Buying your first board can be overwhelming as well as exciting, particularly since your formative interactions with skateboarding are likely to govern how you get along with it going forward.
Part of skateboarding’s beauty is the simplicity of the equipment. The skateboard is made up of the wooden deck, upon which the skater stands, and the trucks which operate as steering axles. On those trucks there are a total of four wheels, each with a pair of eight ball bearing races countersunk into the core of the wheel, which allows the skaters to hit those high speeds.