When choosing a skateboard, most people focus on the size, length, traction, and overall design. While these are all important factors, other details are often overlooked, such as the skateboard wheels. Wheels don’t just keep your board rolling — they are also responsible for keeping you on your feet as you tackle different terrains.

Most skateboard wheels are made of polyurethane, a type of hard rubber. They are designed to withstand high friction and contact with rough surfaces, such as dirt and concrete. They come in different sizes and hardness levels, and choosing the right wheel can greatly improve your performance.

Durometer

Wheel hardness is measured in the durometer A scale, from 75a to 99a. You may see skateboards marked 100a or higher, but don’t be fooled – the A scale only goes up to 99. Street skateboard wheels are usually very hard, which allows them to slow down quickly and store energy as you move along. This makes it suitable for tricks and jumps. The same is true with vert wheels, which are mostly used on ramps, uphill, and upward curves. Softer wheels provide better maneuvering and speed control, making them ideal for slalom racing and longboards.

Size matters

Size is also an important factor when choosing skateboard wheels. As a rule of thumb, your wheels should be appropriate for your body size. For teens and children, the recommended wheel size is 52 to 55 mm. The size for adults should be 56 to 60 mm. The smallest wheels are usually the street wheel type,which measure from 48 to 55 mm. Vert and slalom skateboard wheels range from 56 to 75 mm.

Buying tips Picky Guide has a complete guide to skateboard wheels. Picky Guide is one of the fastest growing online magazines giving free consumer advice and product information. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Johan_Friedman

What Skateboard Protective Gear Do I Need?

1. A Good Quality Skateboard Helmet

The consequences of a serious head injury make skateboard helmet safety your first priority. Skateboarders fall a lot, especially as you learn new moves and tricks. Depending upon your speed, distance to the ground, ground hardness (a wooden ramp vs. a concrete barrier), and other factors, you can suffer a serious head injury.

Important skateboard protective gear notice: there is currently no US law that requires manufacturers to meet a specific safety standard for a skateboard helmet. The ASTM certification is voluntary, not mandatory. So, a skateboard helmet may or may not carry the ASTM certification.

If you are in the market for a skateboard helmet, look for these features:

• Buy a helmet from a reputable manufacturer, such as Bell, ProTec, SixSixOne or Giro. The established companies have the resources to design and warrant their skate helmets.
• Check to see if the helmet is ASTM F-1492 certified, as proven by an ASTM certification sticker on the inside of the helmet. Although not required, this is nice to have.

For additional protection, you may want to look for a helmet that is dual certified to both the ASTM F-1492 skateboard and the CPSC bicycle standards.Don’t mess with skateboard helmet safety. Get yourself a good quality skateboard helmet. Make sure it fits well, feels good, and looks good. Then, WEAR IT!

2. Skateboard Knee Pads / Skateboard Elbow Pads

A good pair of skateboard knee pads and skateboard elbow pads will help absorb impacts and prevent nasty abrasions from sliding on rough surfaces. Skate Pads Combo Packs are an inexpensive way to outfit yourself with knee and skateboard elbow pads, and several also include skate wrist guards.

3. Skate Wrist Guards

Skateboard injury statistics show that wrist injuries are the most common skateboarding injury. When you fall, your natural reaction is to reach for the ground. This places large impact forces on your wrists and causes lots of injuries.

Good quality skate wrist guards will help prevent a wrist injury. The two basic types are:

• Skate wrist guards with no fingers
• Skateboard gloves with integrated wrist guards

Both types have splints underneath the leather that absorb the impact and reduce the chance of a wrist injury.4. A Pair of Padded Skate Shorts

Padded skate shorts help protect your butt, tailbone, hips, and thighs from impact and abrasions. Padded skate shorts are very popular with our customers, as they make falling much less painful and reduce soreness. Trust us, you’ll really appreciate padded skate shorts after a day on the street or at the skate park! Plus, you can be covert and hide them under your shorts, so no one will know…

5. Skateboard Ankle and Shin Guards

If the plan is to ride hard at the park near rails, structures, or other inflexible objects, consider some ankle and shin guards to prevent big black and blue spots from appearing all around your lower legs.

This checklist will help you select the right skate pads and skateboard protective gear. Before you drop in…get protected!

Jim Bartlett is the president of XSportsProtective, a leading online retailer and expert on skateboard protective gear, including skateboard helmets, such as Bell, Giro, SixSixOne and ProTec skateboard helmets; skate pads, skate wrist guards and much more. Find out more at http://www.XSportsProtective.com. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jim_Bartlett

The world keeps coming up with new ways of entertainment and enjoyment. The skateboard is one of the more recent additions to the fascination of the youth of the 21st Century. Most adolescents fall in love with a skateboard after watching the pros in action. The skateboarding is indeed very attractive to all young people because it is daring, it is creative and it definitely is full of action.

