The first board Tony Gale had on Moonshine Skateboards was the most popular pro model they’ve ever had. It required a brand new mould designed by Tony himself – a totally bi-directional double kick deck with absolutely zero concave, meaning the skater can move around more freely in footwork and have more control (and less discomfort!) in casper and no handed 50-50 tricks. A few folks were skeptical, but it worked really well.

For Tony’s second model, the shape remains unchanged – meaning you still get the narrower 7″ section in the middle for better kickflips and a longer lifespan on rail tricks, as well as the flat mould – but now it’s got a brand new graphic courtesy of Chris Alliston.

If you like fluid footwork, long lines of rolling tricks and technical caspers, this is the deck you want.

Specifications:

Length: 28″
Width: 7.3″
Wheelbase: 12″
Nose/Tail: 5.875″
Kicktail angle: 13º

We recommend Offset skid plates or Seismic skid plates to fit this board.

Looking for something a little different for your freestyle setup? FILM trucks have collaborated with the UK's Death Skateboards for a special edition truck - and they've made us some 4.25" ones to fit any freestyle deck between 7.25" and 7.4" wide.

If you've skated or seen the regular 4.25" FILM trucks, you know what to expect: high quality construction and a great turn. Only now you can do it with a little more style. Also, for bonus points, the Death Skateboards logo is glow-in-the-dark. If you're not as excited about that as we are you're obviously dead inside.

(Note that new FILM trucks have removed the old-school mounting holes on the baseplate - we just haven't updated the photos yet.)

The Seismic Focus is the most high-tech freestyle wheel ever made. Featuring Seismic's signature urethane compounds and precision hub, this is the wheel you want when speed and resilience is paramount.

Couple them with the 7-ball Tekton XT bearings for the best possible ride.

A sheet of Mob griptape, installed onto the deck of your choice by one of our skilled Griptape Technicians here at Offset HQ.

These are Seismic's new skid plates, made using some high-grade proprietary compound designed to resist wear, and tested by professional freestylers Tony Gale and Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson. They're slightly grippier than a regular skid plate, so if you find most skids a little too slippery, these are worth looking into.

They're also shaped considerably different to most skids; that curve along the bottom side gives something a little extra to lock onto for caspers, a better point to grab for airwalks and fingerflips, and reduces the overall weight by 5g compared to other skids of a similar size.

We sell them individually because some folks like leaving one end "au naturel", but buy two of these and you'll be saving money in the long term - trust us on that. Each one comes with the necessary hardware to mount it to a deck, but you will need a drill to put them on.

This particular shape works well on the Tony Gale, Lillis Åkesson, and Felix Jonsson boards from Moonshine, the Postcard from Mode Skateboards, and the tail of the Nick Beaulieu deck from Moonshine - but that deck needs a different skid for the nose.

(Don't know how to fit skid plates? Look in the description below for a handy installation guide.)

If you’re sick of cracking decks, constantly find your trucks shifting about on the deck, or all your local streets are a little too rough to push on without rattling your fillings loose, you might want some shock pads.

Once upon a time, it was pretty common for skate stores in the UK to stock rubber risers of one form or another. However, they seem to have fallen out of favour for some reason – possibly because most of them were bloody terrible (they’d mush out the sides of the baseplate, or were so soft they made your setup feel like an unresponsive marshmallow).

Luckily, we’ve fallen onto a cache of Khiro’s shock pads. These things are considerably better made than most cheap shock pads, and may well be the solution to all of life’s problems – as long as life’s problems are limited to vibration and impact damage.

Also, yes – these come as a pair. One pack will be enough for one complete skateboard. You can also pair them with other risers if you fancy building a monster truck but still want to dampen some vibration in there.

We’ve had a few calls for longer bolts lately, so we got these 1.25″ Khiro bolts for tall setups. (We can actually still get Khiro bolts up to 3″ long, so if you’re building yourself a monster truck, get in touch and we’ll help you sort it out.)

These 1.25″ bolts will let you use 9.5mm or 3/8″ risers on most setups or 6mm or 1/4″ risers with a regular 7-ply deck and Paris 108 trucks.

If you're looking for more stability in your trucks - whether that's for more predictable flip tricks or less wobble at speed - you're going to want to swap to firmer bushings instead of just cranking down the kingpin nut and demolishing the stock bushings your trucks came with.

Thankfully, Ace's AF1 Hard Bushing Kit comes with everything you need to not only get a set of Aces up to performance spec, but also upgrade many, many other brands of truck from the common double-conical bushing setup to the vastly superior (in our opinion) barrel-and-cone combo; not only do you get nice and tall lumps of high-quality urethane, but you also get perfectly sized (and solid!) washers to accommodate them.

Note that Ace claim these are 94a bushings, but our durometer registers them as 90a. As they're a brand new product, we haven't had the chance to compare them to our favourite bushings yet - that's Khiro's 95a barrel and cone setup, if anyone's curious - but once we have, we'll report back and update this.

Synopsis are a bearing brand from Los Angeles that have been making a bit of a buzz on the internet for a while, and we're proud to be the first to stock them in the UK.

These are their standard "Blue Rays" bearings - effectively a Bones Reds equivalent in terms of performance. If you're just looking for a good, sturdy bearing without breaking the bank, these are a good choice.

However, where they really shine is what comes in the box. Every pack of Synopsis Blue Rays bearings includes replacement axle nuts1, a full pack of eight speed washers, bearing spacers (which you really should use!) and, most importantly, a little bottle of bearing lubricant. No matter how thrashed your setup, these will get you rolling smoothly again - and keep you rolling smoothly for a long time.

1: We highly recommend you use an axle rethreader to clean up your axle ends before replacing damaged axle nuts; a heavily damaged axle is just going to strip and ruin the new nuts.