Should I Buy A Nickle Or Penny Board For Going To The Skatepark And Try Tricks

Are Penny Board skateboards good for beginners?

I have a Penny Board, a Penny Nickel Board, some skateboards and Cruisers. I started on a Penny Cruiser/Nickel (Modified) board. The only time I ever find myself riding any of the Penny boards is when it is raining. I think I learned faster and really enjoyed riding a board with a wood deck much more. I was able to get better trucks for it, and the ride was just smoother, more predictable, and responsive. Wood decks will have some concave, so your feet will feel more secure on the board. Also, I found it easier to get over cracks and sidewalks because when I leaned back on my tail, it would respond more quickly than a plastic board. I'm not as down on Penny boards as must people on Quora, but I really do think they're just not nearly as fun (or safe) to ride. I suggest http://landyachtz.com/us/boards/... as a fun alternative. It is a nice cruising board with a mellow concave (which I found made learning to turn my foot easier), and kittens are dope.Others might feel the same way, but I imagine a Penny board would be hard to get the jist of turning and what not at first. But then again I never rode one until I was about 5 years into skating so by then I could already do tricks the first time I rode one haha.If you're just looking to cruise just get a regular board with 70mm wheels. I put some on my regular board and it's so fast and smooth. A regular board would get me to work in 45 min but with the cruiser wheels it's about 30 min. And if you cn go for a fish tail board, if you dig the oldschool '70s/ penny board style.Pro Tips: invest in some risers, wheel bite sucks.Tip 2: don't push mongo, everyone will know your a noob and secretly film you on snapchat making fun of you. Not that I do this, but just trust me on this one.I’ll probably still insist you to buy one and have a feel for yourself, and then decide if it’s your style.Hope this helps mate!Cheers.

What's better for traveling, a skateboard or a pennyboard?

The two factors to consider are size of the board (which affects stability and ease of riding, particularly at speed) and hardness of the wheels (which affects both surface grip and smoothness of the ride).The Penny board is smaller than standard skateboards. I have a Stereo Vinyl Cruiser, which is effectively the same as the Penny, and while it's fun it's really a bit too twitchy for comfort. I have a Penny Nickle, which is larger than the standard Penny and roughly the size of normal skateboards. It's much better for actual travelling around than the smaller deck. In this respect, skateboards definitely beat the standard Penny.Regular skateboard wheels are much harder than the ones used on the Penny (and Penny Nickle). They suit more tricks-based uses, but they're a bit tiring – and noisy – for doing distance riding. Penny wheels are definitely winners for travelling about. You could go for softer-than-standard skateboard wheels to get the best of both worlds.Of course, you could and should also look at longboards, which typically are longer than skateboards (they tend to go from the same length up to near five feet long) and have wheels that are (a) generally softer than the skateboard norm, and (b) larger as well. This makes them superb for travelling around even on rough asphalt, and they'll roll over the kind of thing that can stop regular skateboard and Penny wheels dead. I've skated miles on longboards. Dave Cornthwaite rode across Australia on one, and others have crossed South America, Europe, Morocco, and so on.The downside is the size: being bigger they're not as easy to carry around. But they absolutely transform travelling!

Should I put skateboard wheels on a penny board?

I don’t think it really matters, I’ve had pennyboard wheels on a longboard and a skateboard. I’ve had longboard wheels on a pennyboard, the list will keep going on and on. If you find yourself falling all of time, just swap them back. Also, remember that skateboarding is a dangerous sport in itself, and you will fall plenty of times anyway. When I had my old pennyboard, I probably fell 4 times a day just from rocks and pebbles on the floor.

I'm 13 and I want to get either a penny board or a skateboard. I'm not athletic at all and I don't have a lot of experience with either of them. Which would be easier to learn to use?

Get a skateboard. Ease of learning aside it will be better for you, you will make lots of friends, you'll have something to do and practice at, you can post on the SLAP forums ;) Honestly skateboarding has way more to offer than a riding a penny board especially if you're drawn to any of that;• you'll learn to look at the streets differently• you'll meet lots of new people • many of them will become friends• you'll explore your local city search for spots Don't worry about not being athletic before you start, it will come if you keep on it. Same thing with experience. The best thing I can recommend is just skating around lots. If you need to walk the dog bring your skateboard, but don't hold the leash and expect them to pull you, if you need to get the mail ride down the driveway, skate to the store, skate to school, skate in school. The more you do it, the more you will "notice" your board and how it responds to certain things and in time everything will fall into place.

How long does it typically take a beginner to learn how to skateboard?

Short answer, if you just wanna learn how to push and ride, it will take you a couple of weeks. If you wanna learn the basics of a particular type of skating, a couple of months. If you wanna learn how to be half decent at any particular type of skating, a couple of years. However, a real skater never stops learning and getting better (until their body gives out and won’t let them anymore).Long answer, in my opinion, a lot of skateboarding is 10% muscle, 30% skill and 60% guts.However long it takes you to develop the muscles you need to physically be able to do the tricks is up to how often you work out those muscles. If you know the muscles you have to target and use the gym along with actual skating practice, this comes with time. You will be weak at pushing, pumping and popping at first but your leg and core muscles will develop over the weeks and months.Skill wise, it takes time to develop the muscle memory to move your limbs quickly enough as a reaction, rather than by thinking. Your body goes from conciously thinking “I need to move my leg like this to pop the board, and the other leg like this along with flicking my foot to flick the board and then I have to keep looking at the board and time my landing” to “I’m kickflipping this 6 set” as it happens.This takes longer than developing the actual muscle in a lot of cases. E.g. It will take you longer to learn to tré flip than it will take you to develop the muscles to be able to tré. You probably already have enough leg muscle to tré but you certainly haven’t got the muscle memory yet.The hardest thing, and the thing that, depending on personality, either comes most naturally or will take the longest to train your body to do, is to convince your brain that it’s a good idea to fly down a giant ramp, or a set of stairs, or onto a rail. Your natural response is to survive, and putting yourself in dangerous positions is counter-intuitive to this.It is literally all up to how often you practice and of course your natural propensity to balance and persevere. Also, if you injure yourself badly, you can’t practice so you’ll be out of the game and take longer to get better overall.