The term can refer skateboard by geographic location to:
A board of wood with four wheels in pairs used to practice the sport called skateboarding . It is also known as skate, scooter or skateboard.
To use it standing to be moved on it. Each pair of wheels has an shaft that is attached to a rod flexible slightly inclined to the table, allowing you to make turns by tilting the table to one side or another, and the gentle twisting motion of the truck involved . The skateboard board are used to make different types of jumps and tricks, including: kickflips, ollies, 180 º…, and others.
It was invented in 1963 in Malibu , California , United States , Mickey Munoz and Phil Edwards as a substitute to the board of surfing on land. They removed the rollers skates, they put a wooden board and called his invention Surf Roll .
In some regions of Latin America the term used to describe skateboard ing only a toy consisting of an elongated platform on two rollers in line and an address bar, with which children slide after stimulus with a walk on the floor that called scooter.
The parts of the skate.
Board: The back is called tail and the front is called a “nose”. Currently most of the boards are made of 7-ply wood , usually maple Canadian, although some are made of oak specially treated to resist and even to excess.Board have an especially designed for skateboarding. One thing to keep in mind are the measures, especially the width of the table, depending on the type of skate to practice.
A board tricks or street intended to be between 7.5 to 7.8 inches .Table 7.5 and below are narrow, recommended for kids. Also the closer or small table will do technique easier, but harder to finalize and fall correctly. The of 7.75 is far more common and more popular.
For large skateparks skate half pipes , a table of between 7.87 to 8.25 inches should be adequate. These boards are so wide that would not be recommended for people of size and weight rather small, measuring people, approximately weighing about 40kg 1.50my because the tricks are hard to do.
There are tables greater in length, called longboard or “longskate.” The most popular longboard is used for skating or downhill descent. Not suitable for tricks of the other styles of skating, and is designed to control at high speed.
There are also scooter s designed for off-road (mountain board), and cattle trails, meadows, rocky soils and other natural terrain rodable. They are of great size and stability and the wheels can overcome the span in diameter, even be the type pneumatic tubes.
Despite what has been said every skater has their own preferences as to the measurements of your table or skateboard.
Shaft: They are two and are coupled to the sides, not reaching the ends. They are usually made of tin (which is an alloy of aluminum, only even less heavy) and are within a “stud” Iron 1 / 2 (equivalent to American as 12’5mm) which fit the wheels and tighten these nuts. The truck are used to make the turns, as have a pair of flexible rubber that allow themselves to perform. The axle assembly to the table requires several components, which can be changed and purchased separately, such as “Kingpins” (lead screw), rubber or plate, etc.. The lead screw is where two tires are flattened and passes through a hole in the shaft to tighten. The measurement is 14mm Kingpin.
Rollers: 4 and they are attached to both ends of the axle, and are made of a material called urethane . Vary in size depending on skate style that is practiced. The more normal hover at around 52 mm. However, if the style is street, small rollers are used, less than 53 mm in diameter. Ramp, large wheels are used for speed, greater than 56 mm. If the style is mixed as recommended are 54 – 55 mm. Usually the larger the wheel the greater its hardness, is usually smaller and softer. The hard rollers on smooth floors are used as skateparks, and soft rollers for rough soils street as the street.
Bearings: These are a couple of metal rings with 6, 7 or 8 steel bearings inside, protected by two thin discs which are usually of iron or steel. Each “skate” takes 8 bearings, 2 per wheel . Depending on its speed of rotation were compared in a classification called “ABEC”. The maximum is ABEC swiss, with all degrees of this scale odd (3, 5, 7, ceramics, swiss). Apart from the classification “ABEC” bearings is higher quality, are rated for Skate Rated. They are the fastest, a clear example of this type of classification are bearing the mark “Bones.”
The Sand: You pasted directly over the table. The sandpaper is used to provide “grip” that is required to perform the tricks. When we say “grip” refers to the traction between the shoe and the board to control the “skate”.
Screws: For the skate you need 4 screws for each truck with their respective nuts to keep the axes and the table together (these screws are usually “Iron Steel” which is a material between the iron and steel), 2 nuts on each truck so that the rollers do not fall out. These nuts are screwed onto the same truck, and finally screw the nut of the “kingpin” (one in each truck).
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