Personally like with every other sport I try, I believe in renting or borrowing the equipment first to see if I even like it before dumping a lot of money into the equipment & then finding out I really don't like it as much as I thought I would....of course, there's not just the skateboard, there are the shoes & the helmet & the pads that are really needed also.

Also, it takes more than a month to really learn a new sport, really get the feel for it to know if it's really a sport you are going to like spending time doing or if you just want to dabble in it to see what it's like....much better to borrow the equipment to start with or pay for a lesson through some place & have them provide the equipment. That way you get from a professional the real feel for the sport & what is really involved in it before investing money in equipment that you may end up just throwing into the black hole for sports equipment in the back of the closet.