Skate Safe

Skateboard User Manual and Safety Guide

Warning:

Skate safely! For best protection, wear a safety-certified helmet, as well as knee, elbow, wrist protection and flat-soled shoes. Skateboarding is a dangerous activity. Avoid high speeds and downhill sections. Even at low speeds, serious injury or death can occur.

Use of safety gear, taking lessons, riding responsibly within your skill level and abilities, as well as using common sense, can all reduce the risk of serious injuries or death. Know how to stop your skateboard before you start skating. Never hitch a ride from a car, bus, truck, bicycle, or any vehicle. Follow all traffic and pedestrian rules. Stay out of water and check all nuts and bolts periodically for proper adjustment and tightness. Replace worn parts as needed.

Skateboarding accidents happen, so you should always know what to do in emergency situations. Don’t panic. Call 911 (North America), 112 (Europe), or your regional emergency number in your specific country for medical assistance or an ambulance.

Instructions for use:

Before each use ensure you are wearing the appropriate safety gear.

Choose to skateboard in designated recreational areas or empty places which allow you plenty of room and the ability to improve your skills. Stay away from traffic and crowds. Follow all traffic and pedestrian rules.

Children under 8 years of age should be supervised at all times when skateboarding.

To brake take one foot off the board and then drag to reduce speed.

Steer your board by leaning left to go left, and right to go right. Loosen or tighten your trucks to give you more or less leverage as needed when steering. Be careful not to loosen too much, making sure the locking nut on the kingpin is engaged. Be careful not to tighten too tight where the trucks do not properly turn.

Remember to skate at a speed you are comfortable with and to understand your own ability level.

Learn everything slowly, including new tricks. When losing balance don’t wait until you fall, step off and start again. Ride down gentle slopes at first. Only ride slopes where your speed is only as fast as you can run off the board without falling.

Before jumping off the skateboard understand where it may go as it could injure someone else.

Most serious skateboard injuries are broken bones so learn to fall (by rolling if possible) without the skateboard first.

Skateboarders starting to learn should try with a friend or parent. Most bad accidents happen in the first month.

Do not skate in the rain, mud, dirt, grass, or uneven surfaces as those conditions may cause you to slip or fall. Skate on clean, dry, smoothly paved or concrete surfaces.

Join a club or get skateboarding lessons in your area and learn more. Prove you are a good skateboarder and care about yourself and others.

Maintenance instructions:

Do not modify or alter this skateboard other than replacing worn components with new compatible components. Altering or modifying can impair safety.

Regularly check the deck and all components. Regular maintenance enhances the safety of the equipment.

Be sure that all nuts and bolts are properly tightened.

Self-locking nuts and other self-locking fixings can loosen and lose their effectiveness. Regularly tighten and replace immediately when worn.

Check the deck and all components for splinters, cracks, and chips. Remove any sharp edges created through general use. Replace the deck or any individual components when worn.

Maintain your bearings and keep them clean. Make sure they spin freely. You can lightly oil the bearing but too much oil can attract dirt. Over time bearings will need to be replaced as part of normal wear. This board will accept upgraded bearings.

Replace the wheels and truck cushions when worn. Check wheels for flat spots and truck threads for wear and replace those components when worn.

Store in a clean and dry environment. Avoid skating in the rain, mud, dirt, or grass as these and other conditions are unsafe and may damage the skateboard and its components.