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That looks like a great way to get even more people to hate on longboarders.
Yea, right on.... Spread the Anti-Stoke!!! 
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If you're referring to my post, I ain't trying to do that. Hell I loved the claremont vid but could see the issue. I'm being practical here. I just hope those guys don't get run over.
What those guys did was impressive and they definitely have mad skill and steel ballz.
 Originally Posted by MacSpeedMike
That looks like a great way to get even more people to hate on longboarders.
Yea, right on.... Spread the Anti-Stoke!!!
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Originally Posted by s9lngbord
If you're referring to my post, I ain't trying to do that. Hell I loved the claremont vid but could see the issue. I'm being practical here. I just hope those guys don't get run over.
What those guys did was impressive and they definitely have mad skill and steel ballz.
no im talking about the originally posted vid. and imho the cleremont video is 100 times more gnarley, mostly because it takes tallent.
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Originally Posted by s9lngbord
I think these dudes are more insane than Rizzio-Sakamoto in the Claremont vid.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are talking about their choice in fashion.....
cause the alternative would be absolutely unbelievable
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Traffic surfing involves the weaving in and out of car traffic. You've got all kinds of people driving, in various states of mind. Some are tired, angry, happy, etc. A few may even be drunk. Every car has it's blindspots. Look how fast our specimens were going. A careless driver could make a turn without looking. Some dumbass could run a red light.
While Claremont's no joke, at least our MIB (Men In Blue) weren't in thick traffic. Their lives were not as much at the mercy of cars. They still had to watch out for cars but for the most part, they had to skillfully maneuver fixed curves. I wanna stress, the claremont vid did take mad talent. They had many blind turns to negotiate and fast drivers.
In summary, traffic surfing puts you acutely every second at the mercy of other's driving skills.
Originally Posted by MacSpeedMike
no im talking about the originally posted vid. and imho the cleremont video is 100 times more gnarley, mostly because it takes tallent.
Last edited by s9lngbord; 08-11-2009 at 12:53 AM.
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Originally Posted by MacSpeedMike
no im talking about the originally posted vid. and imho the cleremont video is 100 times more gnarley, mostly because it takes tallent.
first time i watched the claremont vid, i had to hold my breath. haha 
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Originally Posted by s9lngbord
Look how fast our specimens were going.
They are going slow enough to push, yet they are still traveling faster than the cars, most of which are stopped or barely rolling. "Lives at the mercy of cars"  15 mph impact is not life threatening unless you lead with your unprotected head
Not nearly as insane as bombing claremont at 40+ where the cars are coming uphill at 30+ mph
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Originally Posted by s9lngbord
Traffic surfing involves the weaving in and out of car traffic. You've got all kinds of people driving, in various states of mind. Some are tired, angry, happy, etc. A few may even be drunk. Every car has it's blindspots. Look how fast our specimens were going. A careless driver could make a turn without looking. Some dumbass could run a red light.
While Claremont's no joke, at least our MIB (Men In Blue) weren't in thick traffic. Their lives were not as much at the mercy of cars. They still had to watch out for cars but for the most part, they had to skillfully maneuver fixed curves. I wanna stress, the claremont vid did take mad talent. They had many blind turns to negotiate and fast drivers.
In summary, traffic surfing puts you acutely every second at the mercy of other's driving skills.
Aight whatever im not gonna lie, "traffic surfing" is just wreck less and endangering, both to the riders and drivers. It doesn't take a whole lot of talent, Its something pretty much any one with a board can do if they have the balls, its something i do downtown on my way to the parking garages, and its something bicyclers do every day all over. (and they do it in actual traffic, not amongst cars parked in traffic) Aside from that ive been hit by a car going less then 5 miles an hour, and while it is annoying, it is not fatal...
Conversely, bombing Claremont going 50+ takes an extreme amount of skill and precision. If you hit a rock, pothole, or just a speed wobble you get severely injured. I dont even want to imagine what would happen if you hit a car. Nevertheless all of the aforementioned things could result in your death.
