If you have an ultra-smooth surface and 125 mm wheels that are hard then the ONLY thing that will prevent you going fast is WIND RESISTANCE. Forget the bearings and wear the proper suit. If you are going at speeds where bearings make a difference then you cannot skate fast enough and you should improve your physical condition.

Boots can make a difference - see: carbon shell

i just started skating a couple months back and i love everything about your channel.

It seems like so many people are put off from skating because of the complexity of cleaning bearings. I think I’ll start with your way of doing it and maybe get into servicing them eventually

Imagine they have bigger bearings atleast the size of keychain ring size bearings...i t ll be REMARKABLE.

Thanks for the info! I have Them boots and Kaltik frames that I’m trying to build off of and I want to maintain them as well as I can.

Thank you for this! You were very thorough and I can tell you’re very passionate about the gear. Keep killing it!

o.o' why the hell wouldn't you use sealed bearings for freeskate??? that's when your gonna be experiencing the most amount of dirt and grime buildup... high quality bearings are much better for the park.... its usually cleaner and you benefit the most from even the smallest speed boost when your trying to pull a 1080 over a launch box

Not inline but I did used to skateboard a parking garage with friends a lot. One day when I just had too much money in my wallet, I bought some swiss bones ceramic bearings. It was a 6 story parking garage. I instantly became by far the fastest skater there. I had them over a year and people with brand new red bones bearings still couldn't touch me. When doing downhill, gravity is doing the pushing and it is constant.

I'm basically a beginner. Went from ABEC 5 & 7 to ILQ-9. So much difference, I'll never go back.

Very nice video. Great explanations and helpful guide to wheels, bearings and frames.

Really interesting and useful tips! Thanks from a 34yo beginner from Spain! Thanks and keep it up!

Greeting from New Zealand mate. Im new to al this and I have spent the whole day reading and watching videos about bearings and their replacements, had never heard of any of it until today when I need to replace it! great, excellent video I watched it to the very last minute. Thanks again.

wonderful and honest explanation, thanks a lot

I changed the factory bearings on my Nils Janssons m12 charcoal aggressives to Bones

In my scant almost-year I’d blading I’ve made a number of discoveries, both for my own good and for sharing knowledge for those who have different tastes than I. One big one, like you say here is bearings but I first always address the spacers a person has. Usually I find it’s the spacer that is the main culprit of slowing things down (I confess I carry my tools and other goods in my skate bag) and so thus, I help out and fix or identify it to the person in question. When it comes to bearings, I feel that’s more of a “preference” question. I’ve tried many bearings to more or less success. The only time when I’ve really noticed a difference was when I went from ABEC5 to Swiss. As a personal observation, I find (for aggressive) that a happy middle ground is the best. Currently I am rolling on THEM ABEC7 and I can’t complain given the price, performance and durability. I find pricy bearings tend to lean to extending the overall lifespan, thus they are regularly the serviceable variety.

generic sealed bearings have grease in them that slows them down (still rolls fine but not for too long, it's for other applications), you can remove one of the shields (never both of course) and use a solvent like kerosene or acetone and let it sit overnight to remove the factory grease, next day you dry them, apply a bit of machine oil and it'll spin as long as a bones reds (they come dry from factory, that's why they spin so much more freely)

Hey bud!! If you wanna try 60mm bullet profile wheels try the undercover Werbeski. And let me know how it goes. I got the Enin ones and I love them!

Great video, I am struggling with speed and a lack of it, I skate concrete parks only and have the roces red fifth elements, I upgraded from Abec 5 to 7 and they still feel slow, I need more speed asap, any suggestions on what bearings and wheels I should buy? The wheels are 60mm 93A HQ compound wheels, they feel a little hard.

Thanks for the video! I feel like my abec 7 wheels slow me down a lot:( especially when I screw them in really tight, but I also don’t want them to be loose...) any ideas?