Talk:Skateboard

While "typically made of wood" might have been true of skateboards at some point, I don't think it's been true since the 1980s. Almost all the ones I see are composites. --Lee Daniel Crocker

Virtually every modern skateboard deck manufactured today is 7 plies of Canadian Hard Rock Maple. the only "major" (which is a bit of a stretch) company to use composites is the snowboard manufacturer Lib Technologies. They manufacture fiberglass-enhanced skate decks. Other companies have experimented with composite technologies, but none have proven viable.

I think Lee Daniel Crocker is referring to plywood, which is a composite of wood ply and epoxy glue (although a very common one). Tp 05:30, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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What's an "Ollie"? --the Epopt The foundation of all skateboarding tricks -- hard to describe in words, but basically the skater makes his board jump up into the air while he's riding it, up to several feet in the case of a particularly good skater.

Ollie: while riding forward, the rear foot presses firmly, sharply, suddenly, on the tail of the board, at the same time the rider 'unweights' the front leg, and in quick succession afterwards, unweights the rear as he pushes forward with the forward foot, all of which has the effect of causing the board board to first rotate upwards, front foremost, then rotate into a position roughly parallel with the riding surface. (this is what you are usually seeing if you see a skateboarder jump over a low obstacle on the rider's path)(I'm not a skater, I'm a juggler, but this is what it looks like to me when viewed in slow motion.)

Same/similar trick can be done riding backwards too. In combination with other 'moves' this is a core skateboarding skill on which higher order skills are based. nice article, guys, seems to becoming along, putting it on my watchlist.Pedant 21:40, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The key to the ollie (aside from timing of course) is dragging the front foot up the deck, lifting the deck higher and leveling it out. The basic timing is pop - jump/drag front foot - level it out - land.

How about approximate year ranges in the history? –Floorsheim 07:54, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

seriously... this article needs {{attention}} or something... --Smooth Henry 03:59, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

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The extrenal links were worthless. Tp 06:39, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

This is a great explaination of a skateboard! yippeeeeeeeeeeee! jack

Hey all a ollie does is help you if your think that is a trick u must be trippin because it just helps you link other moves

Needs to catalogue more information

We need to catalogue more things about skateboards. Like tricks, skateboard culture, professional skateboarders, etc. Theres far more to skateboarding than it's components. A lot more to it.

In short, I think that Skateboarding should be merged into the Skateboard article.

Some edits

I've cleaned this page up a little and made it easier to understand. The two most significant changes are:

"The wheels, usually made of polyurethane, come in nine different sizes" to "The wheels, usually made of polyurethane, come in many different sizes to suit different types of skating"

And

"Inside each wheel are eight(2 for each wheel) precision ball bearings" to "Inside each wheel are two precision ball bearings of the type '608' (8mm internal bore)". Steve-g 16:36, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the suffix 'bone' from some of the obsolete plastics titles as this is the brand name for Powell plastics - lots of other companies made plastics Steve-g 19:05, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I added some categories from skateboarding to skateboard, since they are very closely related.Fine Arts 17:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Cultural impact

Some history of the skateboard should be included here, especially the late-1970s skateboarding fad, and the association with skate punks in the 1980s. As I've never been on a skateboard without immediately falling on my behind, I leave it to someone else to write this...  ProhibitOnions  ^(T) 19:40, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

A lot of history is included on the skateboarding page. I think this is the correct place for it as skateboarding is an 'act' and therefore a social phenomenon with a history, the skateboard is an 'object' whose history exists only as a social phenomenon. Steve-g 19:56, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Board types

I think they need to be added in. EG ramp, street, long, slide, pool... Any comments? 782 Naumova 22:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. Alongside 'regular' decks, we could include square tailed pool/ramp decks, slalom, drop-centre downhill speed decks, and longboards. I can't think of any others off hand, but a new section on 'specialized decks' would be good. Steve-g 08:10, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

"Obsolete" Parts

I don't think "Obsolete" is the correct header for that section. Any ideas on how it should be renamed? Dubkiller 06:59, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

How about 'optional components'? Steve-g 11:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good, I'll change it. --Dubkiller 07:01, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Trucks

How come there is no section for the trucks? I was looking for the threading specs and when i found them (Hex Die 5/16-24 for the axle) I thought I should put it here but there is no trucks-section and I wanted to check if this was a consious decision since it's such an obvious part? Am I missing something. And please confirm that the threading is right and I would appreciate if someone knew if this varies between trucks. Also the kingpin threading might be useful to know. Reference for the threading (http://www.skateboard-city.com/messageboard/archive/index.php/t-4369.html) --Mnsc 12:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Trucks section is back. Thanks for spotting that. I think it got deleted when some vandalism was reverted. As for threads, 5/15x24tpi is correct for most. I'm not sure about some high-end slalom trucks that have 8mm axles and I'm sure some '70s trucks had different threads as things weren't standardised then. Steve-g 14:50, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Is 5/15x24 a typo from your side? Do you know what threading the kingpin have? I would like to see the wikipedia entry to have some of this more technical information since it isn't all that interesting to the common skateboarder and hence never included in glossaries on skateboarding pages. --Mnsc 18:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops, my typo, sorry. That should be 5/16 of course! The kingpin is 3/8 x 24tpi. I can't remember about mounting hardware. Yes, we could have some technical info here, including the above stuff and maybe a little on sizes of bearings, axle diameters, etc. If you want, we could collect all the info here and then edit it in once we're sure it's all correct. Steve-g 11:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Banana board

Seems to me an article as short as Banana board might be better suited to be a part of the Skateboard article, perhaps under some kind of general history section? --Lijnema 15:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I think Banana board might go well in the 1970s section in the skateboarding page. Steve-g 16:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

It'd be great if someone could move the banana board info into either Skateboard or Skateboarding (or both). I don't know which would be better, and I'm sure someone who perhaps actually knows things about skateboards would be better suited than myself to make the decision. --Lijnema 00:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

If it was up to me, I'd put a line in the history part of skateboarding. But I'm not sure of the policy for merging articles, so it'll have to be someone else who does it. Steve-g 09:12, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Skateboarding Wiki!

Well I Started a skateboarding wiki, it's fairly new, anyways check it out! http://skateboarding.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Dreadnought9 00:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)