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There’s something about riding on a repaired skateboard that is inexplicable. It adds a new challenge, and brings a little fun back into the sport that has gotten so serious over the past few years.

If your skateboard has chipped, try saving the pieces and gluing them back on. If the pieces are nowhere to be found, or are completely unusable, then it’s time to get out the bondo. Bondo is great for repairing skateboard chips – you can just mix it then spread it over the cracks and chips and it will prevent them from getting worse. Any excess bondo can be sanded off and the board should ride just like new. It’s important to stop chips early on in the deck’s life, because if they are allowed to grow, eventually the whole tail or nose will wear down and the board will be irreparable.

If you’ve ever snapped a deck, you can fix it with some metal reinforcement sheets that they use for concrete. Have it cut to the size of the deck and then attach it to the deck using small screws, tape, epoxy, or whatever else you have. Make sure to line up the break on the deck as best you can so everything fits together properly. The metal is very light and will make boardslides easier, while keeping your graphic safe. If the board snaps again, just do the repair with a new sheet of metal.

Flatspots on wheels can be repaired without too much hassle. Take an electric drill and put the wheel on the end of it so that it will spin. You may have to wedge some cloth in between the wheel and the drill so that the wheel doesn’t get damaged. When you have the wheel on the end, turn on the drill and get the wheel spinning then place it on some sandpaper. This will grind the wheel down evenly and get rid of any flatspots. Try to keep even pressure on the wheel so that you don’t make them oblong.

If your bearings are slow, take them out of the wheel and remove the bearing shield. Clean them using some bearing cleaner, then add some bearing grease to them and they should ride like new. Some bearings just need to be replaced, but most of them can be cleaned and will work perfectly.

Fixing Trucks

If your trucks are worn down, try epoxying a small piece of rebar or pipe to them. This will keep the trucks from wearing down too far, and you should be able to grind with ease, depending on what you use for the repair.

If you lose an axle, or if the axle gets stripped, you’re basically out of luck. You can try epoxying the axle back into place, but there is really a lot of pressure on that part of your skateboard.

Conclusion

These repairs are really only temporary, so if you try any of them don’t expect them to last a lifetime. Be safe when working with power tools and high strength glues; you wouldn’t want to get hurt. The best thing to do if your skateboard really needs replacing is to buy yourself a few blank skateboard decks. These are cheaper than normal decks and last just as long. A blank skateboard deck is great for the money.

Firstly before doing this you will need the following tools; a round file, a Stanley razor blade and a Allen key (to pierce holes for the truck bolts). If you are under 18 please get adult supervision whilst doing this as you could cut yourself either on the grip or with the blade.

Ok so you have your grip tape and your board first off measure up the board with the grip and cut off any excess grip tape that over lays the end of your board and make sure that it is aligned straight. then you want to start peeling the grip slowly and pushing it against the skateboard making sure that you create no air bubbles, tapping it with your hand all the way along and making sure that it still stays straight when applying it. Once this is complete you should be left with a board that is gripped to ensure that you did not leave any air bubbles lay the backing sheet of the grip tape on top of your gripped skateboard and rub firmly with your hands to check and push out any left over air bubbles.

You will now need to take the round file and run it around the edge of your board to create a guideline for the razor blade I find doing this quickly but firmly with the file gives the best result. You will then need to take the Stanley razor blade and cut around the board at a slight inward and following the guideline you have created do the sides first and cut out the grip tape leaving the nose and tail until last as these can be the most difficult areas to cut around as they are round. Once this is done you will need to smoothly follow the round edge of the nose and tail, once this is complete you can grab the file again and run it around the edge to stop the grip tape from back peeling in the future. To stop you wearing down your shoes too fast when dealing with new grip, rub some waste grip tape onto the grip on your board lightly to life of the roughest parts of your grip tape.

Your board is now ready to set up and ride.

If you are new to skateboarding, these are probably the first 10 skateboard tricks you will want to try to learn. They are also probably the easiest ten skateboard tricks also, but be forewarned, some of them can still be quite difficult and frustrating as you are first learning them.

Manual
Manuals are when you push down on the tail of the board and roll on only the back wheels, never touching the front wheels or the tail to the ground. Manuals are arguably the easiest trick in skateboarding, although keeping a manual going for extended lengths of time, or landing a trick in manual can be quite difficult.

