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1. Best Skateboard Over the past few decades, skateboarding has transformed from a niche hobby to a worldwide sport. As a result, more people have wanted to give it a try and find the best skateboard. Good news: skateboarding can be a fairly affordable activity. “You can get a high-end, complete skateboard for $100 to $200, and it’s the same quality skateboard they use in the Olympics,'” Kevin Banahan, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of SKATEYOGI, tells The Spruce. If you are just starting out, Banahan suggests buying a complete, standard board. After a year or so, you’ll likely figure out how you want to use your board, which will help you determine what type of board to get, what size, and what kind of wheels you'll need.

2. Of course, no matter your level, you always need to invest in the right safety gear. Nadji Kirby, Senior Program Manager for Domestic Road Safety at Safe Kids Worldwide, tells The Spruce that a helmet, pads, and wrist guards are all you need. With so many styles of skateboarding, the best skateboard looks a little different to everyone. We have a huge selection of high-quality skate gear designed for everything from the parks and streets to campus and the hills. What is the best skateboard for beginners? If you’re just starting out yourself or buying for your kid their first skateboard, this is a very good question. But it is a question you are very likely to get a different answer from everyone you ask and every shop or website you visit. You probably know what and where you want to skate. This makes things easy to get a new whip to suit. The good news is that Basement Skate is the perfect place to come and get the right information and get the perfect ride under your feet from the get go. We have an instore crew of skateboarding Ladies and men, old and young with years of experience in all aspects of skateboarding. From modern street and park riding, bowl skating, downhill racing, slalom, freeride longboarding and just casually transporting to school or work, we have it covered. We all started somewhere and we are only too happy to share our experience to make it easy for you to get going and not make any rookie mistakes.

3. Having an idea where you want to skate is the best place. If you are hitting the streets, want to learn some tricks and maybe hit the local ramp or park a ‘regular double kick’ board is a good place to start. Transporting from A to B then a cruiser or longboard is a great option. If you are taller than 130cm, any regular deck between 7.50 and 8.50″ wide is a good place to start, and you’ll get used to whatever is under your feet pretty quickly. The good news is that these days there is a huge range of complete skateboards you can buy straight off the shelf ready to roll. So really all it takes is a little advice from your local skate shop, standing on a few and running with whatever you feel most comfortable with under your feet. Next, grab the brand or graphic you like best. Simple. Even better news is you’ll walk out with a great set up that rides nice and have plenty change in your pocket from $200 to buy yourself a fancy lunch.

4. If you know exactly what you want we can also build a custom board to your exact specifications (in fact, this is our favorite way of getting a board to you, we love getting creative and customizing set ups). Just pick out your favorite brand, model and components and leave the rest to us. When it comes to groms (enthusiastic little kids just starting out) a lot of people buying boards for their kids ask us if they should start out with a mini sized deck. Not necessarily. When you start out the first thing you need to learn is pushing, turning and carving. As little groms are lightweights, if they are on a narrow board it can be difficult to get enough leverage on the trucks to learn to turn effectively. So from that perspective starting out on a wider board can be a good thing.

5. Once this is mastered the next thing is learning to kick turn on transitions and banks, once again board size isn’t critical here. Once they start learning tricks like how to ollie and kickflip… BINGO! That’s where the need for a smaller ‘rider sized’ deck comes into play. The position of your feet is very important too, mini decks are narrower, shorter and have a much smaller wheel base (the distance between the 2 truck axles). If you learned to ollie on a regular board then have tried it on a longboard you will know what I mean. So, for kids the initial size of the board isn’t super critical, but when they progress to learning tricks it’s something to consider. With older riders, sometimes a wider deck is also a great place to start. Whatever you get you will get used to quickly if you spend time on board. You might change what size board you ride as your tricks and ability evolve. The best advice we can give is to try a few different boards out with your friends or at a skate school and most important of all, keep practicing and skateboarding everyday.