I bought my first board in 94 at the best local shop at the time, I remember the experience to this day! I got back into skating at 36 because my kids are really into it, I can't be the dad watching at the skate park! I felt like a complete newbie again when it came to getting a board set up, after skating for almost 20 years and taking a decade hiatus. Hey, I'm older, slower,... bigger. So, we went down to the local shop and it was so much fun! My 3 kids had so much fun, they got us all set up. I spent a fuck ton, but, hey support your local shop! No, in all seriousness that's my own fault for upgrading everything for my own board... don't tell mom. 🤐🤣😅
I started skating in the late 80s and every pro had a particular shape, so every board was a whole different deal, but we really were more into graphics, like the santa cruz corey o'brien (the skeleton with the fireball) was a dream board, also very popular was rob roskopp's decomposing face deck. For the first board i was 12 y.o. i went with my father to this skate shop in my city naples (italy) called crazy surf and i got a powell peralta steve saiz (it looked pretty little so more 'manageable' to me) , indy trucks and powell bright green bones wheels that were HUGE but didn't felt inappropriate at the time, and yellow rails, there was in the shop all the squad of sponsored guys i idolized at the time (then like an year later i skated regularly with them and had a shop sponsoring me too), and my father when i had to pay started to say out loud 'try to get a discount! Try to get a discount!' I was in a storm of shame, all the cool sponsored guys there hearing and i was there like a moron with my dad wanting to look cool it was pretty painful. At the time i remember i thinked that if you were sponsored by a shop you could take all the stuff you wanted for free, even clothes, then when i got sponsored my deal was that i had a free board at the beginning and then only a discount on board trucks wheels and stuff, then it ended after like a year because I wasn't really promoting the shop and taking people to buy stuff there. The deck i loved the most among all the boards i had was a blind henry sanchez two girls heads, idk why i think because it felt so 'new era' to me at the time
Great info here. Every skate club in the country needs to share it with their members. I started with a “custom” complete and slowly upgraded it as my needs and skills changed. Now I like a fresh deck every year because it’s fun to skate new deck designs. I usually ride my trucks for 2-3 years though.
Back in the nineteen hundred and nineties we would have to go on a vision quest in the woods as adolescents. After days of fasting and being driven to the edge of madness through ritual plant medicine as well as sleep deprivation, we would be shown to a tree which then had to be cut down using a bone saw with a handle made of iguana skin and fox hide. There we would fashion our perfect shape. Fine tuning the wheelbase and concave in accordance with the ways of our ancestors. After 7 days we would emerge from the forest with a sick new complete.
Why are deck widths measured in inches while wheel diameters measured in mm? Also why are street truck widths measured in inches while longboard truck widths are measured in mm 🤔
I'm a relatively big guy (6'1" 250lb) and have never really ridden a skateboard before. Would you recommend going for a 9-10" board for just getting used to cruising around the neighborhood?
