Building a Freestyle Skateboarding Setup

Phew. This one took some time to put together.

A few folks had asked me to walk through building a freestyle setup. Well, the release of a new single kick from Moonshine skateboards gave me the perfect excuse to whack a camera on a tripod and talk through the various components that go into a freestyle setup - and show the right way to put it all together.

So, yes. This is a very long video by the standards of this channel. Apologies for that. Hopefully you think it's worth it and find it interesting. If all you want to do is see some skating, I totally understand - head to 17:42 to watch me skate a single kick for the first time in a long while. (Spoiler alert: I laugh a lot and have a lot of fun. This deck is NICE.)

(I will also apologise for the graininess of some of this footage. It turns out my trusty old Fuji X-T1 doesn't much like shooting video at 3200ISO in dark old English cottages. WHO KNEW?)

If you're looking for a setup just like this one, head over to https://www.offsetskatesupply.co.uk - there's a "freestyle setup builder" which will let you pick out various components, safe in the knowledge they'll all go together. You don't have to worry about skid plate shapes or mixing and matching truck and deck sizes. It'll just work.

The skid plate installation video I reference while I'm building the board can be found here:    • How to install (and why you should us...  

The music in the background of the setup sections is by glaciære, and is a couple of different tracks from the album "hammock": https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/alb...

The music in the skate section is a track called L A T E N C Y by Mystery Mammal: https://www.freemusicarchive.org/musi...

Both tracks are used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. If you like the bleepy bloopy goodness, go check out the full albums linked above, because they're very good. And yes, I've been listening to too much Vaporwave since the summer disappeared. I will apologise to no one for this.

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