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Skateboarding Safety Gears and Accessories
Posted: Oct 28, 2014
Skateboarding is an extreme sport which is filled with full of fun, adventure and unlimited excitement. However, like any other extreme sports this game also has some extreme dangers for the players. Despite skateboarding looks quite simple and easy sport, but it has involved extreme dangers and there were many skateboarders often suffer injuries while skateboarding.
Skateboarding involves skill and talent. Many people skateboard in the professional circuit while there are many who just do skateboarding simply for fun and thrill. Although it does not matter whether you do skateboarding professionally or casually the dangers and risk, levels involved are the same for everyone.
While doing skateboarding you need to be more careful and take precautions with adequate safety gears:
Helmets: If there is something that can be worth as much as your life then it is your head. The helmet is a life saver especially for the extreme sports. Skateboard helmets gives ultimate protection to the head and help prevent injury from any minor or critical fall. These days they are available in more lightweight helmets that are made of artificial foam and thick rubber specially for skateboarding; these helmets are so light that rider even doesn’tfeel of wearing the helmet.
Knee pads and elbow pads: Kneepads and elbow pads are two of the most important safety gears that must be worn every time whenever someone is doing skateboarding. These pads are made of high-densityfibre and plastic, which prevents kneecaps, and elbow caps from getting damaged.
Skateboard Accessories: Skateboard accessories are the most important part of the skateboards. Note these skateboard accessories are not just for fun rather they also provide great stability to the skateboard. In the skateboard accessories are include the most important skateboard accessory is the skateboard bearings. These are the joint force between the skateboard and wheels and without the correct set of bearing a skateboard will not perform well.