How to Fix a Slow Skateboard

Video Transcript

"My name is Shawn Connolly. I'm from San Francisco, California. I'm a sponsored skateboarder, and I run a youth skateboarding program called the SF Skate Club. Now, what I'm here to show you today is how to fix a slow skateboard. Now, usually, the reason that your skate board ends up being slow is one of two reasons; either your bearings aren't very good or they're wearing out or your wheels aren't very good or they're wearing out. Now, with wheels, you're going to want to make sure that as soon as you get a flat spot, and what a flat spot is, is when you're sliding sideways, you end up getting a small flat dibbet taken out of your wheel. Make sure that you change your wheels after you get flat spots. You'll notice the sounds when you get on a smooth surface, sounds a little bit like you're riding a square type of a wheel and you hear dadadada while you're skating. So, if you ever get a flat spot, you need new wheels, and you need to buy new wheels and set them up, and that will fix that problem. Now, the other problem is a more slow, creeping in problem that you may not notice as quick, and it has to do with you having bad bearings or your bearings wearing out. So, you want to make sure that you always keep good bearings and keep them clean and free of all debris that gets stuck inside of them. Now, what you do for this is you take a small razor blade, and you fix it into the corner of the shield of your bearing, and you just pop that shield off. Now, my shields have been taken off already, and they've found there way to being very dry, and this is the way that I personally like my bearings to be dry and very loud, and it exposes it and opens it up so that the noise comes out a little bit more. The only bearings that I suggest you do this with in keeping the shield off while you skate them is Swiss Bones Bearings because they seem like they're the ones that are the strongest and they last the longest. Always make sure that your products are good and your bearings are always clean and good and your wheels are always nice and round. Now, there's not much you can do about wheels, they're going to wear out and so are bearings. So, you just want to keep maintenance up and keep your board rolling good. And this is how you fix a slow skateboard. My name is Shawn Connolly. I live in San Francisco, California. I'm a sponsored skateboarder and I run a youth skateboarding program called The SF Skate Club. To learn more about it, log onto the sfskateclub.com"