Monday, October 4, 2010

What is a skateboard?

A skateboard is a board (deck) with two axles (trucks) and four castors (wheels) on which you are standing move by pushing with one leg can. The skateboard is rarely used as a mere means of transportation. Skateboarding (skating) has rather over the decades to develop a sport with a rich repertoire of tricks (tricks) and its own terminology. The tricks consist mostly of jumps with a skateboard and are often implemented in combination with rotations of the board and the body.

A skateboard is a mostly seven-layer, solid Canadian maple or Baltic existing board (blank deck). Its dimensions are usually about 80 centimeters in length and 20 centimeters in width. To the often graphically elaborate bottom two movable axes supported are screwed.