Roarockit along with Concrete Wave and Silverfishlongboarding is giving you the chance to be selected as a board tester for a new concept deck. This thread is to post your words and a little video about why you would make a good tester.
I have been skating for a few years and in that time i have become a well rounded skater in many disciplines as well as travel and try many different setups and board styles. I am an avid slider and downhiller-each session i push my boards to their limits and really force them to perform to the best of their ability. If there is something wrong with a board or a setup i quickly change it to my standards or retire the board if it is unsuitable. I have no problem with pointing out the pros or cons of any board or its components. Most importantly, i skate to have fun, skating different boards is fun and i look forward to trying new things and furthering the sport.
I have been skating for a few years and in that time i have become a well rounded skater in many disciplines as well as travel and try many different setups and board styles. I am an avid slider and downhiller-each session i push my boards to their limits and really force them to perform to the best of their ability. If there is something wrong with a board or a setup i quickly change it to my standards or retire the board if it is unsuitable. I have no problem with pointing out the pros or cons of any board or its components. Most importantly, i skate to have fun, skating different boards is fun and i look forward to trying new things and furthering the sport.
The sage, Longboard Buddha once said, "A tree spends 100% of its lifetime in a static environment and only after its reincarnation as a deck is it allowed to move at fast speeds...
when allowed, the wood will give thankless service if
allowed to flow."
I started skating a few years ago. It just dawned to me one day that I was sick of walking. I went down to big5 and got a board. Then I found sf, and got a real board. Then it all went downhill from then on. Although I do practice other disciples (pumping, sliding, is cruising a discipline?), my main love, and the love that gets all of my time is downhill.
I want to be a CL beta tester because I love riding new things, I love pushing things to the limits, and as a builder, I love seeing new construction methods and learning from them. My current DH board is pushed to the limits every time I ride, from cranking incredibly hard turns at high speeds to the point that I have to struggle to keep my feet on the deck, to my myriad of falls which test the durability of boards (I ride a metal board, and with what I've put it through, any other board would be toast). As an experienced rider, I know exactly what desirable traits I want in a deck, and what undesirable traits I do not want. As a (somewhat) experienced builder, I use the knowledge I have gained from building (and failing at building) many decks to further my knowledge of what deck traits are desirable/undesirable. I will not hesitate to point out flaws and will always provide constructive criticism to better the construction of a board.
Unfortunately as I am always the one filming others I am rarely filmed myself, but I don't mind that, I love spreading the stoke with some good footage and pics. But as such I can't really provide a 90 sec vid of me skating, but I can provide a longer vid of me filming someone else (just choose whichever 1:30 long segment u like best). Just imagine me right behind the person skating similarly (if this is absolutely unacceptable, I'll try to scrounge together 90sec of dh footage of me)
this is my youtube channel: YouTube - biohazard329's Channel, and this is the video where you can best picture me doing crazy schenanigans:
Unfortunately as I am always the one filming others I am rarely filmed myself, but I don't mind that, I love spreading the stoke with some good footage and pics. But as such I can't really provide a 90 sec vid of me skating, but I can provide a longer vid of me filming someone else (just choose whichever 1:30 long segment u like best). Just imagine me right behind the person skating similarly (if this is absolutely unacceptable, I'll try to scrounge together 90sec of dh footage of me)
Be really great if it was some footage of you. A slide presentation would also work.
Thanks
I will be 100% honest, I have been boarding for a good 5 months now. I would not call myself a professional, but I would not call myself a "newbie" either. In fact, I won't even judge my ability at all. What I can offer you is a good, honest review from someone who LOVES to board. My discipline? More or less downhill/street, but nothing exceptionally technical. Don't get me wrong, I still do some crazy ****.
I'm the guy from Arizona who will skate at ANY time of the day. Yes Arizona, and yes anytime of the day only considering how long it will take me to pass out. It reaches upwards of 115 here (extreme heat testing!). I know what I like in a board, and am sometimes very picky. With surf roots I live to carve. I feel I learn a board best through carving, seeing what I throw at her and at what speeds. How my knees respond to her and just how I feel at the bottom of the hill...how bad do I really want to hike all the way back up? If its a board and setup I like, yes I'll hike that b*tch all day.
Unfortunately I leave for Marine Corps recruit training in October which may or may not hinder my chances of becoming a board tester. In that sense I board everyday not only to have fun, but to keep in shape when not PTing. Mornings I have DEP (delayed entry pool) training I wake up earlier to have breakfast on my board. Yes that sounds wierd, but a red cup of cereal and an apple in the pocket ain't bad. For some reason it stimulates my metabolism so I don't spew as much after I get ass chewed by our recruiter on a run. Anyways, longboarding has just kind of added itself to my schedule. I can use it as a way to vent, or use it as a way to put a smile on my face. I'm here to stay and I've still got the stoke. My board has seen a few miles.
The videos I've got are a few of my crew and myself (I've got the Loaded Vanguard on Orang's). Like I said, nothing real special, but I edited the vids and did a little of the filming myself. We're here to have fun, and like the guy above, there's no straight 90 sec. clip but I will take more if you are interested.
I started longboarding about three years ago with a group of friends and instantly became hooked on it. I’ve been a carver since day one I love the feeling of hard carving because it’s like surfing on a concrete wave. One of my favorite parts about longboarding is that everyone finds there own unique style of skating when they first step on a board. Over the years longboarding has become a big part of my life and a great way to express myself.
Id love to be a CL beta board tester because I’m sick of people telling me longboarding isn’t a real sport and I think if board companies keep designing boards that are made with better materials it will really help the progression of longboarding. video will be up soon
My name is Max Capps. I have been skateboarding for about 2 years now, and Speedboarding for a year and a half. I started by just cruising around on a board i hacked to resemble a Sector 9 cruiser. When me and my friends started to search for more places to skate, we found one hill, and thats when my speed crave started to grow.
I have ridden very vast vereity of speedboards, some i have built myself, some coming from different custom builders, most from almost all commercially available speedboards. With this i have ridden all styles, most layups, and all but a few of the trucks and wheels out there.
I want to be a tester because i think that with the range of races all over california that i go to, the different types of hills, and my experience with different boards, that i will be able to give valuable feedback that will help further the innovation of this new layup/build process.
Thanks and i hope that i will be in your minds later on.
Roarockit Beta Board Entry Thread
Good Entry!
(if this is absolutely unacceptable, I'll try to scrounge together 90sec of dh footage of me)
