hey.
Im trying to pull together a board to learn on, im a beginner, but I want something which will be light but strong.
I have an old deck that i bought when i was a little kid cause i thought it was cool (hahahaha!) It's a world industries liteweights 3 deck

do you think this is a good choice for me? I know NOTHING about boards!
Also, what should i do for wheels and bearings?

Im used to longboarding (I skate my longboard EVERYWHERE)

Peace
H

A great deal depends on your budget, how much you planning to spend?

And i would avoid world decks, overpriced crap is an understatement.

Well I already have the deck so i just need trucks, wheels, and bearings. I have 60 quid to spend

Hahah! Yeah i went through a 'THPS' phase when i was young, I had a tantrum cause my mum wouldnt buy me a skateboard on holiday, then i found 50 dollars at the bottom of a swimming pool and went and bought it straight away :D my best mate got a skateboard too and we learnt together. A month later he was 360 fliping, I was so jealous that i gave up. He's now won a few local comps in paris where he now lives, and is on his way to become pro, the bastard

Well I already have the deck so i just need trucks, wheels, and bearings. I have 60 quid to spend

Get a pair of Krux/ Tensor trucks, Blank wheels and Bones Reds bearings. Altogether that should come to around £60.

Thanks for the advice, but I went to my girlfriends house today and her brother overheard me saying that i was going to buy some trucks and wheels and he goes 'oh you can have mine if you want i havnt used my board in months!
So he gave me a set of tensors with wheels and bearings for free! so now Im all sorted out with my first board:)

You lucky bastard. Anyways have fun skating!

if your mate to learnt how to tre flip in a month he either lied to you and could skate before or theres something wrong with him.. most people i meet it takes them a good two years of skating to get tre flips properly down..

This guy is strange, he was snowboarding black runs on his second day boarding.
He came mountainboarding with me and went from beginner slope straight to the professional boarderx track which took me a year and a half.
he did agressive blading before he started skateboarding, he dropped in on a 6ft mini ramp after an hour at the park, two weeks later he was going up the mini ramp and doing handstands, walking along on his hands, and dropping back into the ramp.
He learnt drums and became teaching grade in just over a year.
Hes that kind of person who can catch on to anything just like that, probably because when he gets an idea in his head he just practices at it solidly every second he can.
As you can tell, he is my nemesis, I am SO jealous of him hahah!
I'll have to get him to send me some pics of him skating.
Peace
H

P.S. Starting to get used to skating a normal board now, gonna go practice ollies in the street and annoy the neighbors:D

hey man i started sk8ing like a year ago and i got 360 flips down bout 2 months in

learing oldschool now tis well fun , the best bit about oldschool is bonless trix well fun not so technical but looks good and is fun .

ppl keep sk8ing for fun learn the oldschool .

as for board buying help you sound like me , i bought a second hand board at kelvengrove boardwise £2
skeebed the trucks and wheels and sk8 like that all the time , skeeb things when you can you can never have enough spares as i learned today sk8ing in the rain .

well have fun , tip for your speed learning never give up on something cos you cant do it and always take advice from ppl who know what they are doing , get in with the better sk8ers (they like helping noobs i found that out myself ) keep it up and keep it cool , and if your scottish dont mind the neds they just wanna change as for rodney mulled being legend your wrong , hes fucking god :P:P