Ollie
The ollie is another one of the most basic tricks and usually one of the first a skater learns, and since most fltland skateboard tricks, such as kickflips, heelflips, and tre-flips, all begin with an ollie, learning to ollie is a necessity before attempting most other tricks.

Ollie 180
An Ollie 180 is just what it sounds like. It is when you ollie into the air and rotate 180 degrees (haklf turn in the air and land backwards and roll off. Once a regular ollie is mastered, the 180 version is not toio much more difficult.

Kickflip
As soon as you have mastered the ollie and are prepared to take it to the next level, the kickflip is probably the best choice for the next trick to learn. First learning kickflips can be about as frustrating as skateboarding can get, but it has been said that once you learn the kickflip, learning other tricks becomes easier. It is an ollie followed by a flick of the toe, sending the board in a backward spinning motion like a drill.

Boardslide
A boardslide is when you ollie onto an obstacle and slide on it, with the bottom part of the board between the trucks sliding on the obstacle.

Boneless
Bonelesses are another pretty easy trick to learn, and another good selection for one of the first ones to learn. It’s a bit of an old school trick, as tricks not involving ollies become less popular. The good news is that the boneless is one of the few tricks you can learn even if you don’t know how to ollie. To do a boneless, you simply grab your board with one hand and place one foot on the ground, jumping up in the air with your other foot on the board.

Pop Shuvit
A Shuvit is another trick you can learn without knowing how to ollie. You just jump up off your board and push the board behind you with your back foot, sending it into a spin like a helicopter propeller. Then you land on it and roll away. If you know how to ollie, it is a way better looking trick if you ollie first and then do this. Then it is a pop shuvit.

Nollie
A nollie is the same as an ollie except you kick down on the nose with your front foot instead of kicking the tail with the back.

Impossible
An impossible is when you ollie into the air, scooping the tail of the board down and over into a spinning motion like the hands of a clock, before landing it.

No Comply
A no comply is another old school trick, kind of like a cross between an ollie and a boneless. You basically plant your front foot on the ground and ollie with the other foot, and land with both feet on the board. You can also do many other tricks with a no comply, like a no comply impossible, for instance.

Well, now you have your mission. These are arguably the 10 easiest skateboard tricks for beginners to learn. Now go out and conquer them!

Have you ever wondered how dangerous riding a complete skateboard really is? Can a child or an adult really get hurt bad or even killed doing skateboard tricks on skateboards? Does a skater have a future in riding a skateboard after getting hurt seriously bad? These are some of the questions that will be answered in this article about the true dangers of riding skateboards and if skateboarding really is as dangerous has many parents and media make it out to be?

Is riding a complete skateboard that dangerous? Complete skateboards are skateboard decks with wheels and any thing that a person must be on or in with wheels is bound to be dangerous. Of course riding one can be dangerous but so can any sport out there. It seems many parents do not like the thought of there child riding a skateboard because they think that they will get hurt bad. Maybe they saw another news story about a child getting serious injuries doing tricks on their skateboard. Back in 2006 there was about 26000 children, 15 years and younger, that had been admitted into an emergency room due to injuries from skateboards. When you think about it, that is a high number. Studies show that out of 100 hospitals, they reported the top four sports when it comes to injuries and emergency room visits. Which sport do you think was number one in the study? I bet a lot of you parents reading this article are thinking skateboards are number one on the list for sure.

Check out these numbers from the study.

o Bicycles is number one at 239,795 admissions into the hospitals
o Football is number two at 220,877 admissions
o Baseball is number three at 84,878 admissions
o Skateboards is number four at 65,130 admissions

Shocking information if you ask me. It is important to realize that parents and the media are always focusing on the negative of skateboards. When someone gets hurt, riding their skateboard they make it seem like the sport is so bad. On the other hand, they do not tell you about all of the many skaters who do not get hurt.

Does a skater ever get on a skateboard again after getting seriously hurt? Indeed some skateboarders never get to skate again due to permanent injuries. How about a skater named Eric who was riding his complete skateboard and crashed. He had gotten a concussion, fractures to his skull, bruises to his brain, and was in a comma for 2 weeks. He did survive with no brain damage, but he never got on a skateboard again. Maybe Eric would be skateboarding today if he had known how to tuck and roll. It is also important to realize that many skaters who are injured permanently were most likely not wearing all of the protective gear that they should have been wearing. Wearing a skateboard helmet, wrist, elbow, and knee pads really do help reduce the chance of getting major injuries riding or doing skateboard tricks on a complete skateboard. The sport of riding skateboards is the same as any sport out there. It can be dangerous. In fact the idea of a sport being dangerous all boils down to how hard a player pushes himself to his max potential.

