How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

anatharc · 10-20-2009, 10:07 AM

late night bombs.
good lord, i forgot how much fun just going fast and straight is.
wind in the face, rocketing toward the bottom, dodging the ocassional student out on a late night walk.
heaven.

StrickY · 10-20-2009, 02:09 PM

good until me and my friend saw a pile of leaves. We needed to jump in. So we went up the hill a bit and jumped into the pile while booking, only my friend landed wrong and snapped his collar bone. He had to be rushed to the hospital. Once he left, called another buddy and kept shredding.

Loopole · 10-20-2009, 07:38 PM

TODAY TOTALLY BUMMED ME OUT....sorry for flame

but yah...
First of all, 2 of my bearings were totally making scratchy sounds (found out later it was totally frozen....) after I finished carving a hill on a bike path a guy on a bike said "skateboards arent alound here, dufus!" I was like, "Dufus?!? Atleast I can keep up with you!" He just kept going. Skates arent aloud there....But, whatever. I dont get in anyones way or go to slow or stop randomly! Ughh just totally ruined my day....

So for bikes bein stupid I give you a big

urbanasultvehicleuav · 10-20-2009, 09:00 PM

went to my favorite hill today, got few runs in at 35 but it poured so it was the perfect time to do rediculously long drifts and 20ft shut down slides on my 75a wheels, oh yeah i was using my second hombuild that i just got mounted today, much more stable than i thought and i love the concave i liek it so its more agressive concave in the front and almost flattening out in the back so you get leverage and controll in the front but you back foot is nice and free to move about in tucks all and all it was pretty damn sweet

jar5173 · 10-20-2009, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StrickY

good until me and my friend saw a pile of leaves. We needed to jump in. So we went up the hill a bit and jumped into the pile while booking, only my friend landed wrong and snapped his collar bone. He had to be rushed to the hospital. Once he left, called another buddy and kept shredding.

Rent-a-friends ftw.

Alpha06 · 10-21-2009, 04:14 AM

It went something like this

Nocturne - Vincent Laforet's Photos- powered by SmugMug

DHBM · 10-21-2009, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alpha06

It went something like this

Nocturne - Vincent Laforet's Photos- powered by SmugMug

bad link .

hawn · 10-21-2009, 05:47 PM

today the weather was beautiful so i skated for a hour practicing my nose manual and im now able to do 2 parking spaces, its starting to feel good and im getting used to getting into it, a little more practice and i will be able to manual 3 ^_^ im happy cause then i can start working up my way on the loaded list, i want to be able to get all the tricks done for all their challenges cause it will keep me focused on what to do next and i wont just skate around aimlessly.

loug · 10-21-2009, 08:13 PM

good skate and almost got pumping down. need to find a longer way to work.

Tip:

Never try to stop a longboard with the tip of your index finger on the grip tape. sucks, leaves a line of sanded off skin on the black grip tape. not too good for the finger either.

threefingerflick · 10-21-2009, 08:44 PM

pretty good. i got some toe side slides going today. nothing big though. i feel like im playing it safe lately. i havent fallen in a while and i havent advanced in my riding in while as well. this weekend im gonna push it to the limit! with my helmet of course.

rodgon · 10-21-2009, 08:59 PM

landed my toeside 180s alot cleaner today, also landed ALOT of switch heelside 180s! ( alot easier than i imagined it would be. lol)

gravity highgrades help out alot, amazing wheels.

going down hills becomes more fun each time i can slide in another way!

Whereisnumnum · 10-21-2009, 09:02 PM

i like going out at night on my shortboard and do some super sharp carvin down super steep hills. i hope i dont get attacked by a coyote again.

stox · 10-22-2009, 01:46 AM

went skogging for half an hr in 35 degree heat, afterwhich i pounded a dumb amount of water, and chilled out of the couch....still on the couch

Jorelle · 10-22-2009, 02:26 AM

Awesome! Went out with my brother and we spent a bit of time carving it up and hit up a hill and practised some slides. I think I'm falling in love with soft wheel sliding. I need an FSM now, but snow is coming!

PierreNZ · 10-22-2009, 07:17 AM

We did some DH with 2 mates, and found some new roads with perfect sealing and no cars. It's in a new subdivision, the road is 800m long, with something like 10 different runs to ride on. There is plenty of turns (toe side and heel side) and some fast sections (70Km/h on the GPS). We had an epic session and both fell as we improved so much in one afternoon... We also did some filming... Can't wait to go back bombing on this spot!

Jat. · 10-23-2009, 01:30 AM

Went out last night to test out some sweet camera equipment. Originally we were to meet up with a bunch of street skaters, but since none of them stuck to the plan we ended up finding a hill where I busted slides for the other guy to snap pictures of.
Flywheels are crazy. I'm borrowing a set of 83mm 81a from a friend and I wouldn't be suprised if they're in their 70's when I return them.

Pocket wizards are, dare I say, 'hella' cool. Being able to fire off multiple flashes from 1600ft is awesome! I'm still not sure if it's $500 awesome, but still, pretty awesome! If only I could figure out how to keep my Canon flashes from entering sleep mode.

loug · 10-23-2009, 08:04 AM

found a longer way to work, maybe a little too long but it was all good. also on the way home found an empty parking lot. now while waiting for the bus up the hill i can get a little more skating time in. "where there's a will there's a relative".

Xgecko · 10-23-2009, 08:18 AM

Handplant on the coping.......fed on the stoke of pro demo....

urbs · 10-23-2009, 09:08 AM

Yesterday I went to a fun pathway with a left hand corner you can drift around. I did that for an hour and left a ton of wheel marks. I went home and left again later to go skate parkades downtown. I hit my favorite spiral last night

lmcmahon · 10-23-2009, 02:24 PM

I only had time for a quick ride today. I went to a path around this place called Sloan's Lake. So my ride included dodging ankle biters, goose poop slaloming and having homeless onlookers whistling at me. But I got my ride in and it is a beautiful day in coloRADo.