How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

**8ftbed** · 05-26-2009 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Chingyul

Woo, first post here.
Finally got The Pusher on the trail for the first time.
Did 16 km with a friend on blades.
I'm liking the cruising, very relaxed, and the board rolls good!!

Google Maps Track

Track done with iphone gps (motionx). Not too shabby.

stoked to hear that as my Pusher will be shipping this week :: double woot!

**Midway** · 05-27-2009 02:14 AM

Spent today riding some hills at Hines Park. Along the way, got a little sore in the ankle from a funky push on gravel so I sat on this half-submerged picnic bench pushed into the lake. When I got up to leave, there was this older guy standing there with his dog. He thought I was fishing, but when he saw the board he started asking questions about it, how much it cost, what it was made of, how fast, etc. He then proceeded to just talk for the next hour. I didn't stop him. I didn't want to. He told me about his life, the things he did, the way things used to be, the things he had figured out about life in general. It was really...cool. 86 years old and still walking the dog twice a day.

I hope I get to do something like that when I'm his age, just corner some youngster and tell him or her about my life and have them listen.

**Fantasma** · 05-27-2009 12:08 PM

Today i rode my street which is taken in half for roadworks (wohooow)

i "cruised" on the unsteep downhill part (learning to carve goofy while i'm normally regular ) and it was funny to see all the headstrong people ignoring 2 roadsigns saying the road was blocked....

Really enjoyed it... too bad it started to rain and i had to go home

**sAMOa** · 05-27-2009 12:16 PM

Skogging is one way for old guys to keep skating and stay in shape. At 55, I'm enjoying the ride of my life! Legs stay in good shape when you skog!

cool story. going for a skog or a skate in the park, you are potentially setting yourself up for meeting people! I've met tons of people riding my deck thru the parks and beach. Sharing your life stories is part of life and meeting strangers and hitting it off is an experience that adds wisdom to your life!

Nice post!

cYask8

Originally Posted by Midway

Spent today riding some hills at Hines Park. Along the way, got a little sore in the ankle from a funky push on gravel so I sat on this half-submerged picnic bench pushed into the lake. When I got up to leave, there was this older guy standing there with his dog. He thought I was fishing, but when he saw the board he started asking questions about it, how much it cost, what it was made of, how fast, etc. He then proceeded to just talk for the next hour. I didn't stop him. I didn't want to. He told me about his life, the things he did, the way things used to be, the things he had figured out about life in general. It was really...cool. 86 years old and still walking the dog twice a day.

I hope I get to do something like that when I'm his age, just corner some youngster and tell him or her about my life and have them listen.

**Freakshow** · 05-30-2009 01:18 AM

rode to go see a movie today...
pumped the whole mile or two in 6-10 min on my LBL komodo... oh man can she pump now..im having soo much fun with this board

**phil6x** · 05-30-2009 11:34 AM

thursday- did a 2 milesprint with a friend -6 minutes 40 seconeds
friday- drank at a party and raced people around the parking lot and did a bunch of standups
today- was sopposed to go to the city for a race but that didnt happen so il prolly cruise later
tommrow - i have a 4page resarch paper to type

**El Capitan** · 06-02-2009 10:30 PM

Been doing the same run for the past 3 days. Its just a every so slightly curved road that has a nice incline on it. Then I've been going to a parking lot that has a hairpin that goes uphill on the end. Ive been working on cornering, which i have down toeside but not heelside as much. I'm having a problem with were my knees go. Oh, and while i was doing the usual run, some lady walking with her friend shouted something that sounded like "Speed bump", and then right after her some guy yelled "Be Careful." All in all really good rides this week.

**Smokey Bear** · 06-02-2009 10:40 PM

I had a pretty nice ride today, I'm on vacation in Hilton Head Island, SC and I have to say it's nice to have some place new to skate. Being the beach, everything is completely flat so this morning I skated for close to 4 miles on the golf cart paths around the resort and down to the beach. I got a few runs in at a sweet 7 level parking structure in Savanah, GA last night before security asked me to leave. It's midnight now and I'm about to go to some of the garages I scoped out earlier by the hotels on the beach.

NAKED SKATE '09 IS COMING SOON!
(it's my beach vacation tradition)

**Jorelle** · 06-02-2009 11:01 PM

Scraped my arm up learning how to Coleman. Maybe Inheats aren't good wheels to learn how to slide on...

**Muchano** · 06-03-2009 04:55 AM

Skated about 14 miles up and down the coastal trail with some buddies.
Was almost trampled by a moose on the way back.
Got home at around midnight, but it was fine, because the sun doesn't set until like 12:30 over here.
Oh, and I also managed to collide with my friend.
I was the only one with scrapes. Like always.

**Bookworm** · 06-04-2009 09:19 AM

leaving in a few hours to go skate all day! I'm super stoked!

**DHBM** · 06-04-2009 09:26 AM

gunna go cruise on the board walk after i clean my house ugh... then possibly carve up the boarwalk skog a bit then i donno...