We have learned that there are studies out there that prove that riding complete skateboards are not as dangerous as people think they are. Sure, there are kids or adults who get seriously hurt and never ride a skateboard again. However, I believe if they were wearing all of the proper safety equipment they would still be riding today. We have proof that parents and the media over exaggerate how dangerous a skateboard really is. Parents must realize that if you want your kid to be safe then when you buy them their first complete skateboard, or parts to fix their old one, you should take it upon yourself to make sure they have the proper skateboard helmet, wrist guards, knee and elbow pads. Sit down with your child and explain the importance of safety. Go on the internet and find out how to do the tuck and roll properly and show them how to do it. If parents got involved with their child and the sport of skateboarding as much as they do in the sport of football, or baseball this sport would be a lot bigger than it already is and probably a lot safer to.

Mojo skate rails are strong, reliable, safe and don’t let riders down. With a wide range of different rails everyone wants to grind on these rails. As Mojo manufactures typical grinding rails, ramps, quarter pipes, fun boxes and several other pieces of skateboarding equipment, they are the go-to company for anyone who wants to make their own home skate park.

One of their most notable products is the Mojo Skate Bench. This fantastic obstacle is perfect for performing nose and tail slides as well as K-grinds, as it gives users the option to adjust the height both quickly and easily. As well as skateboarding, the bench can be used by BMX riders, snowboarders and inline skaters alike. It’s shaped like many snowboard park obstacles, so the bench keeps boarders who shred in both summer and winter happy.

There are two varieties of the traditional Mojo rails: square and rounded. The square grinding rail is ideal for practice, since the flat surface helps a skateboarder balance as they grind it. The rounded rail is more ideally suited to a more advanced skateboarder as it allows for a faster grind. Either of these however would make a great gift for any budding skater at the appropriate ability level. No one should ever try to exceed their own level, but with the different options available, with Mojo it’s never too hard to find something that fits.

As well as these examples, there are also split Mojo skate rails available. The split rail is designed for the lighter rider under 130 lbs. The ends are rounded, so that the mount and dismount of a grind isn’t as hard as it would be with a straighter grind rail. This feature makes it a better choice for those who are consider themselves closer to the beginners’ end of the spectrum. The split design can also be disassembled for easy shipping and storage and at the time effortlessly moved around in a car.

Mojo skate rails would be a welcome addition to any home skate park, and their sheer versatility allows them to be used in numerous ways by athletes of all abilities.

Are you looking for a complete beginner guide to skateboarding? Then look no further. Before you can get started, you must know 7 powerful transportation tricks, and the equipment you need.

You should start off by purchasing a beginner skateboard. This board can be a small investment (roughly $30-65). Professional board can be in the $100-140 range. As a beginner, you need to focus mostly on getting high quality bearings and wheels. You can always upgrade parts as you progress.

The bearings are what helps the wheels roll. A beginner wants a board that rolls easily. To understand the quality of the bearings, you must do a test. Take your hand and spin the wheel. The wheel should keep spinning more than 4 seconds. If it does, the bearings pass the speed test.

Next, let’s look at clothing and footwear. It is recommended that you wear jean pants to protect your legs from scraps. Shorts may bee comfortable with knee pads, but don’t protect your lower legs.

You can use any type of shoes to skateboard in. However, the best footwear are shoes made specifically for skateboarding. Skate shoes are made to be resist the abuse of the grip tape and also provide cushioning and support.

Before you get started, consider investing in some elbow, knee pads, and wrist guards. A package of all of these can be found for as little as ($10-15). Also you need to protect you head with a skateboard-style helmet ($15-29).

7 Powerful Skateboard Techniques- How to Skateboard For Beginners

Let’s go ride! The first thing a beginner must learn is pushing. Place your front foot on the board first. Your front foot will be positioned at a 45 degree angle on the front of the board. The best positioning is to cover three out of the four top bolts.

With your back foot, place it in front of your back two wheels. Keep your weight centered over your front foot. You should align your front shoulder with your front foot. This will help you stay on the board. With your back foot, push off of the ground.

