Wander into any big store's toy section, and you can find an area devoted to Tech Decks. These are little toy skateboards that have real skate company brands and graphics on them. A few years back, I tore my ACL (that's in your knee, and it sucks to have to tear), and a girl bought me a Habitat tech deck board to play with, since I couldn't skate for several months. It was one of the coolest gifts I'd ever been given!
When people are really good at Tech Deck, they can do all kinds of finger tricks with their Teck Deck skateboards. You can also use very small skate tools that come with some of the sets to take your board apart, swap parts, and even tighten or loosen the trucks.
For the toy side of it, you can get all kinds of Teck Deck related stuff like figures to put on the boards, small plastic skateparks, and all kinds of other stuff.
So if your skater is a kid, some of these toys might make great gifts. And if you skater is a big kid (say, 13 to 35), getting him or her a Tech Deck board from a brand that they like is a great, small, simple gift. You can usually get a pack of four Tech Deck finger boards for around $15, and single boards are a lot less. If you want to buy one online, compare prices on Tech Decks here.
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i tore my acl and im only 11. skateboarding is my favorite thing. it sucks. you dont get to do anything! but ya tech decks are really keeping me in.
they make wooden teck decks now. they’re way cooler than plastic ones. bummer on the tearing the acl