The Secret Truth About Walmart Skateboards...
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2024
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Today we explore Walmart Skateboards and try to get a better understanding of why they exist and find out if they are a scam or not.
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Was a Walmart board your first skateboard?
Got to start somewhere, as for those that started with a shop board….must be nice! Thank your parents and give them a hug
Walmart boards are for kids. To get them into the sport. If you are older and haven't learned this by now i feel bad for you...
Mine was probably from Toys R Us in like 1999 for my birthday. It had pikachu on it and I don’t remember it rolling as badly as the typical Walmart boards do these day
it would be sick if the walmart board companies put a little note in each package that says "if you enjoy skating and want to get more serious about it, we highly recommend looking at stores specifically for skating to get higher quality gear!"
I love Shaq, he's a great man.
They are affordable and often help in bringing the skate industry to a greater broader audience, i see them as the introductory skateboard for kids, to get them rolling around
I,d like to see someone go & buy one of these cheap board & dissect it , tearing each ply apart , maybe see what kind of wood there using , what kind of glue , if there’s cross layering , what are the wheels made of , what the grip is made of , what kind of metal are the trucks made of , the bushings , the bearings who makes them , the hardware , every inch of the board , just make it scientific so we all know what materials there making these boards out of so we all know how these company’s could improve on these boards . Kinda like reverse engineering them .
i think the higher quality walmart boards can be good enough to get people into skateboarding, but the bad ones are bad enough to make me think they do more harm than good. i wish there was some kind of quality minimum they all had to have. even for the newest beginners, the worst walmart boards seriously have no use. they're difficult to do anything on even if you're really experienced, and can't really be transportation either since they don't roll. at that point, all we're doing is hurting the environment by wasting materials, and scaring some people away from skateboarding because they get fooled into thinking its harder than it is
The Darkstar decks are good af honestly the braille deck that I got from there complete was also good af used it as a back up got a good sesh out of it in Monterey came in clutch;)
This informative, video essay type of video rocks. It's researched, edited, and informed. Just what scratches my brain.
this is awesome, i love this style of videos. not only interesting, but actually from an deep insider of skateboarding culture. u have the perfect voice and delivery for video essays
Thanks for all the great content Ricky!
I started skating on a Kmart board back in 82', my brother broke it on the second acid drop, but he replaced it with a Powell Perelta deck. As a kid i was crushed, but happy with the new board, and looking back it was probably the best thing to happen. At 50, I still love skating and am currently getting back into it.
Awesome breakdown video Rick, i like how you covered all the basics and then got right into it
Mini logo is really great and so affordable. In the UK there is AWALYS online skate shops has them on sale, you can pick them up for under £50. Quality is mind blowingly great and not talked about enough at all. So underrated!
Really Nice Editing on the Video Ricky! Keep it Up!!
I currently have a Walmart board, I’ve replaced the wheals and bearings and am waiting till I’m good enough for it to snap before I replace the deck and trucks. It’s chipped to hell though.
great video, skateboarding related video essays like this might be the move for the youtube