Transition and Vert decks
If you like to skate in half pipes or pools your deck should be about 8.25″ to about 8.5″ wide. The wider the deck the more stable it usually is.

Street Decks
The best size for street skating is about a 7.5″-8.25″wide decks. The width of the deck (weather it is a street deck, a vert deck, or a deck to just cruise around on) you should get will depend on your shoe size. If you have big feet you should get a wider deck, but if you have smaller feet should get a deck that’s smaller in width. I ride a 7.75 inch wide deck, and wear a 11 in men’s size shoes. The smaller the board the is the easier it will be to do flip tricks, but it may be harder to keep your balance.

Vert and Street decks are the two main kind of decks, but you can use any size board you want to to go skate a pool, ollie down some stairs, or to drop in on Bob Burnquist’s mega ramp (I have never skated down a mega ramp or plan to, but using my experience with bombing hills I would think you would want a wider deck with decent sized wheels). There are other types of decks like helium, bamboo, carbon fiber, and so on. These decks usually cost a little bit more than the good ol’ Canadian maple decks that most pro decks are made from, but those boards do have their advantages (with helium boards you can ollie a little higher, carbon fiber decks are strong and have more pop as well, and the list goes on).

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