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So now that you've got your board completely put together and you've got your trucks and
your wheels adjusted to how you skate you may want to try to design your board and put
some stickers on it and kind of customize it the way that you like it. Now, one way
that I do this is I find stickers that match the color of my board because it ends up looking
good like that. So what you want to do is find a sticker and stick it on your board.
And one suggestion that I have is sometimes I stick it and I let part of it come off the
edge and I'll take my razor blade and I'll end up cutting a little angle off the end
and customizing the way that it looks. Now there's a secret sometimes to putting stickers
on a board. Sometimes stickers slide a little better than the paint that's on your board
so if you decide that you do a lot of nose slides and you want a little extra help nose
sliding sometimes you can put a sticker right on the nose or the tail right where you end
up sliding and this will help you. Now, no sticker is going to last forever so don't
get too attached to that sticker. And you can put it on your nose and you can use it
for sliding. Now the material that the stickers made out of won’t last for too long but
it definitely will help wear the board in slowly as you learn to do slides or do your
slides and tail slides and nose slides. And some people like to customize the top of their
board and cut things out with a razor blade in their grip tape or possibly you could get
paint pens or make a stencil and stencil on the top of your grip tape. Now remember the
only bad thing about that is if you spray too much paint on grip tape the paint fills
up in between the pieces of the grain of the grit of the grip tape and it makes it less
sticky by filling in those things. So you don't want to put too much layers onto grip
tape because it'll end up making it a little bit slicker. And these are just a few of the
ways that you can adjust the style of your board.