Damn man… this is a legit great/helpfull vid. All bidness. I feel bad doing this but Levi wearing a “hockey” hat is exactly what nobody asked for. Except for Canadians. Oh wait….. whoops
Popical boards are not all the same both ends. Yes you can get popical boards that are but most have a nose and a tail end and the nose is longer, not by much but it is on most decks and the degree the tail end is to the nose is diffent too. He failed to say anything about the pressing number too. They press decks in stacks of 5 and where your deck is will determine whether it is a shallow concave or not. The pressing orders are genrally stamped in near your nose end , just above the hardwear holes for your trucks. If you have trouble telling your nose from your tail, locate the stamp befor you put your grip tape on and an old trick is to put a slap of paint on one of the bolts or put a diffent colour bolt or a phillips head bolt if the rest are hex bolts in at your nose end so you are skating your board the right way round at a glance and you can set up your trucks to have the nose and the tail at diffent tighnesses to your preference. Oh and 1 inch hardwear is more for if you have riser plates and genrally to long and with bearings, dont bother spending much on them as the ABEC is compleatly over rated. Its only relevent when using them in machines and the difference between a ABEC3 ( that tony halk genrally uses ) and a ABEC 7 is less that a hair in intolarent. As a beginner, just get cheap sealed units so you dont have to manitance them if you get a bit of dirt or water on them. They can last you 12 months easy without pulling them apart all the time to clean and re lube them and they are so cheap that tossing them in the bin when they are dead is way easier , cost eficant and labour saving than spending the money on over hyped products being pushed on channels like this. The only time you should spend good money on bearings is if your deicated to doing the matinace and that can be every second time you go for a spin depending on the environment. Even the bones swiss and Bronson ceramics get crap in them that make them crunchy quick that can be disheartening after thinking you have bought a quality product yet they can and will fail if your getting water or rubish in them . Its a shame when information aimed at beginners is incorrect or aimed at a gullible audiance as when a skater progresses this information matters and the wrong information can make progression slower and harder making new skaters lose interest because one minute there skating right side round and the next they are skating nolly and the board will feel diffent but they wont know why or they might get some sand in their bearings and think its the quality of the bearings not the conditions they put them though and next day spending good money for more of the same. Lets not dumb it down unless this is aimed at 10 yos. Give credit where credit is due and not fill peoples heads with crap from the get go . If you want better information try watching content producers that are willing to get technical coming from a wealth of experience like ruclips.net/video/-t-3hCAsIFI/видео.htmlsi=UTW7Co-r3Gd0P5j8 As just one example that dosent get kick backs for name dropping.
i get where you are coming from, but i think they were trying to generalize to not intimidate someone shopping for possibly their first set up. i'm sure someone at a shop would let someone know the difference between a nose and a tail, its just not as relevant when they are trying to differentiate between a more drastically shaped board and a popsicle. personally from having worked at a shop for over 17 years, i wouldn't want to overwhelm a newbie by getting them into pressing number. this is more of a niche thing that wouldn't benefit a newbie as much because they wouldn't have a baseline to compare to.
@@pointandclick. its a sure fire way to know what is the right way round at lest and if they are aware that pressing numbers can make a difference, they wont be confused if they brought the same deck twice and if it feels all wrong, they will know why. My 7yo can wrap her head around that already. I personally hate a deep concaves and worked that one out real quick just from trying friends set ups riding the same size popsicle decks back in the last century ( im old , lol )and at first thought it was a brand thing when really they where just 7.75 inches decks and some even from the same factory but diffent pressings. But the coloured hardwear at the nose end for absolute beginners gets them started off on the right foot, so to speak, setting them up for good habbits and less confusion for board feel in the long run. Ive had to revisit all this basic stuff in the last year teaching my 7yo how to skate and she already knows that she likes my deck better than her first deck and her's is a old school deck of mine i had kicking around the shed i did not love to death because its a deep pressing. As for the bearings, she has ICD 9 golds that are a rollerskate sealed units bearing that are greased , not oiled and i know she can use them on the grittiest of roads and they will repel basicly everything. They dont go any slower than a set of bones new out of the pack either . Ive got a set in my big green gummies for REALLY wrough roads and they have gone over everything like a bull dozer and that set of bearings are 8 years old still kicking and coped a absolute hiding . I chose them for gnarly almost off roading as we live rural and the roads hear are far from smooth , being a sealed units i know they wont shit their selfs the min they get a bit of sand near them or id be stuck cleaning bearings every weekend. Now if someone is a beginner and they dont have olds that skate themselves, their not going to know how to look after their bearings. Best bet is to go for a fail safe , bomb proof set of bearings untill they know what kind of skating they enjoy more, same with the wheels. Get something on the softer DR side so you dont have a kid rattling their fillings out street skating on roads and if they prefer skating transition at a nice smooth skate park, then go the harder DR wheels , its not like you are needing to do slids and if they run a bit slower, thats not such a bad thing for someone thats still learning how to push. Kidlet has a set of rictor clouds on atm and has a set of the green dragons kicking about too as she is always useing her skateboard more as transport on the same wrough roads i mentioned earlier. As she is doing more road skating, im thinking 8" might be a better size for her next or maybe wider for more stabilty and some wider trucks for the same reasons. She is not needing agility as she isent that interseted atm in doing flip tricks and is enjoying way to much for my liking just bombing down the road at a great rate of knots running the dog. Her older brother melted a set of wheels doing this year's ago too but there is a huge gap in their ages and he started off on a bigger shape boards as they where more popular when he started skateing and still rides them but he got preety techie to what his needs where quiet quickly because none of this was dumbed down from the get go.
