How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

**Xgecko** · 04-26-2009 02:25 PM

tooo phuking hot....actually it was a good day, pigmoder, Slidewalksamurai, chaoselephant, livehard, me and 1-2 other guys had a great session in the stone garden. Mostly perfecting lines and carving none of us had the energy to bomb real fast but it was fun. I got to see not one but 2 Comet FSM's, nice looking in person though wheelbite city on both the setups I saw....I think I'd top or flush mount Indy 215's on it instead of dropping through

**phil7153** · 04-26-2009 02:27 PM

i ate #### attempting to do another standy 360. I got about 270 then the wheels just stuck and threw me off. It wasnt a fun time, and neither will tomorrows shower.

**SpudMan** · 04-26-2009 02:53 PM

Got up early and took the mermaid out for a 7 miler before it got too hot. Good spring pump lovin' morning!

**El Capitan** · 04-26-2009 06:20 PM

Hiked up to a nice spot were houses are supposed to be built but they never got to it. The road is nice and i only saw 2 cars the whole hour i was there. The hike sucked though cause its really steep gravely, hot, and i almost fell. Once i got there it was nice though, the road is like a big elliptical O that is fairly steep, and has only one corner at the start. Pavement damage and rocks almost chucked me a couple times but it was nice because you go down the hill and then it goes up, so it kills speed at the end and all i have to do is walk up the hill a bit and i can go down again. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

Felt like the king of killing wobbles today, because i got so many but only got chucked once at the very end of my hour up there. Oh and worked on a basic slide while i was up there, but my butt kept dragging on the ground at the end

Anyone know why that would happen?

**MacRae** · 04-26-2009 09:21 PM

Scoped out some hills for a slide session in a couple weeks, think I've got the perfect one picked out. It's right up the street from where I'm moving and seems like a pretty sick hill - definitely too steep and narrow for me to try bombing at my skill level, but I'd feel pretty comfortable sliding it.

Got home and worked through my slide repertoire. I'd been having trouble with 1h 180s the past week, I'd pull them off but had to really wrench my ankle to get myself back onto the board at the end. I think I've got it down now, though; I wasn't turning into it enough before trying to slide and was basically doing a standup 180 in a crouch with one hand briefly down. Smooth as butter now, though!

Originally Posted by El Capitan

Oh and worked on a basic slide while i was up there, but my butt kept dragging on the ground at the end

Anyone know why that would happen?

Depends what slide you were doing, I guess. If it's something really basic like a 2h 180, you might be pushing your board too far away and winding up with not enough leverage to keep your body off the ground?

**El Capitan** · 04-26-2009 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by MacRae

Depends what slide you were doing, I guess. If it's something really basic like a 2h 180, you might be pushing your board too far away and winding up with not enough leverage to keep your body off the ground?

It was just a coleman, sorry for not mentioning that to start.

**d-loop** · 04-27-2009 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by El Capitan

It was just a coleman, sorry for not mentioning that to start.

I sometimes have the same problem, try pretty much touching your back knee to your front leg (so it's more like laying down than crouching) and don't lean to far from the board, stay with it and guide it.

**El Capitan** · 04-27-2009 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by d-loop

I sometimes have the same problem, try pretty much touching your back knee to your front leg (so it's more like laying down than crouching) and don't lean to far from the board, stay with it and guide it.

Thank you very much!!!! Cant wait to try it out.

**my-surfing-substitute** · 04-27-2009 06:07 PM

I learned a backside 180 stand up and a backside shovit - in the space of a few hours. I really got my backside into shape!

**Terrence** · 04-27-2009 07:06 PM

not so good today... got off balance and twisted my ankle...

**carvinconcrete** · 04-27-2009 10:04 PM

just went cruisin by myself, saw some of my friends got a slurpee with them then longboarded back to one of their houses and played nfl street

**RocketMan1989** · 04-27-2009 10:13 PM

skated around with my buddy, hit up some garages on campus. then went to get a slurpee (that is the best thing when skating). while we were enjoying our slurpees three like 30somthing year old dudes walk out and throw their cigs right next to us and get ash all over our shoes and what not. really freaking rude. so my buddy asks why the had to do that and they started this big thing and made a huge scene talking ####. so we just left and they drove by and told us that they were "gonna cut your face." wtf is that all about. ??

**one eye** · 04-27-2009 10:41 PM

Push,push,push,ride,enjoy,and repeated.

**omgwtfhumpingjellybeans** · 04-27-2009 11:35 PM

learned the one handed toeside speedcheck and the toeside no hand slide whilst trying to dial in powerslide shuvits

**carvinconcrete** · 04-28-2009 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by RocketMan1989

skated around with my buddy, hit up some garages on campus. then went to get a slurpee (that is the best thing when skating). while we were enjoying our slurpees three like 30somthing year old dudes walk out and throw their cigs right next to us and get ash all over our shoes and what not. really freaking rude. so my buddy asks why the had to do that and they started this big thing and made a huge scene talking ####. so we just left and they drove by and told us that they were "gonna cut your face." wtf is that all about. ??

hahaha, cut your face? what a weird thing to say.
im gettin some joker vibes here

**Terrence** · 04-28-2009 06:32 PM

very nice!

its hot outside so that isnt cool... but i got the basics of cross stepping down

now i just gotta make it look pretty haha

**Xgecko** · 04-28-2009 06:38 PM

screwed around in my driveway on my eastbuilt dancer trying to do the 4/1 loaded challenge....soo didn't succeed but t was fun none the less

**d-loop** · 04-28-2009 09:09 PM

It was so much fun! I am currently borrowing a deck (don't know make) and some Randal 180 trucks from a friend of mine (NorCalDH), and it was mindblowing. Before today, I had never ridden anything other than Sector 9 boards, aside from wheels, so I had a great time.

**Incary** · 04-28-2009 10:50 PM

Pissing down and cold here on the way home from Uni. Busted out about 20 heelside 180 slides on the way home though

Go dervish heh.

**GabooN** · 04-29-2009 01:21 AM

Went for my first ever longboard ride tonight from 2:00-3:00am! My board came today but it had rained, so I had to wait. Turning at speed is gonna take some getting used to, I have 10 years snowboarding experience to fight against. Overall, I'm stoked. I wish the roads were more consistent. You go one street over and it goes from super smooth to giant chunks of road missing.

FYI my setup is
44 Fibreflex Pintail
S8 Original trucks
70mm Lime Zigzags.