Walmart's "Professional" Skateboards 

I feel the “a lot of people that start skating fall off and move on to different things.” I had two good friends that got me into skating and now I’m the only one that still skates, at least often

I'm curious how the DarkStar Walmart boards skate. They said the reason they sell them at walmart is for the unfortunate kids who's parents don't know any better.

I had to start with a Walmart board because my dad was unsure if I would actually stick with it . He told me if I learned a kickflip he would buy me a professional board, took me a year but I did it and he took me to get my brand new board . Get your kid a board from a skate shop . If they don't stick with it give the board to a kid who wants it 🤙👊

Wow, the wm "Professional" board resists doing tricks and is just as good as a $15 dollar complete, yet it is $70. It must be close to impossible for a beginner to learn tricks with, as even you struggled with it.

I hope you read comments on multi week old videos... I failed to learn to ollie after around 60 hours of practice over the course of three weeks. Thus, I gave up learning to do any tricks when I was around 16 years old. Now I just longboard for travel occasionally. Personally, the skating is actually the part I come to your videos for the least: I like learning about your business, seeing your grind, experiencing your life with you. You are in all honesty the only vlogger I have ever remotely cared to follow, and in your youtube videos I would rather see your struggle to get good content rather than the good content you put on instagram. Seeing everything you go through in order to maintain your sponsorships on top of all your passion projects and home life has been enjoyable to witness, and an inspiration. You sure as hell aren't inspiring me to get back on a board, unlike so many of the people I've seen in your comments, but by Ra you're inspiring me like crazy to reinvent some of the ventures I've been working on in order to live a bit more carefree in life. I really don't know how you find such inspiration. My guess is all the great culture and people you manage to surround yourself with, because that seems to be the one thing drastically missing from my life. I want to meet you some day and we will make cool art together.

i got a gently used, but probably several years old, world industries complete and was blown away at the quality. the trucks seemed like they would be good but the bushings disintegrated from dry-rot as soon as i tried to ride it, so i put some old grindkings on it. they were world industries trucks with the devil face in the baseplate, the hangar seems kinda beefy though. had 52 mm soft wheels on it that i actually liked, but bearings were kinda shit. i'm still riding the board months later. i'm 6'3 240, i've almost noseslid through a ply and it still skates nice. and it's only 7.4-7.5 wide, i can't believe it hasn't broken.

Glad to hear about the future drops and you really finding a healthy and happy direction for yourself! Keep killing it! -Sam Hopper

You’re the reason I got back into skateboarding, I would Like to thank you

Love you John been watching you for YEARS since before you had to move from that apartment because that guy tried to rob you and I love seeing what you’ve done with your life cause it’s motivation for what I can do for mine so thank you and PROGRESS DAILY

19:17 i’ll fw whatever content you’re making

ive been skating a 30 dollar walmart board for as long as i remember and i managed to learn moving ollies

yo are one of my biggest inspirations i watch your videos all the time it would be wild if you came to the colorado springs skatepark

Yo I’m a young 10 yo boarder thanks to u I avoided things like this because of ur vids thanks

CONGRATS ON 1M BTWW

Its a W day when John posts

dark star boads skate hella good so idk what yall talkin bout

I remember Big5 way back in the day selling world industries trucks and wheels!! 🤣🤣🤣

Hey John, I watched your video you made a while back about Birmingham AL's "skatepark" and how it wasnt good. I really think you should consider trying out the brand new park that just got built. It's the 5th biggest in the U.S. and its awesome.

John Hill is clearly one of the best just in general respect!

I wonder if he checked the tightness of the axles before skating because I know a lot of the “commercial” skateboard brand just tighten everything down super har so it isn’t to fast or falls apart

Please do a review on a retrospec $30 board. I've been wanting to get into skating for awhile and finally bought a cheap starter board at Home Goods and I got that.

"Lets throw out the board" immediately "dude this feels horrible" 😂😂😂😂

Just for backend dev and analytics sake; The Algorithm pushed your content to me yesterday for seemingly no reason, and I've watched like 30 of your videos since then. I don't watch ANY sports content. Most of my feed is coding, weird music, and one single video game + a bunch of game dev content. Now, I'm subbed and will be liking the videos you post before I even watch them. You've made my top ten list of creators in a single evening. I take my mental exploitation by this platform pretty seriously (I consume around 18 hours of youtube every single day) so that should give my opinion a little weight.

"Dude it feels horrible" lmao

I'm getting a box from CCS on monday thanks to one of the homies, super stoked!!!

Thank you for the content John 😌

You should do a vid of just a regular $100 complete form a skate shop and see how it skates

I definitely heard it the whole time, thought it was your microphone. Drove me nuts by the end lol!

Hey John how about you try to put trucks on a regular hard piece of wood and compare it to skating the walmart board

Really looking forward to your travels and collabs!

The packing of that Revive skateboard box satisfies my OCD in a way I can't describe lol!

Hey john i just got my first skateboard from revive and im really exited but whats youre biggest way to stay on that grind of skating . Ps if you dont answer this its okay

Often times Tillys has 30% off complete toy machines and elements and bakers products. Not too shabby for $60 to $70 bucks out the door. The bearings are usually abec 5s too.

Hey John, Love your videos, I watch almost daily right after work to decompress. Side note, we need more Merch!! I’m am super into your Brand motto Progress Daily. Sometimes it seems like too much to do everything all at once but if we make little moves every day it will build!!

Cool Revive decks and Force wheels for the summer! Also, excited for collabs and travel, love seeing you killing spots/parks with frands!

is the walmart boards good for just cruising around the city?

Thanks for the life updates, sounds like you have a lot of exciting stuff coming along!