@@JadedGenXer This is a video for our website for someone buying their first skateboard or a parent buying a board for their kid. They don't need to know about wheel bases or board pressings. I've been selling skateboards for over 20yrs in store and online, and people get bombarded with way too much info on their first purchase. Love Ben's vids tho!
Depends what you wanna ride! If you want to ride bowl and transition I'd say 8.25 to 8.5. If you want to ride ledges, rails and street, I'd say 8.0-8.25!
Been wanting to get back into skating can still kickflip and bigspin and stuff and its been 5 years used my buddies board from work and did these two trick almost first try but skating has gotten so pricey building a complete used to be 150 bucks now its more like 300
@@seanmckelvey6618 building the board i had back then just plain indies a crail tap board some china red bearing and bones wheels so yea ig im getting the best shit u right
I reckon you right but i see more range now, like when you and I prolly grew up you could buy a proper deck or a k mart deck and there wasnt much in between but now you can get an okay deck for okay money. Good luck and do get back into it for sure. If just to push around.
If you want your son to have the best of the best get him either a BAKER, Element, Girl, independent. Either of the skate brands are legit, make sure to add in some Reds bearings for wheels.
Can skateboarding exist without shitting on other individual sports? Legit serious question. Skateboarding would have died in the late 90’s without shitting on rollerbladers and here we are a little more than twenty years later. Skateboarding is back at the same spot, struggling to survive economically and dude opens the video shitting on the scooter kids. Which I’ve noticed is a trend on this channel. It’s honestly pretty pathetic
Jesus Christ dude, get a sense of humor or stfu. Nobody likes a buzzkill and especially an ignorant one. You're completely wrong about skating and harshing on rollerblading. That sport was dying without needing any help from skaters. You might as well blqme Adam Sandler in "Big Daddy" as well. Also, the days of chasing the scooter kids out of the skatepark are loooong gone. You didn't/don't skate do ya?
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I bought my first board in 94 at the best local shop at the time, I remember the experience to this day! I got back into skating at 36 because my kids are really into it, I can't be the dad watching at the skate park! I felt like a complete newbie again when it came to getting a board set up, after skating for almost 20 years and taking a decade hiatus. Hey, I'm older, slower,... bigger. So, we went down to the local shop and it was so much fun! My 3 kids had so much fun, they got us all set up. I spent a fuck ton, but, hey support your local shop! No, in all seriousness that's my own fault for upgrading everything for my own board... don't tell mom. 🤐🤣😅
Lol😂
I started skating in the late 80s and every pro had a particular shape, so every board was a whole different deal, but we really were more into graphics, like the santa cruz corey o'brien (the skeleton with the fireball) was a dream board, also very popular was rob roskopp's decomposing face deck. For the first board i was 12 y.o. i went with my father to this skate shop in my city naples (italy) called crazy surf and i got a powell peralta steve saiz (it looked pretty little so more 'manageable' to me) , indy trucks and powell bright green bones wheels that were HUGE but didn't felt inappropriate at the time, and yellow rails, there was in the shop all the squad of sponsored guys i idolized at the time (then like an year later i skated regularly with them and had a shop sponsoring me too), and my father when i had to pay started to say out loud 'try to get a discount! Try to get a discount!' I was in a storm of shame, all the cool sponsored guys there hearing and i was there like a moron with my dad wanting to look cool it was pretty painful. At the time i remember i thinked that if you were sponsored by a shop you could take all the stuff you wanted for free, even clothes, then when i got sponsored my deal was that i had a free board at the beginning and then only a discount on board trucks wheels and stuff, then it ended after like a year because I wasn't really promoting the shop and taking people to buy stuff there. The deck i loved the most among all the boards i had was a blind henry sanchez two girls heads, idk why i think because it felt so 'new era' to me at the time
Nice essay and I’ve always wanted a unique shaped board
Y’all have 768 videos with 76.8k subs, love when numbers line up like that and great content
Best advice in the beginning- go to your local skate shop🤘🏼 don’t buy online if it’s your first purchase
Great info here. Every skate club in the country needs to share it with their members. I started with a “custom” complete and slowly upgraded it as my needs and skills changed. Now I like a fresh deck every year because it’s fun to skate new deck designs. I usually ride my trucks for 2-3 years though.
