What’s the best part about skateboarding? Being able to do all the cool tricks, which in turn makes you look cool and attracts all the girls you didn’t have the nerve to talk to before. Over the years more and more tricks have been created. What with the use of skateparks and ramps there are so many things that you can do.
The city of Alabaster has landed a national skateboarding event. The Pat Wachter Pro Bowl Contest will be April 28-29 at the city’s skate park at Veterans Park off Alabama 119. Wachter, of Florence, is one of Alabama’s first professional skateboarders. The event will bring some of the top skateboarders in the nation to Alabaster, said Larry Vann, director of the Parks and Recreation Department. The event is expected to draw fans from within and outside the state, he said.
There are three main and important parts to a skateboard, the wheels, the trucks and the deck. There are many different kinds of decks. Some of the most common ones are: Boom, Blank, Edwards, Zero, Birdhouse and Shortys. The trucks job is to support the wheels. You can get abec ones, twos, threes, fours, fives, six, sevens. Abec ones are the slowest. Most people select Abec threes because they are the right speed for most people. You can get plastic or rubber wheels. If you prefer speed then rubber wheels are the way to go.