How to choose skateboard gears

How to choose skateboard gears?


Choosing your gear
We should all start with protective gears until we mastered the tricks so that we can minimize damage and prevent serious injuries.



Here's the list of protective safety gears that you should have:
1) Helmet
2) Knee/Elbow Pad
3) Wrist Guard
4) Padded Skate Shorts

Helmet
Let's face it! Skateboarding is not all fun and games and you will fall a lot when you're learning new moves and tricks. Therefore, it's important to ensure that you're head is safely intact when you train.


Get a helmet from reputable manufacturer such as Bell or Giro with Australian standard approved. Try all the helmets and choose the one that suits you the most with the design you like.


Knee/Elbow Pad
Knee and elbow pad will help you absorb the impact as well as prevent abrasions from sliding on the ground. I suggest getting a hard plastic caps as it offer the most impact and abrasion protection. Starters should start with thicker pads too. 



Wrist Guard
Wrist injures are common skateboarding injuries based on statistics as it's natural to reach for the ground when you fall. Make sure your wrist guard have splints to absorb impact and reduce chances of injuries because it places a large impact forces and causes lots of injuries when falling.


The splints are the hard pieces on the front and back of the wrist that provide support for the skate wrist guard. These splints can be made of metal, carbon fiber, plastic, or a hard foam. Choose the material based on the protection versus the flexibility you want


Padded Skate Shorts
Ensure that the skate pads provide maximum coverage as it help protect your butt, tailbone, hips, and thighs from impact and abrasions. Do get a thick one if you are just starting out. We recommend you to hand wash it too to ensure that it keeps in good form.

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How to do a kickflip on a skateboard

  

What is a kickflip?

A kickflip is basically just an ollie whereby your board spin underneath you while in the air. A perfect kickflip is when the you kick the board with the top-side of  your front foot, the skateboard flips and spins over at least once and land on the skateboard comfortably.


How to do a kickflip on a skateboard?
Do take note that you will most probably get hurt while doing this trick. Do protect yourself by wearing all your pads and helmet. Make sure that you learn how to ollie perfectly before learning this.


1. Start by putting your feet like when you are doing an ollie
2. Now hit your tail like an ollie but drag your front foot up the board and drag it toward the side of the board with a flicking motion. You will have to flick faster to make faster flips.
3. Keep on top of the board while the board is flipping
4. Once the board flipped completely, let the board hit the back foot. Your front foot should not be too far behind in getting back on the board
   
5. Remember to land with your feet as close to the bolts as possible.



It will take a lot of timing and skill if you want to learn how to do a kickflip on a skateboard as there is not a way to teach on landing a perfect one. Everyone individual have their own personal ways of doing it and therefore, keep on practicing and you are bound to land a perfect kickflip.

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How to do a heeflip

What is a heelflip?
Heelflip is close to doing a kickflip. If you don't know how to kickflip, do learn how to do a kickflip on a skateboard first. Heelflip starts with an ollie but they kick the front heel of the skateboard when the board is in the air. The board will spin once and done! That's a heelflip.


How to do a heeflip?
1. Position yourself like doing an ollie and put your front foot s bit to the toe of your board so that the ball of you foot is about 3/4 of the edge. Your back foot should be placed so that the ball is in the middle of the tail.
2. Hit the tail like doing an ollie and put pressure on the ball of your front foot as you go up and kick outwards.
3. Raise your both feet so that the board is allowed to flip freely and when the board finish the rotation, hit the board and you've done a heelflip!
How to do a heeflip video

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