Adjusting a Skateboard

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Summary: Being able to make adjustments to a skateboard will enable the board to perform exactly as the skater desires. Learn how to adjust a skateboard from a professional skater in this free extreme sports video.

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Shawn Connolly Shawn Connolly has over 20 years of skateboarding knowledge. He has appeared in Slap, Thrasher and Transworld magazines and his sponsors include Venture Truck... read more

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Adjusting a Skateboard

Adjusting your board. Now that you've got your board completely put together what you're going to want to do is find exactly how you want the board to perform for you. Now some of the things that can vary have to do with how tight the trucks are and also how loose you let the wheels go. Now the wheels aren't as important as the trucks. As I said before with the wheel some people like to give it a little bit of play so that they can hear it move. This is how I like to ride my board. And some people like to lock the wheel in so there's not as much sound and it's more of a locked down feeling and it's all connected. Now when it comes to the truck, when you first put together your board you're going to notice that new trucks are very hard to break in. They haven't been turned yet and a weight hasn't been put on the truck to see how it's going to end up feeling. So the best way to do it is to put a board together, take the board out where you're going to skate at and travel with a tool in your pocket or bring a tool with you the first day that you've put together the board and actually skate it. And skate on the board and turn and then slowly tighten the trucks or loosen them as desired and figure out what works best for you. So by cruising with the tool in your pocket you'll save yourself a lot of time. Now breaking bushings in can take a lot of time so you may want to keep the tool around while you skate for the first few days of breaking in a new set of trucks and adjusting the king pin. Slowly loosening or tightening as desired. And this is just some of the adjustments that you might need when putting a board together.