After pushing off of the ground, place your back foot over the back four bolts. This will keep your balance wide and body centered. Be sure to look straight ahead in the direction that you are going.

When the board starts slowing down, take another push forward.

Turning – How to Skateboard For Beginners

Once you have mastered the pushing on the board, it’s time to learn how to turn. Before starting turning, you must learn how to pick the front two wheels off of the ground. Place your foot on to the tail and press down while lifting up with the front foot.

After you have mastered picking the front two wheels up, you should try turning. While the wheels are elevated, bring the front foot either forwards or backwards. It helps to look in the direction you are turning. If you are turning backwards, look over your shoulder and put your weight into your heel. If you are turning forwards, put your weight into your toes and look forward.

Your First Trick – How to Skateboard For Beginners

Ready to learn a trick? Turn you skateboard upside down. Place it on the ground. Put the toes of both of your feet underneath the board by 1 inch.

Now, jump straight up 8-10 inches and slightly forward. The board will flip up onto it’s wheels and you will land on it! Congratulations.

Skateboards are increasingly popular among people in recent years. It is very good for entertainment. More and more people like it and try to learn how to skate. It is especial welcomed by young people. But do you know why can the skates run smoothly on the ground? What keep the wheels turning freely? The answer is the bearing. It is one of the crucial parts of skate wheels. Besides, it helps to create a smooth comfortable ride.

Individual bearings contain small balls made of steel or ceramic, housed in a case called a raceway, with each wheel having two bearings. Since skate wheel bearings are so important to the skateboard, its maintenance should become your concerns.

Lubrication is obviously one of the good maintenance methods. It is basic skateboard maintenance that you should know. It can extend the service life of your skateboard. Therefore, if your skateboard is riding rough and your wheels seem to be sticking, it is time for you to lubricate it. And you can refer to some instructions.

At first, you may have to remove the skateboard wheels by inserting the skate tool into the pocket of the wheel and turn counterclockwise, exerting firm pressure until the wheel comes loose. Remove any bearing shields and spacers from the wheels.

After that, you should remove the bearings from the wheels, and slide each free wheel back onto the axel. Use the skate tool to hook the axel and press down firmly so that the bearing comes free. Thirdly, you may have to place the bearings into a container filled with mineral oil, and allow them to soak for two to three hours. Then you can scrub them with an old toothbrush to get rid of all the built up gunge after taking them out. When bearing products are thoroughly cleaned, you have to place a small amount of skate wheel lubricant into the middle of your palm and drop the ball bearings into it. Roll the bearings around your hand until they are well coated.

In addition to the lubrication, the bearing replacement is also a routine maintenance method. Of course, if you want to do this by yourself, there are also many steps for you to refer to. Main instructions are as follows.

You should use the skate tool or Allen wrench to remove the axle from the wheel, and remove the wheel from the frame of the skate. Remove the old bearings with a skate tool. Then you should place the new bearing in one side of the wheel. Push it in place as far as it will go, turn the wheel over, replace any spacer that was originally on the wheel and insert the bearing on the other side. The last step you should do is that you may have to place the wheel back in the frame and insert the axle through the wheel.

Skateboard pads are useful and different. Some of them make the equipment comfortable and safer for the user. Others protect the user’s body from scratches, bruises and other injuries. When you talk of shock pads and risers, you are referring to flat pads mounted between the deck and the truck of a skateboard. These two items serve the same purpose. A riser is usually made of plastic while the shock pad is made of a rubber-like material.

First, the two can avoid a situation where the wheel encounters the bottom of the board when a skater is turning. This is dangerous and unsafe because the skateboard, which is rolling at a very high speed, would stop abruptly. Imagine the kind of danger such an incident would put the skater in. When a person is sliding the board, its trucks endure a terrible strain, which in turn, affects the deck.

Thus, you would start noticing ugly cracks at the point where the deck and the trucks encounter each other. However, if you buy some shock and riser pads, this problem cannot arise. The only problem with riser padding is that it increases the height of the skating board. For some skaters, that kind of board would be very uncomfortable to ride. Besides, with a taller skateboard, one cannot do some of the challenging tricks and moves available now.

The other types of skateboard pads are for the wearer. He or she must wear them to reduce serious injuries in case of a fall. For instance, a skater should wear some kneepads. They usually have some hard plastic caps and are made of a strong material, such as canvas. Additionally, these kneepads have some Velcro straps for fastening them in place. What is more, the pads have different sizes depending upon the size of the wearer.

