Freestyle Skateboard Skid Plate

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Freestyle skateboard skid plate. What are skid plates you ask. These are seismic s new skid plates made using some high grade proprietary compound designed to resist wear and tested by professional freestylers tony gale and stefan lillis åkesson. Low profile tail skid plate v2. Many freestyle tricks such as spacewalks 50 50s can cause a lot of wear and thinning of the nose and tail.

Avoiding wear on the nose and tail is important for freestyle boards as there are many tricks that excert a lot of force on the ends of the board which if worn down too far will delaminate and ruin the deck. Old school skate shop with vintage skateboards for skateboard collectors and anyone who loves to ride old school skateboards. Why do we still use them. Tail savers or tail skids to reduce the frictional wear on the underside of the deck nose and tail.

Vintage nos original ultra vision 6 freestyle skateboard tail guard skid plate 27 99. They re basically mandatory if you re setting up a freestyle deck well unless you like giving us money for a new deck every month anyway. This is more important for a freestyler than a street skater as many common freestyle maneuvers wear the nose and tail down very quickly and this would get very expensive as deck replacements would be frequent. Freestyle skateboards are normally fitted with skid plates tail savers to prevent delamination of the deck wood.

Skateboard accessory and streetwear brand aimed at perpetuating and growing freestyle skateboarding and any weirdness associated with it. Skull skates freestyle tail skid 5 5 black. In short they re hard slabs of plastic to fit to the ends of the board preventing it from being pogo d to oblivion through razortail. Vintage 70s 180 one eighty skid plate.

Skid plates are also known as skids tailsavers grind plates or tail bones powell peralta. Freestyle skateboards typically have skidplates a k a. They re slightly grippier than a regular skid plate so if you find most skids a little too slippery these are worth looking into. 4d 18h 18m 3s.

Skid plates were once a fairly common way to prolong the life of a skateboard but now almost solely exist on the underside of freestyle boards. Because razortail pogos.