So what I’m hearing from this collab segment is there will be a new Jam Invasion video 👀

The way you said “yay” after the first successful 50-50 is exactly what I do when I land something that took way too many tries. Yaaaaaay 🙄

That black and white Revive board is Siiiiiick!

Lets go a part 2

Appreciate you dude! So glad you're stoked on the new line!

i found with the problem with the bearings is that they have dried from sitting on the shelves/in a warehouse for so long, a bit of lube and they get better, i still have my og £15 board from over a decade ago and it wasnt bad as a cruser

Watauga was my first ever skatepark I went to that was a few days ago! What did you think of it?

I forget that John is an insanely talented skater and he says theese boards suck while skating at my level😭

Test out the Yocaher complete Skateboard from Amazon it's the best cheap Amazon board.

christian is fucking insane dude, watauga is my local park and i see him every time dude is so good

You the best RU-vidr

I got one of these boards for my first board and I had it for a month before the truck snapped. I thought I didn't like skating but i was able to try some of the local's boards and they are SO much better

Quote of the day, "I am a professional skateboarder that cannot do a basic 50/50 on this board."

I know you probably won’t see this, but do you have any tips for doing Ollie’s while moving? I can do them pretty high while standing, but not while moving. Thanks!

I got a pretty good new skateboard for 65€ which is like 80 dollars I think but it is like an actual skateboard not cheap stuff and I can compare it to my friends board which is around 150€. Always look out for sales in skateshops.

I miss you hanging out with Sam. You guys have good chemistry on camera and personalities mesh will.

The Walmart boards pop sound is always a low pitched thud and it reminds me of waterlogged decks.

*I want to see john review a Walmart darkstar world industries or cal 7*

Target has "Maple" skateboards!!

I'm surprised the board has withstood all those tricks.

Hahaha, from now on, airquotes should be done with the rock on sign!

curious: did you loosen up the wheels just a smidge?

Revive is pretty cool actually. I like the character cartoon art. I wanna grab a pair of the Progress Daily pants, they look comfy.

I appreciate the content, thank you!

Omg bro I'm mad early I love you're vids you inspired me to skate god bless bro

it looks like a tech deck 😂

i love the dude in the background he's LIT

can you review the new Lutzka boards?

Keep killing it John

going pro for walmart

you can get good completes for like 70-80 at skateshops or like zumiez or sum shit but 70 for that and it has the same type of bearings

Congrats on 1m

I’m still starting but every time the park is crowded and it’s hard to practice

Funny thing is that walmarts website actually has pro decks, like element completes (exact same as listed on elements own site), they are sold through market place retailers

I'm soooooooooo happy for you. I can't wait for next week video's

Kind of a weird question but do you use sunscreen? I never skate in the sun cause I get bad acne when i'm in the sun plus sun cancer avoidance.

I can understand the idea of having to struggle with the momenteum of the progress daily channel, i personally think bringing irving and zach back to propell that channel would be in your best interest. Trust me man i think it would relive alot of pressure off of yourself. its expensive yes but you can still offer them a guerrentee so that they get exposure and you can still finacially support yourself and your fiance. anyways just an opinion love you john ill be ordering with the next drop

no gona lie john, the rock on air quotes was life changing.

Used to skate for punisher a year or two ago their “pro” boards are only in a weird shape and I rode for them for close to a year

I'm getting a professional Darkstar complete off of skate warehouse with tensor trucks and 53mm wheels for 56 bucks, what a steal!

Nice! I’m from Cincinnati and grew up skating Beach Acres and seeing Andy S often. He was such a genuine nice dude and an uhmazing skater! We’re almost the same exact age too. I moved to San Diego in 2007 and love it out here. Both places are great for skating, BMX & my personal favorite: SOAPing!

That’s wataugu skate park I go there I hope I can meet you there some time

how good are academy skateboards for begginers?

At this point, john doesnt even need to think about his script for squarespace sponsors, if he even needs one

I've recently gotten back into skating after many years of not doing it, and my entire time with it when I was younger was walmart board. I had gotten so used to it even while knowing it was a piece of garbage, that now while having actual good board from a skate shop, it actually feels worse because i'm so used to imperfections of the walmart board.

Damn I didn’t know wutaga had it like that I’m gonna have to check that park out

BTW you were skating Punisher's girl beginner skateboard. Their skateboards with red trucks are their pro popsicle models.

Can you go to Lewisville skatepark tomorrow?

just got a team killing offense from a bait in r6 so now I'm watching this

i would trust the darkstar boards from walmart, the deck at least. i'm sure it's fine for a beginner.

Another great video 🔥🔥🔥🔥🤙🏻

Brand New Flat spots? ABEC 5?

Hey have u ever tried putting cruiser board wheels on a normal board?I wanna see how it looks so if u could do that that would be cool

Of course you should put your own pro boards on one wall in your home...you can be proud of yourself to get that far in skateboarding (your life!)

How is this park I live a hour away was wanting wanting go to it?

I wonder if the nuts on the axles are screwed on too tight causing the bearing to have so much resistance... still, super frustrating for kids learning.

Imagine how many future skaters quit skateboarding because this was their board..

What part of NC? If your skating I would like to skate too or at least be there! Your awesome man keep doing what you do

U should come to Chicago

Thanks for the video John :D

Bought a anime deck at zumiez for the first time and they built it for me, struggling to learn how to ollie. I have a 8.00 deck. You guys recommend me skate trainers?

the way you’re genuinely upset. walmart, so disappointing but are we really shocked at this

It's kinda depressing to see you skate alone. That's why I mostly watch Dan and Dale now. Still love you bro. Just skate with the homies!! It's good content