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How To Maintain Your Skateboard

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How To Maintain Your Skateboard

How To Maintain Your Skateboard

You can break your skateboard when you use it carelessly. Eventhough it had made  more durable, you can’t do anything you want with them. Because there is a rule to use it. How you do with your skateboard may give an influence to your skateboard life.

Here there are the tips you can do to make your skateboard life longer.

Skateboard Wheels. Your skateboard wheels may receive the beating everytime you perform power sliding. Perform Powerslides make you looks cool but it will give an effect to your skateboard wheels. Especially if you perform on the rough terrains make it losing its shape and grip. Then sooner or later you may need to replace it with the new one.

Skateboard Decks. When you use your shoes soles or the tail of your board, it could be good, unless you excessive heel brake. It can break your skateboard decks. Just put a guard under the kicktail to stop using the heel brake. It can reduce the grind of your skateboard deck, or you may try to use a plastic cap. But you had accepted that it will decrease your ability when doing a skateboard trick.

Another tip to make your skateboard deck life longer is you should not to land with your feet in the middle of the deck. Because it can break the decks in become a half. Keep step above the deck when you land and let the skateboard trucks absorb your weight.

As we know, all skateboarders want to make an improvement in their skateboard tricks. But of course, it will make a scratching in the bottom of the decks. Then your skateboard deck can bended not in your desire. For instance, when you make truckstand spin, truckstand hops, pogo hops, and pogo spin can make your tail becomes a ruin.

Skateboard Bearings and Skateboard Wheels. Periodically cleansing your skateboard bearings and wheels can make it life longer and rolling easily. If you’re not do this, feel free to buy the new one.

That’s all the tips that can make your skateboard extent its life. It’s depend on your decision, indeed.

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  1. July 17th, 2009 at 08:10 | #1

    Good write up, people always complain about having to buy new gear so why not take care of it?

  1. July 21st, 2009 at 17:05 | #1
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