Originally Posted by
heymatthew
My wife really wants to learn to skateboard. You guys know of a good starter board for her? Something just to get around our neighborhood sidewalks on?
I'm jealous of you guys and your skateboards!!! I'm useless on a skateboard. I had severe, chronic ear infections as a child and early teenager and it has damaged my inner ear. I pretty much have zero balance, get immediately car sick and hate the ocean (which is unfortunate because I love the water). LOL!
Good starter board assuming your wife just wants to cruise around with no tricks would be a 8.5 or wider deck(brand is just preference, avoid the carbon layer hype crap), some wide trucks (149s are my preference), then some big romper gel wheels like 65mm. Thats pretty much how my beer getter is set up and it can roll over anything.