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How To Apply Grip Tape to a Skateboard Deck

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Decide on a Design

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your imagination is the limit for styles and designs when applying grip tape. You can grip the entire board, you can cut designs into the grip tape, or you can leave areas open to show some of the board's graphics or colors.

For these instructions, I'm using a Girl OG graphics deck, and I wanted to show the little bit of graphics that are on the top of the board. This is a super easy trick that makes your board look good.

A lot of skate decks have some small graphic right before the back trucks. This is because most of the time when skating, you won't put your feet in this area. Also, by applying the grip tape so this area shows through, it's easy to tell which end is the nose and which end is the tail of your skateboard. So, this technique should help even if you don't have any graphics there to show - you can leave a stripe showing the color on the top of your board!

Whatever design you decide on, these same techniques will be what you will use!

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