How to Choose a Skateboard
The top 3 factors for choosing a skateboard deck is age, size and experience. Ages 6-10 can go with mini-sized or full-sized skateboard completes. Blind, Tony Hawk Birdhouse, Enjoi White Panda, World Industry, Flip, Speed Demons, Toy Machine and now the 3 most popular skate decks because of MTV reality shows are pro-skaters Ryan Sheckler Plan B, Bam Margera Element and Rob Dyrdek with “Big” Alien Workshop. Mini-size is 7.0 and full decks are 7.5.
Ages 10-15 tend to like skateboard companies and their sponsored pro-skaters such as Darkstar, Shaun White Birdhouse, Chocolate, Eric Koston Girl, Habitat, Shorty’s, Zoo York, Element, Geoff Rowley Flip, Alien Workshop and Zoo York. Skate deck size is 7.5.
Ages 16 and up select a larger deck 7.75 to 8.0 because of their shoe size 11+ and choose pro-skaters Jamie Thomas Zero, Rodney Mullen Almost, Andrew Reynolds Baker, Stevie Williams DGK, Jereme Rogers Plan B, Mystery and Black Label.
You can build your own custom deck with separate skateboard equipment parts such as trucks, wheels, bearings, grip tape and hardware. Popular name brand trucks are royal, venture, independent (indy), silver, grind king, destructo, element, krux, tensor and thunder. Wheels are classified by size. Beginners like larger wheels 53-54 mm with Abec 3 bearings. More experience skaters like wheel sizes 50-52 mm with Abec 5-7 bearings or top of the line Bones Swiss ceramics. Grip tape comes in colors - red, black, camo, pink, clear, striped or blue with stenciled or dye-cut logos. Hardware is universal, either phillips head or flat 1 inch bolt with nut.
EVILEDS provides in-house logo slayer trucks, skull wheels, bat grip tape and abec 7 bearings. Check out our website evileds.com or call us at (410) 465-3009
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