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you can use one but you can buy skateboard tools easily which are also easier to use

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no you do not have to or you can pick up the tail and turn

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Q: Do you have to loosen your trucks to turn on a skateboard?
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What skateboard wheels are easier to turn on?

Wheels dont make a skateboard easier to turn on the skateboard trucks do that.


Is there a way to make skateboards turn easier and sharper?

The skateboard doesn't do anything to turn. What makes it turn is the trucks and to make turning more responsive you need to loosen the trucks with a special kind of tool. it depends what truck you have you can loosen them with pliyers or an Allen key it depends what trucks you have if there cheap they wont turn lol


How do you make a skateboard turn more easily?

If you're having trouble turning left or right..I would suggest you loosen your trucks on the board and then get a feel to how loose or tight you want the board.


What are 'bushings' on a skateboard and where do they go?

Bushing are usually the little white things iside of your trucks.... its your bushing that are being tightened when you tighten your trucks


How do you control a skateboard?

On turns, you use leaning to control it. The trucks allow this. The rubber things inside them regulate the turn.


Why does my satellite skateboard turn badly?

Probably because the trucks are to tight. The lighter you are the looser the trucks should be. It could possibly be that you just are trying to turn the correct way go to you tube and learn to steer.


Do you have to loosen your trucks to turn a skate board?

You can either loosen the bolt holding the trucks to the base of the board, or you can buy a longboard skateboard, which will turn a hundred times better than you could make any street skateboard turn.


What is the best skateboard trucks?

i say the best trucks in the world ventures trucks cause i have them and they are really good and have good endurance!


What skateboard trucks are there in Singapore?

None


How many trucks does a skateboard have?

TWo


What are skateboard trucks made of?

metal :)


Is there any place this skateboard can be taken to be fixed it curves left when ridden?

Dude, loosen or tighten your trucks - until you get a good feel - Get a skate tool or a cresent/wrench, etc.