As soon as you find yourself in love with this new sport, you would definitely look forward to buy a skateboard for yourself. Most likely you would have a few friends along with you who would be able to guide you in how to buy a skateboard. In case you do not, there following few lines would be helpful since you would find here a mini guide of sorts:

1. Be ready for the cost - a skateboard - a quality skateboard - does not come cheap; and remember, cheap skateboard have no quality. Hence, if you want to have a good head start in this sport, be ready to loosen your purse strings and pay what it takes to get a good quality skateboard. You should expect it to cost something around US $100 for a decent board.

2. Choosing your deck the best choice here would be one without any logos or graphics, as these are usually coming from designer labels and accordingly the cost would be multiplied accordingly. As it is the designs would fade away pretty soon owing to the fact that a decent amount of skateboarding would scratch it off soon enough. You should buy 7 ply or 9 ply deck for best results (this means that there are 7 or 9 layers of ply respectively) and pay close attention to its shape. A good skateboard should be decently curved in the kicktails.

3. Pay Attention to the Trucks - this is a very important trait for the beginners. Pay close attention to the trucks. If these are not f good quality your skateboard would go for a toss the first time you really try something serious. Beware of the cheap imitation of skateboards. Always buy from reputed retail outlets after closely verifying the details.

4. The Importance of Bearings and Wheels - the bearing are very important in the way you would be able to master your skateboard. The speed of your skateboard is measured by a specific value - called the ABEC value. This lowest measurement here is the AA value - which indicates that the skateboard can hardly pull itself along. The minimum best would be ABEC 3 and it goes on with 5, 7 and 9. For a beginner the best would be to start with ABEC 3 (or maximum 5). This would ensure that the skateboard is free enough for you to practice some early tricks, while it would slow enough not to literally slip off from under your feet.

5. New Vs Used skateboards - though a new skateboard would be the best choice for everyone, sometimes it would be good if you buy one from a pro. The used and -broken-in - skateboard would not only be available at a bargain price, but also be excellent for you to practice on.

Dean Novosat owns and operates http://www.1skates.com Skateboard Ger free reviews, opinions, and reports on all things skateboard! Shoes, Decks, Wheels, and more on http://www.1skates.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dean_Novosat

Doing skateboard tricks is really awesome and gives you an amazing adrenalin rush.  The Ollie is the first trick that you will need to learn if you are new to skateboarding as this is the most used trick and is what many of the other tricks are based on.

There is a lot of information on the internet about skateboarding and tricks including the Ollie but I have some tips that will make it easier to do.Here are my tips on how you can perform the ‘Ollie’ just like the pro’s.To perform the Ollie have your back foot on the tail of the board.  Your front foot will need to be around about the middle of the board and you will need to have your knees slightly bent.When you first start out learning this trick just take it slow and don’t go too fast on your board.  There is nothing worse than trying to do a trick for the first time and going too fast and stacking it on the concrete.A big tip to make the Ollie easier is to keep down low, the lower that you are bent down the more air you will get.  You will perform much better if your hands are reasonably low and not too far off the ground.When you are ready then slam your back foot on the tail of the board so that you will jump high into the air.  You really need to hit the board as hard as you can with that back foot so that your board will follow when you jump into the air.It is important to keep your balance so try to remain centred on the board for balance and keep your knees in the bent position to absorb the landing.With anything the more you practise the better you will get so if you don’t succeed straight away don’t give up just keep on practising.  Practise and remember these skateboard Ollie tips and you will be the envy of your friends in no time.  Corey Polomka loves skateboarding and is a legend at skateboard tricks. Visit his site at Coreys Cool Club! to grab a free report called “How To Land Flawless 360 Flips”.

I have been playing Tony Hawks. On it the skateboarders throw their skateboards. I like wee man the best, he is really cool. Tony hawks and wee man are the fastest.  There is a bull and you can let it go and it chases the joker and it knocks the building down.  You can grab on to the bulls tail and go on a boat. One of my favourite bits is that you can throw tomatoes and apples at people.  This is really fun. I like doing the tricks that you can do like ollies and flip tricks.  Grind tricks are really cool and I am pretty good at them.  My Mum can’t do them and when she’s playing she just falls and hits her head (well her character does), she’s not very good at it and it’s heaps funny watching. One of my real favourite bits probably even more than throwing tomatoes is the tantrums.  There is a meter that comes up and shows your level of frustration and if you keep pressing the Y button you will build up into a tantrum.  When you have a tantrum you can earn a ‘freak out’ bonus score and you can use that to start your next combo.   It’s pretty funny and the higher the meter is the crazier your tantrum will be and the bigger bonus score you get so it’s cool just to go ‘crazy’. 

