This guide explains every part of a skateboard and helps you choose which sizes and styles to best suit your needs.įrom cheap skateboards to high end, custom complete skateboard decks, we have boards for riders of every skill level and tax bracket - we get it, we put skateboarding before everything else first. Here, you’ll find helpful how-to’s for choosing skateboard decks, skateboard trucks, skateboard wheels, skateboard bearings, and skateboard components. If you have questions on what size you should ride or have any other questions about building a complete, we recommend you check out our Skateboard Buyer’s Guide. Daddies carries over 60 different skateboard deck brands that sell this popular popsicle shape. Unless you have experience riding a shaped board - something a little more retro or unusual, we recommend you start with a popsicle shape. It’s no wonder these brands are still doing so well - they’ve been with skateboarding since the beginning.Ĭhoosing a skateboard deck is a great place to start when building a complete skateboard. NHS, Inc., the company that produces Santa Cruz Skateboards, Independent Trucks, Bronson Speed Bearings, Krux trucks, Ricta Wheels, Mob Grip, and OJ Wheels started in 1973. Powell Peralta, the company responsible for Powell Skateboards, Bones Wheels, Bones Bearings, and the Bones Brigade also started in 1978. Independent Trucks has been designing trucks since 1978. And while we’ve come a long way from the days of metal and clay wheels, some aspects of skateboarding - like the brands manufacturing some of the most trusted products - haven’t changed at all. When looking at skateboarding’s history, the only thing that has stayed the same is the overall structure: every board consists of four skateboard wheels, two skateboard trucks, and a riding surface of some kind. Like most sports or art forms, progression is at the heart of skateboard innovation.

Skateboards grew and changed shapes as riders experimented with everything from plastic to fiberglass to aluminum constructions - all in an effort to push what was possible.

As skateboarding progressed to mimic surfing, skateboards evolved with the style of riding. Skateboarding, in one form or another, has been around since the late 1950’s when the first brave pioneer first attached roller skate wheels to a piece of wood.

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