The small, medium and large styles are available on sale on the Internet. They can fit both big and small skaters and help them glide safely. These padded accessories are very cheap compared to the skateboard helmets. Their price range is between seven and thirty dollars, on average. Hence, there is no point in buying useless quality kneepads when you have exposure to such a wide range of products.

Get some elbow pads too to ensure even more safety when gliding down the street or road. They have similar characteristics to the kneepads, including the price range. For total body comfort and safety, you can get crash padded under shorts and pants made of rubbery material. They will keep your entire bottoms safe if you suddenly crash and fall. These wonderfully constructed items are more expensive than the above explained padded accessories.

Their price range is from one hundred dollars and above. They are very essential for both adults and kids that skate often for sports training or leisure. The easiest way to have the best skateboard pads is searching the Internet. They are all over the place and you will even come across some product reviews. The only thing you have to do is reading the reviews and other web resources that would be useful to you.

Learning how to skateboard for beginners can be very challenging and will eventually discourage most people from continuing their training. As difficult as it may seem however, every single pro skater that you see on television flying through the air like they have wings and doing some ridiculous tricks like they were born to skateboard, has been through their fair share of falls and scrapes.

What those people have is determination and they made their mind up that no matter how many times they fall, they were going to get right back up. Well today I’m going to share 3 very important tips that everyone that wants to learn how to skateboard should know.

Tip #1
The first thing you should do before even getting on a skateboard is buy yourself a good pair of skateboarding shoes. You may think that you can just overlook this and skate in regular shoes but skateboarding shoes are specially designed with broad flat bottoms that help you get better grip on the board. In addition, they are usually well padded and reinforced in areas that are likely to be quickly worn when skateboarding.

Tip #2
Another very important part of your skateboarding attire is a good helmet. You may think that you look goofy and may see that many skaters don’t wear helmets but falling of a skateboard at some time or another is inevitable for beginners so it only makes sense to protect the most important part of your body. Concussions are no fun and there is also permanent damage that can be done with the right fall and no helmet.

Tip #3
Other protective gear such as wrist pads, elbow pads and knee pads are not only protective but can also speed up the learning process. You may think that there is no permanent damage that can be done with out those protective guards but one thing to consider is that when you have those guards on, you wont be terrified of falling so you’ll advance much faster with your skateboarding progress.

These tips are a good starting point for anyone that is considering learning how to skateboard. If you would like more detailed tutorials on learning how to skateboard for beginners, click the link below.

Hello my fellow skateboarding fans. Today I will be going over 3 important tips you must know if you would like to learn how to do an Ollie on a skateboard. An Ollie is by far the most important trick you’ll learn as it’s the basis for most other tricks on the skateboard.

When you initially start learning how to ride a skateboard, it almost seems impossible to learn any tricks. I’m sure you have probably wondered if people like Tony Hawk and other pro skateboarders are even human. They just make it look so easy on TV. Well, keep in mind that even if those pro skateboarders are not human, they still had to start somewhere, just like you.

Now the first thing I always tell my students is that proper protective gear is essential in learning how to do a Ollie, or any other skateboarding tricks. You might be thinking that all this gear makes you look nerdy but keep this in mind. When you have all this gear on, you wont be afraid to take a fall here and there because you know u wont be leaving a piece of your knee or elbow skin on the floor. This gives you a lot more confidence to go all out and get the hang of these tricks much faster.

Another important part of your gear is a proper pair of skateboarding shoes. You might think some of these don’t look cool either but they also play a huge part in your learning process. These shoes that are designed specifically for skateboarding have extra padding and are reinforced in areas that get extra wear and tear during skateboarding. They also have broader soles that make balancing much easier and add extra grip to the skateboard.

One final thing to keep in mind when learning how to do an Ollie is not to worry too much about the height at first. Once you have the procedure down, increasing the amount of air you get will be a breeze. Focus for now on getting the board off the ground. Once you can do that, all you have to do is start bringing your knees closer to your chest when in mid air.

If you follow these simple tips, you’ll be popping Ollies in no time. Don’t be in a rush just take your time and make it happen naturally. You’re going to be surprised at how fast you’re going to know how to do an Ollie on a skateboard with ease.