Skate-board

We're talking about skateboarding parts and maintenance. We're going to talk a little bit about the necessary tools you need to have in your tool kit to bring with you to do minor...

As you can see in these clips I've actually got frontside carves to title in the shallow end pretty good. I have them pretty good at this point. i have backside kickturns to tile in th shallow...

We're talking about skateboarding parts and maintenance. I'm going to tell you a little bit about the anatomy of the truck, the king pin and the bushings. A truck is composed of an...

Putting in the bearing into the wheel. Putting in the bearing into the wheel is actually a very difficult thing to do. Sense the bearing is exactly the same size as the center of the wheel and the...

Now that I've told you about all the parts of a skateboard, now we are going to start to build it. Here I chose an active deck. Its a 7.75, and the first step to building a deck is to take off...

The next step, is applying your wheels to your trucks. Factory trucks normally come a little bit tighter, so you should have your skate tool handy, to start it off a little bit. Just undo your bolt....

The next step is putting your bearings into your wheels. Here I chose active bearings. These are Abeck 5 bearings. This is what I use. Pretty good price. There's 8 bearing in each bearing set,...

Now you're going to want to place the board at a ninety degree angle on a table. The reason for this is that you'll be able to grab from both sides like this. Now this is the easiest...

Mounting the truck to the board. Now, that you've got your grip tape on your board and you've chosen your trucks, and you have mounting hardware, that are the right size for the trucks...

A front side lipslide on a ledge. The front side lipslide gets it's name basically from ramp skating and when people would ollie up on the lip of the ramp and slide and come in. Now this is...