One of the really good things about Tony Hawks Underground 2 is the ‘create-a-mode’ section where you can create your own character to sake within any of the modes.  You can also create a park, a graphic, create goals and tricks.  It’s pretty cool creating your own character and then using it in the game.

Ok, seeya later I’m going back to play Tony Hawks.
Corey

  

My Mum bought the Blogging To The Bank ebook for me and told me to sit down and read it. She has been working in Internet Marketing for a long time and is a bit of an expert and she told me that if I have a blog and I’m not making money from it then I’m pretty silly. There are heaps of people that do blogging just for the fun of blogging and they have no idea that you can actually make a lot of money with your blog.So I sat down and read this Blogging To The Bank and I really liked it.  It explained to me how I can best monetize my blog and I don’t have to be an expert at Internet Marketing to do so.I, and many of my friends, have blogs just to share our thoughts, we use them as a kind of online diary that we allow other people to read.  Rob Benwell, the writer of this ebook, has made quite a bit of money through his blogs and is now sharing how he does it.  Although you don’t need to be an expert in internet marketing to monetize your blog, Blogging to the bank is still a good ebook for internet marketers to read as it will possibly give you some techniques that you may not be aware of.This ebook gives you a plan to work with, which many ebooks don’t and I think that is what makes this one so good.  You get good step by step instructions to follow and if you follow them you will be sure to make some good money with your blog.  Even if you are new to blogging you will be able to see some profits coming through very quickly.Not only does Blogging To The Bank give you step by step instructions it also tells you how to get traffic to your blog using free methods and shows you case studies of blogs that are making a lot of money every single month.

So, in my opinion is Blogging To The Bank worth buying?  Definitely, I am glad my Mum made me read it as I now have a blog and although I haven’t had it long I am making money from it already.

So if you want to learn how to make money with your blog CLICK HERE - it’s so easy a child can do it!

Chill
Corey

I found this site the other day and it’s cool.  You can download screensavers free and they are really cool.  They are animated and I really like the animal ones.  There are heaps to choose from and if you want you can download more than one and change them.

There is  really cool tiger one and that one is my favourite.  The tiger moves and it almost makes you feel like you are in the jungle.  Mum used to have just boring squiggly lines moving around the screen but now I’ve put these screensavers on and she loves them.

The are free to download too which is pretty cool.  If you want to check the website out you can CLICK HERE and check out all the themes, there are oceans and waterfalls and stuff too.

Seeya
Corey

If you love skateboarding then you would probably love to be able to do some of the tricks that the pro’s do.  Here is one of my favourite tricks the 360 Flip:

This trick is sure to impress your friends once you get the hang of it.

Ok, so when you slam your back foot on the board, you know just like when you do an Ollie, hit it extra hard so that you can flip it. At the same time you need to allow your front foot to slide off the board and use your toes to flip it that way as well.

It is easy to stuff up and fall so be really careful when you’re doing this trick especially when you are just learning it.  Once you get the hang of the flip then you need to learn to catch the board with your feet and center it again.

With any skateboard trick do not forget to bend your knees because it will help you absorb the shock of the landing and lessen your chance of any injury.  It might be easier to learn your tricks while your board is stationary to begin with. It can help at first too to have your board on grass or a surface that will prevent it from rolling while you are learning the trick.  Then once you get the hang of it you can try it while the board is moving.

Keep practising the 360 and you will soon be mastering it with no trouble at all.

To find out more about skateboarding tricks CLICK HERE to get a free report called “How To Land Flawless 360 Flips”.

Seeya
Corey

My name is Corey and this is my COOL CLUB Blog.

My brother Ben has his own blog and he is making lots of money just by blogging, so I thought that I would start my own blog. 

I like skateboarding and I really like playing Tony Hawks games on Gamecube and Playstation.  I’m saving up to buy the Tony Hawks game for Nintendo DS.

My family and I have just been travelling around Australia for six months which was pretty cool just travelling for all that time.  We went to Ayers Tock, Alice Springs, Darwin, Cairns, Goldcoast and we had Xmas at the Goldcoast.  We went to Dreamworld, Movie world, wet’n'wild world, seaworld and Australia Zoo, my favourite was Movie World.

Now that we are home we are getting ready to go back to school which starts next week.  It will be good to see all my friends again that I haven’t seen for six months.

I hope you will visit my blog heaps.

Seeya
Corey