce costs, one day the price of professional skateboards and toy boards to compete, so that more people play to the most real skateboards.

Finally, some of my favorite skateboard brands:

Board: Blind, Chocolate, World industries, element, Black market, Minilogo.

Bracket: Thunder, Venture, Destructo, Theeve, Independent. Theeve, Independent.

Wheels: Bones, Spitfire,Minilogo.

Bearings: Minilogo, Bones.

Interests are related, domestic brands are not recommended. I hope this article can show the way for newbies just entering the skateboarding pit.

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