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The cheaper alternative to the more expensive plastic skateboards produced by Australian brand Penny are these smaller and more streamlined boards produced by a brand called fish. Now, I have tried skateboarding before on a cheap and sketchy quality board as part of a showbag and it let me down fantastically. I measured up the dimensions for these boards by Fish and it turns out they're even smaller than that crappy board. The price difference between Penny and Fish plastic skateboards is some $90 AUD but if I am going to buy one of these boards and take the plunge I do want to have a chance of using it and become a good skateboarder (or at least scooting around a little easier on campus).
In some strange bower bird, primal urge I love things made of plastic including cameras and skateboards as well as prison issue rosaries and small charms from the 1940s. I will not be overpowered by this trance of plastic and I will be smart about this! Tomorrow I plan to watch a few videos and scour through some reviews properly of the boards from fish and when I start refereeing basketball on a regular basis again I'll only be blowing a shift's work of pay if things don't work out. I may even have a nice little trophy and reminder how lazy and uncoordinated I am.
Hot pink and blue wheels is the coolest thing I've ever seen and getting to be seen holding this bad boy may be worth all the falls, scabs and bruises I am sure to earn if I ever do start to skateboard.
While picnicking in the park with my friends, we saw many parents with young children playing on the playground as well as travelling near and far on bicycles and even one little boy had a small plastic skateboard. I couldn't help but have my interested peaked again and later went home to discover Penny Skateboards, sold on the New Zealand online store Good as Gold. I was delighted to finally see an Australian brand supported by this fantastic online store but I don't regret not buying one of these little boards for roughly $150- there are a few good looking boards on eBay at the moment and I'm keen to try one out.
For one reason or another, my best friend Christened another of my good friends with the nickname 'Penny' since her last name is Nicholls and since my best friend can be quite hard-headed sometimes she persisted with the nickname in measures that might be accurately described as 'extreme'. Including changing her name on the roll for out Literature class and all of us girls were delighted to hear our monotonous English teacher call her Penelope one lesson. So from my personal experiences, Penny does make a good friend and peer but how does she handle when being ridden on footpaths and roads?
I've had an on-off relationship with skateboards and once even attempted to skate to my father's workplace on a board of terrible showbag quality. Apparently, the smaller a board is, the harder it is to ride and many people these days favour longboards but just how much would I have to pay for something like that? The campus of my university is simply huge and I don't really want to risk being late or getting lost to any of my tutorials or lectures so maybe, by some minor miracle I can gain enough coordination to handle a board and travel around the campus that way?
The Penny Australia skateboards come in a range of colour combinations including my favourite, purple and while I do hope that I can actually master skateboarding at some stage in my life they would also make a neat decoration in someone's room being made of all plastic. They could certainly keep my all-plastic cameras such as the Holga and the Diana company too. If you're not willing to shell out $150 on a Penny skateboard, there is also another brand called Fish who deliver the same time of plastic and streamline thin board in plastic colours.
At the age of about eleven or so I really did want to learn how to skateboard and travel by wheels but from my experiences snowboarding I can only imagine a skateboard being more perilous and I also fell down quite a lot when I was snowboarding. It's been years since I've fallen over and been a scabby mess and since I'm a girl too I have to watch out for my pretty face as well as my teeth. As great as owning one of these boards would be, there are some dangers to riding them.
The cheaper alternative to the more expensive plastic skateboards produced by Australian brand Penny are these smaller and more streamlined boards produced by a brand called fish. Now, I have tried skateboarding before on a cheap and sketchy quality board as part of a showbag and it let me down fantastically. I measured up the dimensions for these boards by Fish and it turns out they're even smaller than that crappy board. The price difference between Penny and Fish plastic skateboards is some $90 AUD but if I am going to buy one of these boards and take the plunge I do want to have a chance of using it and become a good skateboarder (or at least scooting around a little easier on campus).