I’m 40 and probably bought and built 100 completes since I was 12 but I still enjoyed this.
Poor Andy got the short end of the stick for the meme on target boards, even though his video was about not buying target boards lol.
R/newskaters needed this video desperately
@1:17 you misspelled RAD
Happy New Year, Levi!
I think he means Cad as in Canadian Dollars
Step 1 don't go to zumiez
Y
Lmao
@@weirdman1413they ass
@@weirdman1413because they’re corporate owned! 🤣🤣🤣
tbh i secretly like zumiez😅
Shredz shop is goated
🙌🙏
Very informative 🔥
Back in the nineteen hundred and nineties we would have to go on a vision quest in the woods as adolescents. After days of fasting and being driven to the edge of madness through ritual plant medicine as well as sleep deprivation, we would be shown to a tree which then had to be cut down using a bone saw with a handle made of iguana skin and fox hide. There we would fashion our perfect shape. Fine tuning the wheelbase and concave in accordance with the ways of our ancestors. After 7 days we would emerge from the forest with a sick new complete.
🙏🍿
Wish Levi worked at my local 😏
What kind would I need for not quite cruising or skate?
Ive been thinking about blending surf and freestyle.
I've been shopping my local since 1996. I've never bought boards or shoes from anywhere else. Shoutout to Cheapskates.
Also, do not skate with your tool in your pocket. OGs know.
Cool video very informative and we always shop local
Awesome vid as always , hardest thing is truck sizes 🤣😂 Much Love ❤️🛹🤘🏻🇿🇦
We got a chart on there for all the big brands! 💪🙌
I miss skateboarding 🛹
Bronx wheels, a german brand, not really tested by myself but so far so good... 😎
Why are deck widths measured in inches while wheel diameters measured in mm?
Also why are street truck widths measured in inches while longboard truck widths are measured in mm 🤔
Agree trucks in mm is annoying
The whole Imperial System must go! Long live the Metric System!
Yo,what about risers & rails ?
I'm a relatively big guy (6'1" 250lb) and have never really ridden a skateboard before. Would you recommend going for a 9-10" board for just getting used to cruising around the neighborhood?
I'm currently growing
So should I 1 my size or a bigger one or wait?
13yrs old and size 7 uk around 5.1"
Bit overweight
Damn man… this is a legit great/helpfull vid. All bidness. I feel bad doing this but Levi wearing a “hockey” hat is exactly what nobody asked for. Except for Canadians. Oh wait….. whoops
Popical boards are not all the same both ends.
Yes you can get popical boards that are but most have a nose and a tail end and the nose is longer, not by much but it is on most decks and the degree the tail end is to the nose is diffent too.
He failed to say anything about the pressing number too.
They press decks in stacks of 5 and where your deck is will determine whether it is a shallow concave or not.
The pressing orders are genrally stamped in near your nose end , just above the hardwear holes for your trucks.
If you have trouble telling your nose from your tail, locate the stamp befor you put your grip tape on and an old trick is to put a slap of paint on one of the bolts or put a diffent colour bolt or a phillips head bolt if the rest are hex bolts in at your nose end so you are skating your board the right way round at a glance and you can set up your trucks to have the nose and the tail at diffent tighnesses to your preference.
