How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

**Fantasma** · 05-16-2009 12:29 PM

Quite boring...

I allways ride at a short street next to my house since all other streets don't have good pavement

whole center of town has Clinker bricks(??) on the street...

so need to find some other place....

**SpdFrk** · 05-16-2009 02:10 PM

Last week I was hitting a garage on a turn i took it to wide and slammed my leg into a metal wire coming across from a wall to a stabalizing pillar bunch of metal wires........ Hurt like a MOTHA!!!! today im deciding to go at it again my leg is almost at 100% I went out on my garage to do some more slides was out there for like 30 minutes getting ready for tonight's session.

oh...and i also painted the gumballs i have on my spud black, well the sides black anyways lol i did not like the colors

**Lord Genocide** · 05-16-2009 02:42 PM

I'm a really new rider, probably about a week of experience, and i went out crusing today on my Hellcat (I know it's a downhill board but i love the stability). I forgot my good shoes at work, and i didn't think there would be too much difference between the Emerica's and my crappy walmart work shoes, but there is a world of difference, i feel clumsy in these shoes. Anyways i managed to scout out some damn nice trails for when i get a bit better including some Fierce carving paths. The biggest thing is i need to learn how to stop other than just turning and bunch than running it out.

**Xgecko** · 05-16-2009 03:27 PM

2 hours of running cones....I have a new course set for training I really like my setup though I need a smaller bushing on my front/top

**carvinconcrete** · 05-16-2009 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Lord Genocide

I'm a really new rider, probably about a week of experience, and i went out crusing today on my Hellcat (I know it's a downhill board but i love the stability). I forgot my good shoes at work, and i didn't think there would be too much difference between the Emerica's and my crappy walmart work shoes, but there is a world of difference, i feel clumsy in these shoes. Anyways i managed to scout out some damn nice trails for when i get a bit better including some Fierce carving paths. The biggest thing is i need to learn how to stop other than just turning and bunch than running it out.

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**coldwar7** · 05-16-2009 05:41 PM

Just got the Never Summer Heist today for my birthday! It's awesome! Has a lot more flex than my old Layback and it carves like a dream!!! I can't wait to ride it again... it's raining now...

**curlywhit1** · 05-17-2009 03:35 PM

I just got a new board. A 46" Sector 9 Bamboo Pipeline and I took it out for a 30 minute cruise. The roads suck here in Minnesota where I live so I'm gonna have to find some better places to ride. I started riding in Florida where the roads are smoother on a 53" Gravity. I called it "The Beast." I have only been riding for about a month, so I'm not very good. If anyone lives in Minnesota and knows of good places to ride, cruising, hills, etc. let me know!

**MacRae** · 05-17-2009 04:20 PM

Absolutely amazing! I bought some new wheels for sliding on Friday (62mm Bones SPFs) to replace my flatspotted 53mm wheels and finally got to test them out today. After about ten minutes I was doing toeside pendies on the steep-ass hill in front of my house, where I'd never been able to do them before.

Then while walking back up the hill to do my third run, I noticed a shortboard sticking out of a trashcan in front of one of the houses. It looked in pretty decent condition - and just then someone came out of the house and confirmed that it was just being thrown out, so I thanked them and snagged it. It's a Minilogo deck with Venture trucks and some well-worn Minilogos, but other than some bird #### that I had to scrape off it's not in any worse condition than any other well-used deck.

I'm completed stoked, I'd been considering buying a shortboard so I could start working on improving my ollies and maybe try moving on to other tricks, and the skateboard gods saw fit to bestow one upon me for free!

**N8vDave** · 05-17-2009 07:12 PM

my ride was pretty decent me and my friend took an adventure from westchester to playa del ray the beach in los angeles there were some pretty sick hills on the way there but one was so steep lucky we were going up it not down

man it was like the hill was all verticle but after crawling up the steep street we made it to the beach and after we just took the bus back becuase my chubby friend was tierd

8)

**Jorelle** · 05-17-2009 07:45 PM

Fun! It was windy out today and my friend left his longboard to me for the weekend so my brother was using it to learn. We went on a rather speedy pathway in the middle of a park and the 15km winds blowing behind us. Going down pretty fast in my opinion and carving it but my foot placement was off and I couldn't heelside carve out of a turn fast enough and had to jump off and sprint it off in the grass.

