Best Electric Skateboard Brands

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Best Skateboard
Over the past few decades, skateboarding has
transformed from a niche hobby to a worldwide
sport. As a result, more people have wanted to
give it a try and find the best skateboard. Good
news skateboarding can be a fairly affordable
activity. You can get a high-end, complete
skateboard for 100 to 200, and its the same
quality skateboard they use in the Olympics,'
Kevin Banahan, the Co-Founder and Executive
Director of SKATEYOGI, tells The Spruce. If you
are just starting out, Banahan suggests buying a
complete, standard board. After a year or so,
youll likely figure out how you want to use your
board, which will help you determine what type
of board to get, what size, and what kind of
wheels you'll need.
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Of course, no matter your level, you always need
to invest in the right safety gear. Nadji Kirby,
Senior Program Manager for Domestic Road Safety
at Safe Kids Worldwide, tells The Spruce that a
helmet, pads, and wrist guards are all you
need. With so many styles of skateboarding, the
best skateboard looks a little different to
everyone. We have a huge selection of
high-quality skate gear designed for everything
from the parks and streets to campus and the
hills. What is the best skateboard for
beginners? If youre just starting out yourself
or buying for your kid their first skateboard,
this is a very good question. But it is a
question you are very likely to get a different
answer from everyone you ask and every shop or
website you visit. You probably know what and
where you want to skate. This makes things easy
to get a new whip to suit. The good news is
that Basement Skate is the perfect place to come
and get the right information and get the
perfect ride under your feet from the get go. We
have an instore crew of skateboarding Ladies and
men, old and young with years of experience in
all aspects of skateboarding. From modern
street and park riding, bowl skating, downhill
racing, slalom, freeride longboarding and just
casually transporting to school or work, we have
it covered. We all started somewhere and we are
only too happy to share our experience to make it
easy for you to get going and not make any
rookie mistakes.
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Having an idea where you want to skate is the
best place. If you are hitting the streets, want
to learn some tricks and maybe hit the local ramp
or park a regular double kick board is a good
place to start. Transporting from A to B then a
cruiser or longboard is a great option. If you
are taller than 130cm, any regular deck between
7.50 and 8.50" wide is a good place to start,
and youll get used to whatever is under your
feet pretty quickly. The good news is that these
days there is a huge range of complete
skateboards you can buy straight off the shelf
ready to roll. So really all it takes is a little
advice from your local skate shop, standing on a
few and running with whatever you feel most
comfortable with under your feet. Next, grab
the brand or graphic you like best. Simple. Even
better news is youll walk out with a great set
up that rides nice and have plenty change in your
pocket from 200 to buy yourself a fancy lunch.
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If you know exactly what you want we can also
build a custom board to your exact
specifications (in fact, this is our favorite way
of getting a board to you, we love getting
creative and customizing set ups). Just pick out
your favorite brand, model and components and
leave the rest to us. When it comes to groms
(enthusiastic little kids just starting out) a
lot of people buying boards for their kids ask
us if they should start out with a mini sized
deck. Not necessarily. When you start out the
first thing you need to learn is pushing, turning
and carving. As little groms are lightweights,
if they are on a narrow board it can be difficult
to get enough leverage on the trucks to learn to
turn effectively. So from that perspective
starting out on a wider board can be a good
thing.
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Once this is mastered the next thing is learning
to kick turn on transitions and banks, once
again board size isnt critical here. Once they
start learning tricks like how to ollie and
kickflip BINGO! Thats where the need for a
smaller rider sized deck comes into play. The
position of your feet is very important too, mini
decks are narrower, shorter and have a much
smaller wheel base (the distance between the 2
truck axles). If you learned to ollie on a
regular board then have tried it on a longboard
you will know what I mean. So, for kids the
initial size of the board isnt super critical,
but when they progress to learning tricks its
something to consider. With older riders,
sometimes a wider deck is also a great place to
start. Whatever you get you will get used to
quickly if you spend time on board. You might
change what size board you ride as your tricks
and ability evolve. The best advice we can give
is to try a few different boards out with your
friends or at a skate school and most important
of all, keep practicing and skateboarding
everyday.