**curlywhit1** · 06-04-2009 03:20 PM

Hit up Lake Calhoun (Minneapolis) this morning. Afternoons get too crowded. I think it's about 3 miles so it was a nice ride. It hadn't hit 70 degrees when I was out there so it was nice and cool and sunny. Perfect weather. I'm still learning so there were a couple flailing arm moments that brought attention my way...

**vermontvermont** · 06-04-2009 07:25 PM

I started out doing some neighborhood cruising and stand up slides, and then I did some highway skating with my buddy. After that we drove to a pretty fun hill and I went the fastest I've ever gone (I think it was only like 35 mph, I haven't been skating too long,) and we were pretty stoked. Then I went home and broke my elbow while doing stand up slides in my driveway. After 4 hours in the ER, they told me I can't skate for a month. Sigh.... but a pretty solid day until the break.

**El Capitan** · 06-04-2009 09:06 PM

Lost control of my board twice, first time decided to run off cause I'm a moron and there was a care coming around the corner. Second time i was taking the corner but was way to far back for some reason and slide on my ass and had to run after my board. Both times it hit theses big rocks on someones driveway. Got really lucky it didnt hit their garage door. Was working on my slides though and that was decently fun. Then went and did a speed run 3 times. The last time i was to far forward on my board in a tuck, and i couldnt steer right so that was sketchy cause i was getting wobbly and I had to stick my arm out and lean hard to steer. Gotta go make a bumper now cause i dont want the nose of my board to take more hits.

Overall, not the best day of the week but i was shown a new slide spot thats really close to my house so thats good.

**Bookworm** · 06-04-2009 10:08 PM

AWESOME.

10awesomedays

**Xgecko** · 06-06-2009 01:12 PM

Had a nice morning in the skatepark after I booted a bunch of Grom BMXer's out...throwing cones tonight with a couple of guys

**sctr9er** · 06-07-2009 06:26 PM

just finished up my new board, got half a block and pulled a muscle right under my ass on my right leg. not cool at all but here is the board

**8ftbed** · 06-07-2009 07:54 PM

Absolutely the best! Longest/most I've skated in one day yet. Five kids showed up and we surfed the hood for 6 hours rotating through a handful of boards I broke out. I haven't had this much pure fun since I can remember.

Oh and did some tweaks too. I was regretting ever ordering the power nose and jaw bones. Big 9" things didn't fit #### that I had. Or so I thought. Started with the 36 Poolking Resurrection. After drilling and mounting a jaw and bone, I let the kids go through the sticker collection and bling it up. Put some Gravity drifters on it and replaced the system skate bearings with MHS', spacers and speed rings. Suddenly this board (which I didn't really care for before) is now a cool ride and looks loved.

Ok, so I grab the Landy Dragon which also has a tail and nose. It was the first board I ever ordered and had ordered it with Gumballs which resulted in wheelbite like a bitch which resulted in my sanding and polyurethaning some wells but still got some wheelbite and it had kind of sat neglected since. Mount the jaw/nose bones, replaced the gumballs with another set of them Gravity drifters, MHS' bearings and stuff. Let the crew do the sticker honors. COOL!! I had one more set of bones and put them on the new Ghoti Manatee. Took it for a test drive and in a real hard carve (luckily slow) I got wheelbite in the front and did my impression of a yard dart!

Jumped up and walked back to the garage. Discovered I had one set of 1/4" Khiro risers and put them on. Problem solved and man... did I say how cool this board is.

I'm hoping for a long, dry summer!

**Wendler** · 06-08-2009 05:10 PM

Feels good to finally post on this thread, been lurking on it for quite some time now.

I bought my sector 9 Kommi yesterday at Cowtown and love it. I tightened it a bit when I bought it so it's not super loose, but I'm just so amazed on how smooth it is. It's so cool how far just one or two kicks will take you opposed to on a skateboard.

I bought it and went over to my friend's house and started off, was kind of surprised how fast the wheels got dirty haha. I don't think I'm supposed to keep those clean, am I o.O?

The beggining of the day wasn't as amazing as it could, I'm in Arizona and it was hot as hell. The bad part about it all it all is that my friend only has a skateboard, and it's hard for him to keep up / go long distances, especially on the road where there's no sidewalks. We did that for a while of switching back and forth and it got kind of annoying for him so we went back inside. I did a short cruise [Like maybe a mile] by myself down this nice bike path near his house, that was fun.

Then we rode over to a school that's about 3/4 mile away from his house, hopped the fence and started riding, was awesome. Super smooth sidewalks clear from any debris, but it was really hot so after about 30 minutes we headed back inside.

Around 9 or so I went out alone again [he was too tired] and the weather was amazingly perfect. It was bright enough for you to see perfectly but not bright enough to hurt your eyes, it was cool with occasional nice breeze, loved it, too bad it didn't last long.

Around 10 PM or so we rode to the Wendy's and got a bite to eat, then rode back, about 15 minutes later we decided to drive over to Little Ceaser's and get some pizza. [I eat a lotttttt for only weighing about 140 or so]. That's when fun started, from 10:30 till maybe 11:45 we were just riding around in the empty parking lot [there was 1 car in the corner] eating pizza. Was very fun.