Comparing Different Types of Skateboards

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Russell Kompinski and on behalf of expert village we're going to learn how to purchase and assemble a skateboard. Now in choosing the brand names of decks, it doesn't really matter as long as you, like I said before, avoid those large department stores. When choosing a deck there are different brands. There is blank decks. This is a blank brand, however it does have a logo on it. This is name brand, and so is this deck. However, both are used, this being new. Now in choosing, the price doesn't matter when you go into a skate shop. You're more paying for the brand name and for the logo. A lot of skate companies are sister companies of larger skate companies so really the manufacturing methods are all the same. When choosing the trucks, all the trucks are generally the same except for you have your allen kingpin and you have your ratchet kingpin. There are different weights to the trucks. Some are made with different metals and alloys. Some that give them lighter weight however are all very durable. When purchasing bearings, you do get what you pay for. If you spend the twenty to twenty five dollar range, you were able to get water resistant bearings so they will never lock up on you. However, you can spend ten dollars and you can still skate, roll, but expect to spend another ten dollars in another month."