Many extreme sports have evolved from skateboarding projects. The earliest skateboards were mounted on wooden boards by enthusiasts, and slowly developed into today's skateboards, which have now become the coolest sports on earth.
Skateboards are suitable for a wide range of people. Skateboarders in the world are as young as 3 years old and as old as 60 years old. There are relevant records of skateboarding. The main skateboarders are between 6-30 years old, and teenagers are the main force. Skateboarding is a sport suitable for men and women of all ages, but different people are suitable for different ways of playing.
Skateboarding can play a very good role in exercising the body. Skateboarding can exercise the whole body and improve cardiopulmonary function, which is very meaningful for health. Let's take a closer look at the benefits of skateboarding.
1. Improve confidence
Skateboarding can test people's psychological quality, can become more confident in the long-term training process, and can also stimulate people's spirit of challenge. Skateboarding is mainly in open spaces in parks or in squares, and there are generally more people, which can enhance self-confidence. Skateboarding can also enhance people's ability to be frustrated and exercise people's willpower.
2. Strengthen physical fitness
Skateboarding mainly pushes the skateboard to slide through waist twisting and frequent foot movements, so as to achieve the purpose of exercising the whole body. Skateboarding can improve cardiopulmonary function and exercise coordination. However, it is necessary to exercise in moderation, and it should not be too intense. Moderate exercise can reduce bone loss.
3. Enhance balance ability
Skateboarding can exercise leg muscles, enhance body coordination and balance, and exercise people's endurance and coordination. Practicing skateboarding can also improve people's agility. After a period of exercise, we can obviously feel that our agility is faster.
If we are ready to learn to skateboard, it is impossible to just buy a skateboard and start, we need to make some preparations in advance. Now, let's take a look at the precautions for beginners to skateboard.
1. Buy a regular skateboard
A regular skateboard is easier to learn than a toy board, and it's also much safer. The first obvious difference between a toy board and a regular skateboard is the price. Regular skateboards are generally more expensive than toy boards. Don't buy toy boards for cheap, it's quite dangerous.
2.With a pair of skateboard shoes
The so-called skateboard shoes are skateboard shoes. If the economic capacity is insufficient, as long as the soles are flat shoes, they can be used to practice skating, because it is convenient for the human body to control the balance. The follow-up advanced requirement is to buy some professional skateboarding shoes, which will be more conducive to the novice's perception and control of skateboarding.
3. Equipped with protective gear
There are many veterans who think that the protective gear is useless, but in fact skateboarding is a dangerous sport, and beginners are extremely prone to injury. Since novices do not know how to protect themselves, they will fall very hard. Therefore, no matter what you do, safety must be the most important, and protective gear is also essential for novices.
4. Mental preparation
Skateboarding is not something you can play in a day, and progress will be accompanied by countless falls and injuries. You must be mentally prepared and prepared, do what you can, and don't do things beyond your ability. Only slowly, our skateboarding technology can improve fast.