Traction, Grip

[Midway]

Yo.
Being a car nut, "traction" to me means gripping the road to provide acceleration, whether it be braking or propelling the vehicle forward, and "grip" refers to the force a tire can provide to turn.
Here in the longboarding world, the two terms seem to mean the same thing, how well a wheel can grab the road. Is my assumption correct? It's been bugging me forever.

[EmptiMind]

Well, cars and longboards are inherently different in that cars are propelled by drive systems that directly move the wheels. Thus traction is necessary. A longboard is set in motion by a pushing foot or gravity, neither of which require the wheel to stick in a forward/backward manner.

So basically it boils down to wheels gripping the road. I do believe in longboarding the terms are interchangeable, but grip is more widely used.

[Dewey]

also, grip isn't needed to accelerate/brake, that's done by our lovely feet.
the only grip we discuss is in turns, that's where it does make a difference, i think.

(o, yeah, i do have heard people talking about more grippier wheels being less fast, but i don't believe that... it might be true a bit, but the difference should be negligible<-- or some word that looks like that)

[Midway]

Thanks. That's what I thought.