With all the new companies making skateboard decks and accessories its hard to know which brands are the best. If you have been skating for awhile you have already found out that it really comes down to personal prefrence. But you have to start somehwere and why waste money.A complete skateboard consists of several different parts. The deck, griptape, trucks, wheels and berings. Also there is hardware which means the nuts and bolts that hold the trucks onto the deck and the wheels onto the truck.