The longboard wheels have come a long way since the time they were first invented. The long boarders who have experienced riding the traditional and the modern urethane wheels will tell you that the there is definitely increased speed, better grip, and overall enhanced ride quality of urethane wheels. This is chiefly the ability of urethane wheels to rebound as in return to their original shape fast after being out of shape. Also, the modern urethane has remarkably higher rebound than older urethane. If you want to test the rebound of a wheel, drop it on the floor and see how high it bounces.

To minimize the rolling resistance of the longboard wheels, you can utilize this quality for the rolling resistance of the wheel. What you can do is to put your weight on the board, what happens is that the wheels compress slightly at the leading edge as the wheel rolls on to the road. Then, while the wheel roll on the back edge, it rebounds pushing against the road and gives back the energy utilized to compress the wheel in to a forward momentum.

If you have too soft wheels, they would not rebound quickly enough losing the energy. And if you have too hard wheels, the road surface distorts slowly and the tarmac rebounds very slowly, of course, this also wastes the energy again. The theory here is something has got to give somewhere so you might as well try to minimize the energy losses. If you want to know more about longboard wheels, you can head over the  Online Skate Shop site for more helpful information.