Oh and 1 inch hardwear is more for if you have riser plates and genrally to long and with bearings, dont bother spending much on them as the ABEC is compleatly over rated.
Its only relevent when using them in machines and the difference between a ABEC3 ( that tony halk genrally uses ) and a ABEC 7 is less that a hair in intolarent.
As a beginner, just get cheap sealed units so you dont have to manitance them if you get a bit of dirt or water on them.
They can last you 12 months easy without pulling them apart all the time to clean and re lube them and they are so cheap that tossing them in the bin when they are dead is way easier , cost eficant and labour saving than spending the money on over hyped products being pushed on channels like this.
The only time you should spend good money on bearings is if your deicated to doing the matinace and that can be every second time you go for a spin depending on the environment.
Even the bones swiss and Bronson ceramics get crap in them that make them crunchy quick that can be disheartening after thinking you have bought a quality product yet they can and will fail if your getting water or rubish in them .
Its a shame when information aimed at beginners is incorrect or aimed at a gullible audiance as when a skater progresses this information matters and the wrong information can make progression slower and harder making new skaters lose interest because one minute there skating right side round and the next they are skating nolly and the board will feel diffent but they wont know why or they might get some sand in their bearings and think its the quality of the bearings not the conditions they put them though and next day spending good money for more of the same.
Lets not dumb it down unless this is aimed at 10 yos.
Give credit where credit is due and not fill peoples heads with crap from the get go .
If you want better information try watching content producers that are willing to get technical coming from a wealth of experience like ruclips.net/video/-t-3hCAsIFI/видео.htmlsi=UTW7Co-r3Gd0P5j8
As just one example that dosent get kick backs for name dropping.
i get where you are coming from, but i think they were trying to generalize to not intimidate someone shopping for possibly their first set up.
i'm sure someone at a shop would let someone know the difference between a nose and a tail, its just not as relevant when they are trying to differentiate between a more drastically shaped board and a popsicle.
personally from having worked at a shop for over 17 years, i wouldn't want to overwhelm a newbie by getting them into pressing number. this is more of a niche thing that wouldn't benefit a newbie as much because they wouldn't have a baseline to compare to.
@@pointandclick. its a sure fire way to know what is the right way round at lest and if they are aware that pressing numbers can make a difference, they wont be confused if they brought the same deck twice and if it feels all wrong, they will know why.
My 7yo can wrap her head around that already.
I personally hate a deep concaves and worked that one out real quick just from trying friends set ups riding the same size popsicle decks back in the last century ( im old , lol )and at first thought it was a brand thing when really they where just 7.75 inches decks and some even from the same factory but diffent pressings.
But the coloured hardwear at the nose end for absolute beginners gets them started off on the right foot, so to speak, setting them up for good habbits and less confusion for board feel in the long run.
Ive had to revisit all this basic stuff in the last year teaching my 7yo how to skate and she already knows that she likes my deck better than her first deck and her's is a old school deck of mine i had kicking around the shed i did not love to death because its a deep pressing.
As for the bearings, she has ICD 9 golds that are a rollerskate sealed units bearing that are greased , not oiled and i know she can use them on the grittiest of roads and they will repel basicly everything.
They dont go any slower than a set of bones new out of the pack either .
Ive got a set in my big green gummies for REALLY wrough roads and they have gone over everything like a bull dozer and that set of bearings are 8 years old still kicking and coped a absolute hiding .
I chose them for gnarly almost off roading as we live rural and the roads hear are far from smooth , being a sealed units i know they wont shit their selfs the min they get a bit of sand near them or id be stuck cleaning bearings every weekend.
Now if someone is a beginner and they dont have olds that skate themselves, their not going to know how to look after their bearings.
Best bet is to go for a fail safe , bomb proof set of bearings untill they know what kind of skating they enjoy more, same with the wheels.
