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Hubba is a skateboard wheel company that has sponsored many professional skateboarders over the years. Hubba has a product line of more than 30 different wheel models. Along with wheel models, Hubba also sells a variety of soft goods, for example T-shirts and calendars, as well as specially designed skateboard grip tape, and colored skateboard hardware.
Kryptonics Skateboards is an American manufacturer of Skateboards and Longboards founded in 1965 and originally manufactured polyurethane products for the mining and computer industry. In the mid-1970s, the company introduced the Kryptonics Star Trac line of wheels that drastically changed the functionality of skateboards.
The wheels allow for movement on the skateboard and helps determine the speed while riding. [12] There are typically four wheels on a skateboard that are attached to the trucks. Ranging in size from around 48mm to around 60mm, smaller wheels are lighter in weight and are used for shorter distances and tricks. [13]
ESPN Extreme Games (released in Japan as ESPN Street Games) is a game released for the PlayStation in 1995. A version was released for MS-DOS a short time later. The game featured all the sports included in the Summer X-Games of 1995, but it did not feature events such as the half pipe in skateboarding.
Deathwish Skateboards logo is the cross symbol sported by the Street Punk Gang in the movie Death Wish 3. In 2016, Deathwish released a line of seven decks entitled VHS Wasteland . The 8.5 size team deck of this series shows a picture of Charles Bronson and his gun taken from the Death Wish movie as an obvious reference to their namesake.
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Street skateboarding: Skating on streets, curbs, benches, handrails or other elements typically found in urban and suburban landscapes. Ramps, rails, boxes and other man-made obstacles, especially in competition, are also referred to as "street" because they simply emulate a perfect "street" environment.
A freeboard typically has six wheels: four normal longboard-style wheels at each corner and two spring-locked center wheels. The wheels on the central axis are able to turn freely in all directions, allowing the board to "slide" laterally provided none of the four corner wheels are touching the ground.