Comparing a display of idiocy and a display off skill that took years to develop is just asinine.
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I properly thought it was a great video. Looked mad crazy fun weaving the traffic like that...plus for the record...I didnt even think it could have been those tail devil things....lol I thought he just had a super overly long kingpin that flexed to the ground as he pumped
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Was a sweet video, but I couldn't get past a man in capris, and the idea of someone opening their door to spit, or litter some garbage, and have them smash right into it. 
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I can't believe how many of you girls care what the hell another dude wears to skate. 
These guys look like they are having fun and enjoying the flow......that's good right?
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i liked the vid, it probably would have sucked with a diffrent song but the song went great with the flow of the video.
and that vid shows why i'll get my ass kicked at the broadway bomb
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Just watching that vid made my balls shrink, I got scared one of those guys would get T-Bone'd.
Oh, and don't kill the stoke, spread it.
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Originally Posted by Mall Grab
who used to ride a fixed gear bike
HAHAHA
they ride those POS's over in Cali too!
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Wow! Look at all that freakin' traffic!! Way better off on a board than in a car.
Looks like fun actually.
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so let me get this straight... the tail devils on on the bottom edges of his deck and hes carving hard enough for them to touch the ground?
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Originally Posted by Dmitch
so let me get this straight... the tail devils on on the bottom edges of his deck and hes carving hard enough for them to touch the ground?
Correct sir. A friend of mine has a tail devil on the center of his Grombiz board and the flex coupled with hard carves will make that bitch spark.
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If you guys went to the broadway bomb (some of you have), you'd know how much skill,luck, and danger is involved...its INTENSE for sure. As intense as any DH run you could take if you hope to make it into the top 30 spot
Last year i got like 35/250 (bustin timelapse video) and I watched as a few riders went headfirst during red lights into 3 lanes of traffic
Watch 9:05-9:30
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Originally Posted by Mall Grab
To me he looks like a NY hipster who used to ride a fixed gear bike but then decided that longboards are even trendier.
Anyway, capris for skating? Please no...
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You obviously are oblivious, but you are in fact embarrassing yourself with rhetoric like that. No one with any taste or education takes any of that post-modernist BS seriously.
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Originally Posted by Alpha06
If you guys went to the broadway bomb (some of you have), you'd know how much skill,luck, and danger is involved...its INTENSE for sure. As intense as any DH run you could take
I am still having a really hard time with this comparison which sounds so stupid. How is what their doing any different then people who ride their bikes in the roads and turn with cars and such. And how exactly does this take skill, because im faily certain anyone can ride in the street, i do it all over downtown during the weekends. The fact is your fate depends on whether the drivers are looking out for you. Someones gonna have to explain this a little to me before i could ever agree that this takes a small fraction of the skill it requires to bomb a 50 mile an hour downhill curvy road such as Claremont.
As for the danger.... these cars are going less then 10 miles an hour and ive been hit twice now by cars going less then 10 miles an hour. Both times i walked away with minor bruises. So i find it almost impossible to believe that its more dangerous then falling doing downhill. 30 is about the fastest ive taken a spill downhill and it defiantly hurt far more then either of the two times i got hit by a car.
Please can someone explain this? Because all i see are Taxi drivers who are having to make unnecessary stops because these people are impeding traffic... without even looking behind them. Btw, this basically one of the primary reasons the general population doesnt like those of us who skate.
Last year i got like 35/250 (bustin timelapse video) and I watched as a few riders went headfirst during red lights into 3 lanes of traffic
And that is called stupidity bud, not skill...and i just watched that whole video to humor you, and ive just got one question. How the hell are you impressed by that. What they are doing is simply impeding traffic. And from 9:05-9:30, all i saw was someone skate in front of a Tan van and a Taxi cab. Lucky for them both drives unnecessarily braked in the middle of the intersection when they didnt have to and could have simply run those dumbass kids over. Hey man, i could go out right now and ride in the middle of the freeway and hope that drivers would stop for me when they didnt have to, but then again im not ****ing stupid. Would that make me more gnar then them?
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