Cruisers, longboards, they're all just special kinds of skateboards, right? Not exactly. What we typically call skateboards are broken into three main categories: longboard, cruiser, and skateboard, ...

"You'll be fine," they said. "It's much harder to fall off this than the RipStik Electric." The PR people obviously remembered that a year ago at the London Toy Fair I'd tried riding that device, but ...

Best Surf-Inspired Skateboard: A quick glance at the Ambassador longboard and it’s obvious: these guys surf and skate. Described as “the perfect beginner board” because of its broad deck space, it’s ...

I ride a skateboard just about every day — to and from the subway going to work, and recreationally on the weekends. In an ideal world, I’d like to cruise all the way to work and not step foot on a ...

The Chub is a new style of skateboard that’s comfortable to ride barefoot, stable for beginners and has plenty of pop for seasoned skaters. Its creators describe the Chub as a “beach cruiser ...

It's much like any other good-quality cruiser skateboard with one exception – two magnets are recessed into holes in the top/front of its North American hard maple deck. When the board is picked up ...

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