Get something on the softer DR side so you dont have a kid rattling their fillings out street skating on roads and if they prefer skating transition at a nice smooth skate park, then go the harder DR wheels , its not like you are needing to do slids and if they run a bit slower, thats not such a bad thing for someone thats still learning how to push.
Kidlet has a set of rictor clouds on atm and has a set of the green dragons kicking about too as she is always useing her skateboard more as transport on the same wrough roads i mentioned earlier.
As she is doing more road skating, im thinking 8" might be a better size for her next or maybe wider for more stabilty and some wider trucks for the same reasons.
She is not needing agility as she isent that interseted atm in doing flip tricks and is enjoying way to much for my liking just bombing down the road at a great rate of knots running the dog.
Her older brother melted a set of wheels doing this year's ago too but there is a huge gap in their ages and he started off on a bigger shape boards as they where more popular when he started skateing and still rides them but he got preety techie to what his needs where quiet quickly because none of this was dumbed down from the get go.
@@JadedGenXer This is a video for our website for someone buying their first skateboard or a parent buying a board for their kid. They don't need to know about wheel bases or board pressings. I've been selling skateboards for over 20yrs in store and online, and people get bombarded with way too much info on their first purchase. Love Ben's vids tho!
Justin Bieber has great tips for buying a skateboard.
Levi will be sooo hyped on this comment.. 🤣🤫
Always good Karma helping out the noobs
I’m 13, 5’6, and shoe size 8. What deck size should I get?
Depends what you wanna ride! If you want to ride bowl and transition I'd say 8.25 to 8.5. If you want to ride ledges, rails and street, I'd say 8.0-8.25!
@@ShredzShop thanks
Can I put skateboard trucks on my scooter?
Fire
Been wanting to get back into skating can still kickflip and bigspin and stuff and its been 5 years used my buddies board from work and did these two trick almost first try but skating has gotten so pricey building a complete used to be 150 bucks now its more like 300
No it don't. Deck 75 with grip, Trucks 60, Wheels 40, Bearings 20
I mean, maybe if you're buying all the most expensive shit, but in reality you can build a complete for far less than $300.
@@seanmckelvey6618 building the board i had back then just plain indies a crail tap board some china red bearing and bones wheels so yea ig im getting the best shit u right
Thats 200 right there so i was a lil off u right
I reckon you right but i see more range now, like when you and I prolly grew up you could buy a proper deck or a k mart deck and there wasnt much in between but now you can get an okay deck for okay money. Good luck and do get back into it for sure. If just to push around.
Anyone have a 5 yr old boy? My son wants a board but not sure of the size. He is riding a dinghy blunt right now .
Probably an 8.75 on indys
If you want your son to have the best of the best get him either a BAKER, Element, Girl, independent. Either of the skate brands are legit, make sure to add in some Reds bearings for wheels.
I bought a skate board from Walmart and it barely rolled
He said dont go to a mall for a reason
🍻🍻🍻
my local is run by a racist.
😓
That sucks! Go to the next local, mate.
What shop is it?
@@SkategrindDiaries
I don't wanna give it attention but its in the central valley of California
That's horrible, I hope there's somewhere else in your area you can get a board from good people.
I make do!
Can skateboarding exist without shitting on other individual sports? Legit serious question.
Skateboarding would have died in the late 90’s without shitting on rollerbladers and here we are a little more than twenty years later. Skateboarding is back at the same spot, struggling to survive economically and dude opens the video shitting on the scooter kids. Which I’ve noticed is a trend on this channel. It’s honestly pretty pathetic
It's just a joke bud
that doesnt make any sense
Jesus Christ dude, get a sense of humor or stfu. Nobody likes a buzzkill and especially an ignorant one. You're completely wrong about skating and harshing on rollerblading. That sport was dying without needing any help from skaters. You might as well blqme Adam Sandler in "Big Daddy" as well. Also, the days of chasing the scooter kids out of the skatepark are loooong gone. You didn't/don't skate do ya?