http://blog.kabsurf.com Your direct pipeline into skateboarding life brought to you by KABSURF.COM Online Skate Shop Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:10:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The holiday season is soon to arrive! With so much to choose from it can be difficult to choose the right gift item for your that special skater someone. Here are a neat gift ideas that may help out: Gift Idea 1: The Complete Skateboard Gift - At your neighborhood ... http://blog.kabsurf.com/2007/11/21/skateboard-gift-ideas/ The ollie is the most fundamental of skateboard tricks and opens the door for an entire arsenal of other skate tricks. Many were amazed when they first saw Alan "Ollie" Gelfand working variations of this trick into his vert ramp maneuvers. Here is how to ollie on a skateboard: 1. Position your ... http://blog.kabsurf.com/2006/12/12/how-to-ollie-on-a-skateboard/ Choosing Bushings The bushings are the rubber part of the truck that flexes when you turn. The bushing can be removed and replaced to custom tweak your riding experience. The harder the bushing is the more stable and stiffer the turning of the board will be. Softer truck bushings give you ... http://blog.kabsurf.com/2006/11/29/choosing-skateboard-trucks/ This guide will help answer some of the questions you may have when deciding which skateboard deck to buy. Skateboard decks tend to be designed around four common types of skating. FYI - When you see 8.25x33 beside the name of the skate deck. This means that the deck is ... http://blog.kabsurf.com/2006/11/28/choosing-a-skateboard-deck/ Skateboard wheels are designed in countless different sizes and hardnesses. A skateboard wheel typically has two measurements. The diameter(how tall the wheel is) and the durometer(how hard the wheel is). Most wheels are identified using the A-scale of hardness. For example 99A. Hardness is a very important to where you skate and ... http://blog.kabsurf.com/2006/11/17/choosing-skateboard-wheels/ Old school pool riding virtually drove the world into a ravenous skateboard culture explosion. The Z-boys came out of Dogtown in the mid 70s riding for the infamous Zephyr Surfboard Production shop's owner Jeff Ho. Shortly after their claim to fame they all eventually parted ways from Zephyr and joined ... http://blog.kabsurf.com/2006/11/03/the-lords-of-dogtown-the-z-boyz/