Deca is an essential element of a skateboard design, it largely determines the convenience and safety of its operation. Therefore, the choice of board should be approached very seriously and responsibly.
Specifications
The dece is called a skateboard platform, on which the tracts with wheels are fixed from below, and the skateboarder is placed on top. For the manufacture of the board, various materials are used, but the most best of them is considered Canadian male. This is due to the fact that trees growing near the Great Lakes of North America give a very dense and at the same time elastic wood.
It is the ability to spring makes the Canadian maple that the most suitable material for the manufacture of Dec is favorably featuring it from other woody breeds. In addition, it is very easy to process and is able to transfer high mechanical loads. In addition to Canadian Clean, a Chinese male and birches are involved in the workboard for skateboards. According to its operational characteristics, they significantly inferior to their overseas competitor, but it is much cheaper and quite suitable for beginners.
Wooden decks have a multi-layer structure consisting of 6, 7, and even 9 layers. With a careful consideration of the head of the board, you can see their exact number and order of location, in which some layers have a longitudinal direction, while others are transverse. Thanks to such a design, the Deca acquires additional elasticity and becomes particularly strong.
The layers are glued together with a special glue and are crushed under high pressure. The higher the quality of the glue, the longer the board will not be flashed. From the number of layers, the elasticity of the deck, directly affecting the height of the jump depends on the height. What they are more, the more spring it turns out "click" - repulsion of the edge of the board from the ground, and the higher the skate is "lift".
On some models there is a lower additional layer called Slik . It is made of plastic and serves to perform tricks on the railings, alleviating the slip on metal crossages.
Such boards weigh more ordinary and not very convenient for beginners. By the way, experienced skateboarders are also not particularly complaining, arguing that the decks without a plastic bottom slide on the railing no worse than the slicks.
On the top of the wooden deck there is a special skin called Gripenia. It represents Conventional emery paper on self-adhesive basis and is designed to prevent slipboard foot slip on the surface of the board. In appearance, the fields are black without pattern, either colored with photo printing, and by execution - one-piece or perforated.
Stacks with holes are more preferable when laughing: They smoothly fall on the deck and do not form air bubbles. With regular skating, the skin is erased pretty quickly, so it will have to change it from time to time. When choosing a new gripepite, it should be borne in mind that the fine-grained abrasive is fasterly erased, and the coarse-grained is clogged with mud with soles and ceases to cling. Therefore, the optimal option will be the choice of the neck of the middle grain of black or gray.
In addition to wood, for making Dec use Shockproof plastic capable of withstanding high weight and shock loads.
Plastic platforms found their use on pennies - this is a miniature view of skateboards intended for everyday movement for small distances and performing simple jumps. Plastic decks of hyperships, as a rule, do not have, and their functions assumes a relief pattern of deck, which does not allow the ride's legs to slide on the board.
Sizes and form
Modern decks differ in length, width and depth of bend, and the listed parameters are always strictly proportional to each other and designated in inches. When choosing the desired size Be sure to take into account the growth of the rider.
So, for a child of preschool age, a children's model with dimensions of 27,2x6.5 inches (69x16.5 cm), for students of elementary school, is approaching the elementary school students - an old-hour guys - 29x7.3 inches.
As for the size of adult boards, their width varies from 7.5 to 8.2 inches (19-21 cm) with a length of about 31.5 inches, which is 80 cm.
Choosing the size of the board, you need to take into account that Wide decks are more convenient for landing after performing tricks, as well as for riding on ramp and long-distance travel trips. But narrow more maneuverable and better adapted to twist the complex flips, the execution of which requires special accuracy and speed.
As for the shape of the deck, then It varies depending on the purpose and narrow specialization of the skateboard . For example, all classic models are rounded in the front and rear ends, the names of Nouz and Tale, respectively. The side sides of the boards have a bend, which is called the conquer and is necessary for the execution of flip. The depth of the conquelation in all boards is different and depends on the size and purpose of the skate.
So, on tricky models intended for complex jumps and extreme driving, deck has a greater bend amplitude. Decks with a shallow conqueper are designed for a quiet ride through smooth roads, and for the execution of flips are not suitable.
How to choose?
When buying decks for a skateboard, you must pay attention to a number of important points.
- First of all, make sure that the board is not twisted Since it will be impossible to correct such a flaw, and if the defect is found after the installation of the travers, then it will not take such a product. Recording decks is a consequence of improper storage and transportation, in the process of which the integrity of hermetic factory packaging was violated. Therefore, the first thing to be done when buying a board is to check whether native deck packaging is not broken.
- Next must follow the visual assessment of the surface of the board, For which it is taken for Tail and Noez and have an eye level to the bottom. If the front and rear parts lie in the same plane, then the decline was not subject to deformation. If the parts are at different heights, it is evidence that the board has led and buy such a product is not necessary. Drying wood can occur not only due to improper storage, but also due to the use of poor-quality glue in the manufacture of the board.
- It should be verified that there are no jar on the deck, chips, bloating and check the quality of the hype . It should have a uniform medium-hearted structure, not to bubble and do not have bald zones.
- It is advisable to pay attention and for the production of decks, Since the boards, long-staying on the counter long time dried and break very quickly.
- And the last thing you need to watch when buying decks is company manufacturer. Professional skateboarders recommend purchasing products of foreign companies Baker, Flip, Zero, Alien Workshop, Zoo York, Birdhouse, Toy Machine, Plan B, Powell and Foundation. From Russian brands you can choose "Absurd", "Union" and Footwork. Patriotic models cost almost 2 times cheaper, and in quality it is not much inferior to samples of foreign production.
Storage and Care Conditions
In order for the deck to serve as longer as possible, It needs to be regularly brushed from dirt using soft wet fabric. . Then the board is wipe and removed for storage. Store skateboards with wooden decks should be in rooms with air humidity not higher than 85% and temperatures from 5 to 25 degrees of heat. Such external conditions are considered optimal for glued wood and provide a product to preserve all its operational properties. For plastic declarations no humidity restrictions, The main thing is that the air temperature does not fall below the zero mark.
On how to choose a deck for a skateboard, see the following video.