How To Find The Cheapest Skateboard Gear Online For The Best Price. Relationship Tests Galore! How good are they? Which one is for me?.
The key to buying is to know what you want. That sounds obvious, but there are so many things to consider when buying a product that it's easy to get lost in the information superhighway that is the Internet.
So, before you perform an Internet search for "skateboard online shop", or something like that, try searching for "about skateboarding" first. This will bring up websites filled with all the information you need to know. Read up on the history of the sport, the tricks, the boards, the gear. Work out what sort of skateboarding you want to do. Do you want to skateboard at a ramp, or on the street?
Do you want to do tricks or just cruise around? Your answers will play a big role in choosing the type of board that will be best for you.So, once you decide on the type of skateboarding you want to do you'll be able to better match the type of deck (board) that's for you. There are so many skateboard decks to choose from. They come in various shapes and sizes and differing weights and strengths. There are flatter decks or more concave decks. There's a deck for everyone.
Skateboard manufacturing companies are always looking to improve board design, so you'll find decks made of plastic or fiberglass, but the most popular type of deck is a wooden deck.
The brand names abound: Element, Tony Hawk (the Michael Jordan of skateboarding), Girl, Habitat, Santa Cruz, Toy and Enjoi, to name a new. An Internet search will bring up the relevant websites. Browse through and read about board technology, sizes, shapes.
The most popular deck is the standard 7 ply maple deck. The Habitat "Skylite" board is made of 5 ply maple, which makes it lighter, while the Element "Fiberlight" has a strip of fiberglass, which according to the company website, makes it able to better "withstand intense abuse".
The width of the deck is also important.
Wider decks (over 8") are more suitable for transition/vert work, while street tricks demand a narrower board. If you want to do both then an 8" deck is a good starting choice. If you just want to cruise around a wider board is more comfortable.Skateboards have wheels, and wheels come in a variety of colors, sizes and degrees of hardness. Read up on wheel diameter (height of wheel) and durometer (hardness of wheel). In short, remember that wheel size means speed and wheel hardness means stability.
Shopping for skateboarding deals online is so easy if you take your time. Type "skateboard offers" into your favorite search engine and start browsing and comparing prices. Sites like Skateboard.com and Skatewarehouse.com are good places to start.
While you are there think about getting yourself a pair of skate shoes. Speciality shoes will make your riding experience easier and safer. Skate shoes have a large flat bottom which is better able to grip the board. Some have heel airbags and gel pads for added safety. Also, think about getting yourself a helmet and other protective gear. It's not silly, it's smart.
Dean Erickson. Journalist, and web site builder Dean Erickson lives in Texas. He is the owner and co-editor of http://gear.skateboard-centralpark.com on which you will find a longer, more detailed version of this article.
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Just about every match making site and relationship ezine offers relationship or personality tests of some kind.
Are they any good?
What do they really measure?
Which one is right for me?
As with most queries I went to the web for answers, but to my surprise even my favorite article sites came up empty. No articles about the value or benefits of the myriad of tests. So I reached back to my former life as a psychotherapist and dusted off my mental assessment file.
First let's differentiate between personality tests [or assessments as they are more technically known] and the common on-line relationship tests. The former are at times associated with clinical assessments used for diagnostic purposes that is assisting professionals in the treatment of mental or behavioral problems. Where as the more common Myers-Briggs, Enneagram and DISC tests are used primarily for personal understanding and to improve communication between people. These assessments have wide spread use and when applied well can have significant impact on how people work together in both personal and work relationships. However, these tend to be pricey, long and stiff.
Imagine for a moment you and your partner arrive in a foreign country. Neither of you speak the language, a loaf of bread costs 35 pesos [you have no idea how that translates into your currency] and the public toilet is the wall, any wall. Getting from the airport to your hotel is a major adventure and takes 2 hours in a tiny open-air three-wheeled vehicle. The point is you are out of your comfort zone you cannot communicate and even the simplest task becomes daunting.
We spend much of our time in relationships as if we were in a foreign country, groping around not communicating well and getting hopelessly lost at times. Relationship tests, at least the good ones, can provide that common language, that ability to communicate and get along in the environment.
Let me explain by using a really humorous example:
We used [back in the day of paper and pencil tests] what we call Awareness Tools to help people in relationship understand themselves and each other better. Here is the story: Chris a financial advisor who heads up a rather impressive team of staff was asked by his manager to have his whole team profiled. That is, each was to take our Awareness Tools with the goal being increased productivity because of improved communication. Anyway, Chris did this grudgingly writing "this is a bunch of ...." on his &test booklet.' Later during our consultation to discuss the results with his team Jon, the very astute sales assistant laughingly says, "This profile is right on, I saw you bust that pencil." Yup, Chris had been accurately pegged as quite the hot head and his whole team knew it. The good thing is Chris realized they knew it and this freed him and them up to face reality and use their newly discovered &language' afforded them by the Awareness Tools to really communicate with each other.
That was in days gone by now everything is done on-line [our tools included] and results are instantaneous so none of us has an excuse. No, none of us has an excuse not to find that &common language' via one or many relationship tests.
Wendy and Chris [same name, different fella] during the early stages of their life together took a relationship test to help them understand their hopes and dreams and the core values that drove them. It was an eye-opening experience as they became aware of their differences, but more importantly finding commonalities in their before unspoken dreams. The result: clear direction, life purpose and probably even more valuable than that ~ dogged determination to succeed.
So the next time you get an invitation to take a test in your inbox or you find one on a website, be daring, take it and get your partner to take it and watch what happens.
Remember, life is short and relationships should be FUN!
Margrit Harris, Your Relationship Expert, is a former Team Relationship Consultant for First Union Securities [now Wachovia], Morgan Stanley, and many small business owners and professionals. She was a marriage and family therapist for several years as well.
Today Margrit offers free relationship advice on-line, writes articles for Horsesmouth [an on-line service for financial advisors] and makes money selling her Relationship Tests [called Awareness Tools] check them out at http://www.stratateam.com/WhyitWorks.asp.
Soon her Relationship Principles e-books [for Life and Business Partners] and other stuff to make bad relationships good and good relationships great will also be available at http://www.stratateam.com
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