How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

**gordito8me** · 01-25-2009 01:13 PM

rode home from school on my nemesis. Did some speedcheck down a steep hill, rolled through some grass onto a sidewalk, slipped on some rocks and did a gnarly 180 (I did it on purpose I swear) then proceeded to flag down traffic as people ran stop signs.

what a great day

**isk** · 01-25-2009 01:14 PM

wanted to for an extended longboarding trip today but had to cut it short because the roads where still too wet for the most part. had to footbreak down all the hills i normally skate down because i didnt want my board to slip away under me.

**feenixx** · 01-25-2009 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by Petary791

Dr. Dadavildy and I grabbed a board and headed across the street to feenixx's dorm basement. Ours is cool because it's basically a 1/4 mile straight, but fnx has A LOT of turns believe it or not, so I practiced my standup drifts on my mini. Urethane and tile just do not like each other at all.

dude i was talking to those shortboarders this morning....they were all like 'ZOMG WE'RE GONNA GET TEH LONGBORDZ! IT'S SOOOOO FAST AND CARVEEE!'

mission accomplished

but yeah petary's basement is probably better (mine has biology and chemistry labs

) so less chance for getting busted, but ours is great for practicing the drifts 8)

**rube7558** · 01-25-2009 02:00 PM

just got back from a hour long ride on the bridge thats near my house and it was one of the best sesions i had in a while. I realized ive never seen how fast i could go on it so i slaped on my 42 degree plates on my strike and grabed my gps. with a light tail wind and a hard push at the top i managed 36 mph

. after that i praticed doing pendys in the width of a sidwalk before the hairpin that goes under the bridge.

**fluke** · 01-25-2009 03:37 PM

Went back out again today with 2 more people in our party for a total of 4. Skated this end of the ridge over and over again until we got finally had enough cold. Won a couple simple races down the longest hill (though the slow one) against my friend, albeit a little unfair since his bearings are worse than mine now, but I would have won anyway I think.

Watched my friend from Brazil go down his first decent hill today - he was stoked and from then on kept going back up to the top with us to keep going down. Overall, excellent little cruise for 2-3 hours in 25-30 degree weather and light snow flurries the whole time. Posted some pics from it in Action Shots.

**coldwar7** · 01-25-2009 05:10 PM

I had a sweet downhill run were I got to string 3 hills together. all nice easy right/toeside carves. Safe because all of them had stop signs. It was so smooth!

**gniss39** · 01-25-2009 06:18 PM

I finally got the stand up backside powerslide down today! Now I can do both frontside and backside slides! time to learn it switch so i can do two powerslides after each other!

**surfdubs** · 01-25-2009 06:28 PM

i just had a load of fun on my gravity mini with powerballs and grind kings.

i'm in the process of trying to destroy it. its really fun to ollie and slide curbs with. its pretty challenging to do anything on it since i have size 12 feet, but that adds to the fun. stand up 360s are a blast. other than that its all manuals and bonelesses, no comply lots of retro stuff.

i love sessions like this cause it feels like im touching skateboardings roots. man i love skateboarding.

**Hot Wheels** · 01-25-2009 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by feenixx

dude i was talking to those shortboarders this morning....they were all like 'ZOMG WE'RE GONNA GET TEH LONGBORDZ! IT'S SOOOOO FAST AND CARVEEE!'

mission accomplished

but yeah petary's basement is probably better (mine has biology and chemistry labs

) so less chance for getting busted, but ours is great for practicing the drifts 8)

Way to spread the stoke

It's cool when you have a place to skate indoors in the winter.

**mjswider** · 01-29-2009 10:14 PM

Today was an awesome skate day. Started with an hour session at the local skate park, never more than 4 people skating, and two of them were me and my son. Later skated to the YMCA to do a pilates class with my wife, then skated home. After lunch, I skated LDP to work, and found a great section of sidewalk I had not know about and pumped switch the whole section, super stoke. I finally got the real groove pumping switch along the section, I was very stoked. Great tunes were really a big part of that I'm sure. Got to ride home from work later in the day, I was whipped by the time I got there. All in all, I really enjoyed the day. And to top it off, it was my boy's 18th birthday, so we had some killer homemade zucchini cake for dessert tonight.

Can't imagine how tomorrow could be better.

**fluke** · 02-01-2009 08:39 PM

I was without power since last Tuesday, and we ended up going to stay with my grandmother in a different city until tonight. Friday evening I was able to come back here finally and grab my pin tail since the snow/ice storm had settled down somewhat. Rode alllll weekend. Got really dirty and wet riding through everything, killed several sets of cheap bearings, and had to overhaul our boards this evening but we didn't care - it was well worth it. Had a blast skating around town and bombing some small hills, and just generally carving around and having a good time. Found some really cool new spots to go back to when it's dry too! Super-stoked. Ordered parts this evening from Mark to replace the ones we broke over the weekend, and... didn't do my homework (just now remembered).. ah well, it was fun.

**Muffcake** · 02-03-2009 06:18 PM

Today I was just going down my hill and I rolled over an unseen pile od dog crap. I splattered all over my leg and the bottom of my board. Other than that, it was fun.

**jshalvorsen** · 02-03-2009 06:51 PM

Short and not very fast, but it got me from my appartement to the store, and back. Great stuff

**asf2j** · 02-03-2009 07:38 PM

itssss sooooo coldddddd in the south

**dozer jr** · 02-03-2009 07:40 PM

hit a fukin patch of black ice

tore my jacket open
no injuries tho

**omgwtfhumpingjellybeans** · 02-05-2009 07:41 AM

Tried to do them big spins and instead I learn the one footed shuvit haha

**fluke** · 02-05-2009 07:55 AM

Did some ollies on my new mini... in my bedroom and basement.. Rode my new spoon nose.. in my basement..

I hate this weather...

**Eric Nogueira** · 02-05-2009 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Hot Wheels

Way to spread the stoke

It's cool when you have a place to skate indoors in the winter.

I bring my derv to school when i stay after, so i dont have to walk down my street. Ive let a buch of kids try it, and now they all want one.

**Archy** · 02-05-2009 09:04 PM

Skated in the ice cold bullshit with my busted knee. Winter sucks. But it's cool this thread just hit 1000.

**drummerjamesh** · 02-05-2009 09:11 PM

i've actually been able to get in some good runs the last few days. If its in the 30s I won't go skate, its just not fun for me. Its been nice during the days though and I've been able to cruise campus some and ride the dog. I just got him a harness this week and he loves pulling me around, it wears his ass out too