How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

**southshorelocal** · 05-06-2008 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by slither9192

Rode around in the tennis courts for a while on my vanguard. Practiced cross stepping and nose manuals. And I got gum on my board. Any advice on How to get it off. I picked alot off but whats left is just black and smooth now so my foot slips there cuz there is no grip. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
O and my friends and I did some freerunning on the roofs in the center of town. The police didn't like that very much.

goo off gets gum off of most stuff but i dont know about griptape

**User Name:** · 05-06-2008 09:04 PM

just pushed around on my dreamwave today. I was doing about 15 mph down the street onto an really nicely banked parking lot carving and whatnot then when I got back on the street some random dog tried to race me. I totally won hahaha. stoke +1

**NJ Joe** · 05-07-2008 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by User Name:

just pushed around on my dreamwave today. I was doing about 15 mph down the street onto an really nicely banked parking lot carving and whatnot then when I got back on the street some random dog tried to race me. I totally won hahaha. stoke +1

At home my dog chases the longboard and barks fervently at it like it were some demon with wheels.

**SwearDean** · 05-07-2008 11:31 AM

Finally, I was able to pull off a 180 fs powerslide!

I've been trying for months to do it using Gumballs and I just couldn't get them.

Just tonight though, I decided to break in my Pink Powerballs on my Komodo deck, and WHAM, 180 powerslide after several tries.

Awesome feeling.

(riding switch never felt so great!)

**freemanbrett1** · 05-07-2008 08:57 PM

Yesterday I was practicing my first bit with sliding and ate sh*t! It hurt like hell but was a valid lesson!

(dont slide on the gravel by the curb)

**southshorelocal** · 05-07-2008 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by freemanbrett1

Yesterday I was practicing my first bit with sliding and ate sh*t! It hurt like hell but was a valid lesson!

(dont slide on the gravel by the curb)

Your lucky I learned that after I broke my wrist.

**Teh_Zak723** · 05-10-2008 11:01 PM

I cruised around all day, working on my Walk the Plank and Lookbacks. As it got dark I headed back to my street and messed around with a friend, doing pivot 180s to sitting down and buttboarding. good fun. Then i decided to head inside and start posting on the Fish for once, I've lurked for long enough.

**Rarrazz** · 05-11-2008 01:23 AM

Skated 30 miles today in about 2 hours.. Longest skate I've ever done at one time.
Skated 15 miles away, bought some water.. and then skated back.
By the time I got to where I was going, I was feeling like I couldn't get going too much farther, but I managed to get into a zone, and just keep on pushing until I was home again.

**Schnitz** · 05-11-2008 01:42 AM

got my new flexdex pro40 and just carved/bombed a moderate hill for a few minutes to test it out. its flexy fun and smooth. cant wait to start sliding, but got this cast on

**Xgecko** · 05-11-2008 06:46 AM

Took my unused HyperCarve to my younger brother showed him the basics of how to foot brake. We skated a bit in his neighborhood then I skated a couple of miles around my old home town before having my dad's 75th birthday dinner

**bAdger555** · 05-11-2008 01:25 PM

Met up with another silverfisher and did some dh. Worked on speed checks and slides------------it was sweet. Then I took my Bambino out and practiced sliding and ate sho!t.

**Hot Wheels** · 05-11-2008 02:11 PM

Spent my day in the Skatepark. Go there early really worked it.

Got the nerve to drop-in on the deep end of one of the bowls. Once I
made it, I went right back and did it 10 more times in a row! Only fell
once.

Later on with the help of some of the better skaters, actual learned to Ollie!
Nothing big at all, but popped 3 or 4 of em.

These things just do not come easy at an older age, but the
progress is rewarding. 8)

**DELETED** · 05-11-2008 08:00 PM

Bombed a couple hills with my friend today. The first one was f'ing killer, we just stumbled on it, parked and hit it. It was a lot steeper than it looked and I'm fairly sure I broke 40 on it thanks to a nice tailwind. Then we went a couple blocks over and found what looked like a nice little run. Near the bottom I realized I had too much speed to make the sharp right hander, so I just slid to a stop. Then I wondered how my friend was going to stop without slide gloves. He started turning into the corner, then just aimed for the curb and jumped off his board. Landed with a loud thud on the dirt, it was a pretty brutal bail. We had enough of testing our luck and split. I want to hit the first hill from the top, but I want to get some better safety gear first.

**omgwtfhumpingjellybeans** · 05-11-2008 10:44 PM

did some runs and carves on our street. Was practicing sliding too, damn 75a's

**Rarrazz** · 05-11-2008 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by DELETED

Bombed a couple hills with my friend today. The first one was f'ing killer, we just stumbled on it, parked and hit it. It was a lot steeper than it looked and I'm fairly sure I broke 40 on it thanks to a nice tailwind. Then we went a couple blocks over and found what looked like a nice little run. Near the bottom I realized I had too much speed to make the sharp right hander, so I just slid to a stop. Then I wondered how my friend was going to stop without slide gloves. He started turning into the corner, then just aimed for the curb and jumped off his board. Landed with a loud thud on the dirt, it was a pretty brutal bail. We had enough of testing our luck and split. I want to hit the first hill from the top, but I want to get some better safety gear first.

Had a similiar experience today..
Just kept going up a road, and it was scary, scary, scary coming back down.. Really need to get some good safety gear if I'm going to do that again..
I'll try to get some good pics of the roads I was hitting later..

**BUboarder** · 05-12-2008 01:29 AM

have been perfecting my slides lately, and i've gotten pretty good at it!
me 'n my buds hit up our first garage on friday evening, 5 stories, then another 8 story one last night!! lots of fun

**Schnitz** · 05-14-2008 09:17 PM

F***ing awesome. i was heading home and i was on the left sidewalk, which sucks, of a very busy street. I was trying to beat the red light at one of the few intersections on the street but i wasn't fast enough and so i couldnt turn right to cross to get to the street (the next one over parallel to this one) i usually take. so i decided i would explore a few other streets on the way home. I took a left at the intersection and i arrived on a 2 mile strip of heaven: an empty street with fresh unblemished asphalt with nice steep hills. I was pretty excited, considering i live in the city where there r no hills like these. So i started to go down a mellow slope, which eventually transitioned into a small valley of 2 short steep hills. At that point as i started to accelerate, i realized that i probably shouldnt be doing this without a helmet, pads, sliding gloves, or with a cast on my left arm. oh well, too late. I started to reach about 30 mph, more or less, and i started to get into the early stage of speed wobbles. I thought that i was pretty much ####ed and i thought to myself: relax relax ride it out ride it out relax. After a few seconds that seemed like 5 minutes of battle the death wobbles. I finally reached the end and i was ####### psyched.

o and i learned how to pump

**ZampraZ** · 05-14-2008 11:37 PM

Yesterday I bit the bullet and ordered a Komodo, bigzigs, pleasure tools and spacers from LBL.

Now I have got to freeze myself until it arrives.

**Rarrazz** · 05-15-2008 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by ZampraZ

Yesterday I bit the bullet and ordered a Komodo, bigzigs, pleasure tools and spacers from LBL.

Now I have got to freeze myself until it arrives.

Sounds like a fun ride.
You'll have to keep us posted on what you think about it, haven't seen terribly many reviews on it yet.
I may be getting an LBL Walkabout shortly....

!

**fluidworks** · 05-15-2008 05:35 PM

Went to school, bombed a minor sidewalk hill, hit a little patch of water, and my board flew out from under me. Sprained my wrist and feels like I broke my ass. I'm an idiot.