**carvinconcrete** · 05-18-2009 06:13 PM

It was sweet. Its the hottest today its been all year! Im so tired though, i was pushing around my neighborhood (flat) full speed forever, sweat is dripping down my face right now haha. Im pretty sure its the fastest ive ever pushed

(iron maiden can do that to you, ya know)

oh ya, and there was this huge dustdevil/garbagedevil/whirlwind thing that just suddenly sprung up about 50 feet from me and i rode through it, it was sick

**youngblood21** · 05-18-2009 06:19 PM

yesterday was probably the greatest time ive ever had longboarding. My friend bought his first board on friday and yesterday I went to his house and we crusied around for about 3.5 hours. It was really nice out so we cruised wearing nothing but our boardshorts which was very nice, not to mention the fact that the entire city that he lives in is just mellow hills with some steep ones thrown in. There was actually one route we found where you start at his house and take a large loop (~

**Xgecko** · 05-18-2009 06:22 PM

Wheelabrator was yesterday....my old body was sore...I broke out my dancer and did some cross stepping and attempted some nose manuals but otherwise I took it easy

**Midway** · 05-19-2009 01:24 AM

Rode to my buddy's house to drop off his Gamecube controllers. No Natty Ice involved, thankfully.
After that, hit up a long, nicely-paved hill and hurt myself trying to cross step. I'll get it eventually.

**SoFlo** · 05-19-2009 06:05 PM

I decided I was gonna see how fast I can push around this 2.27 mile loop road at a local park today timed on my cell phone. The park is a mixture of flats, gentle ups, and gentle downs. I skate mongo and pushed that way probably 60 - 65% of the time, alternating to regular to keep fatigue down and pumped here and there on flats and slight downs.

I ended up doing it in 9:15 - almost a 4 minute mile with an average speed of almost 15mph! For being out of shape and never sprint skated before I'm quite pleased.

**d-loop** · 05-19-2009 08:51 PM

It was the best ride I've ever had! My Randall 180s showed up today, but that wasn't what made it so great, since I've already been borrowing my friend's set. When I got home from school (yaaaaaay for school almost being over!), I saw a huge box on my porch, and it contained by new trucks, as well as my Loaded Dervish deck. I know that there will be a lot of people hating on my new setup for getting that deck, but that's fine, I didn't get it to impress anyone.

Anyway, I've been riding a top-mounted Sector 9 cruiser, so I was really enjoying the way that it is a drop-through. It makes it easier to push, but the slides are heavenly (I have Retro Freeride Lemons). I had some consistent speed-checks going, both heelside and toeside, and had a great time.

**Midway** · 05-19-2009 09:24 PM

It was pretty nice. Listened to the Wings game all the way.

**JFire7** · 05-21-2009 02:06 AM

Today was for sure my best session ever. I've only been longboarding for a week, but today I slid out a hard carve and I was super stoked. I was also skating on a basketball court and some little kids came over because they thought my board was awesome, so I let this little six year old ride my apex 37 and he was so psyched. He also claimed that he had jumped out of an airplane and that his dad was 85 years old. Awesome day.

**alhart** · 05-21-2009 07:43 AM

Last weekend, me and my friend were stuck out in the middle of nowhere at my sisters boring soccer games. so we grabbed our boards and just started riding. we finally found this trail back in the forest and it was amazingly paved and we cruised on that for a while then finally we end up in this town 10 miles away after 45 mins. it was a ton of fun.

**d-loop** · 05-21-2009 06:06 PM

I had a great time today, and I finally learned stand up slides! I've been trying them for a couple of months, but I think that I got them today because of the combination of my new Dervish (instead of a top-mounted S9) and me being out of school/having all day to skate.