How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

**Chaunce** · 06-08-2009 05:47 PM

If your friend has trouble keeping up with you, you could try and convince him to go to a skate shop and pick up some cheap soft wheels for his shortboard. My friend got some nine balls at our local skate shop a while ago for about $25 to put on his street deck. Smooth ride, and you can still pop ollies here and there.

Skated to the grocery today barefoot. When I walked in I got kicked out, though..haha

**Jorelle** · 06-08-2009 06:18 PM

That's awesome Wendler! Don't you love how when you first start out you're willing to ditch friends to go skate :P I prefer to leave my wheels as is and leave them be dirty than rather have clean wheels and be called off as a poser. (I know a guy at my school who brings a longboard everyday but his wheels haven't even been broken in yet and have that shiny shiny gloss). Proof you ride it

As for me? I personally haven't been able to ride for a few days since I've been ill and recuperating and it's the last week of school. My (ONLY) longboarding buddy is moving away to Edmonton in a few days too so I'll have no one to skate with. My mom is also anal about me meeting some longboarders I got into contact in my city so...

**Wendler** · 06-08-2009 07:23 PM

Yea haha. I know you need to keep your trucks clean, but since it's dry as hell in Arizona, I don't think I'll be doing that often. [I don't go through puddles purposely or anything]

But, my grip tape got super dusty and I have some oil on it. I know this doesn't really matter but I like the board looking nice, any tips on cleaning that? No too sure if a cloth will work, nor compressed air etc.

Edit:

Chaunce, won't that give him wheelbite? Or will they still be small like skateboard ones?

**Jorelle** · 06-08-2009 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by Wendler

Yea haha. I know you need to keep your trucks clean, but since it's dry as hell in Arizona, I don't think I'll be doing that often. [I don't go through puddles purposely or anything]

But, my grip tape got super dusty and I have some oil on it. I know this doesn't really matter but I like the board looking nice, any tips on cleaning that? No too sure if a cloth will work, nor compressed air etc.

Haha I didn't mean through puddles, more just that it's been ridden and a bit 'dusty'.

I'd scrub it vigorously with a toothbrush and a mild cleaner I suppose.

**Chaunce** · 06-08-2009 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Wendler

Chaunce, won't that give him wheelbite? Or will they still be small like skateboard ones?

Depends on how low his setup is and how soft/hard his bushings are. The wheels my friend got were 65mm, and he never had a problem with them. I guess your friend could ask the people at the skate shop to try the wheels before buying. Just put them on the board and lean as hard as you can.

**Wendler** · 06-09-2009 11:21 PM

Another good day. Went up to the more desert-like places where the "rich people" live and did some downhill for the first time, very fun, very proud I didn't bail at all

Did some of that then did mild cruising down an angled road, ditched 1 of my friends [there was 4 of us total, 3 got in car and started driving back and forth around him]. Bad part is he actually darted out at the car while we were driving around and we kind of hit him, and he rolled off the side. lmao. He couldn't move his left arm for a while but he'll be fine, sprained wrist haha.

Overall fun day. Last day of riding till July 24rd

[Leaving for Argentina tomorrow]

**Thatoneguy** · 06-10-2009 11:40 PM

Well, I went to break in my lime bigzigs today. Didn't skate too long though, it was 90 degrees-ish. But i crossed paths with another random skater riding an evo like me, i thought that was kinda cool.

**Terrence** · 06-11-2009 02:08 AM

today was great

found a new hill, rode it, got someone to skitch me and friends up, repeated, danced, relaxed... i just wish it was a little longer, we were probably only outside for 2.5 hours...

**camlyks2lb** · 06-14-2009 11:09 PM

Yesterday I went to go bomb a hill, and it will probably be pretty mediocre for some of you, but to me it was pretty big. I started going down, then i started to get those gosh darn speed wobbles and soon worked out how to cure them...

Then out of the blue, my board flys out from under me, and i was going at a decent speed, i flew off and got this massive thing of road rash on my upper thigh! ouch

So today I came back to that hill and thought, I'm gonna do this. So i went down and decided to be smart and carve it a little and tada! I'm at the bottom feeling stoked!!

**cord13** · 06-15-2009 09:41 AM

yesterday i somehow ended up on a paved trail, and ended up riding 5 miles down and 5 miles back. rode all of it in 1 hour, 10 minuites.

**Hubs** · 06-15-2009 04:07 PM

I was riding with one of my friends and he tried to jump off of his board over a chain that was hanging between two posts and land back on his board. He was going about 10 mph and caught his foot and landed flat on his face, funniest thing I've ever seen.

**Jorelle** · 06-15-2009 06:35 PM

Fun stuff just practising. I have my cross steps, walk the planks, peter pans. counter clockwise step rotation down confidently and I'm starting to style them now.
Working on toe side cross steps & back, clockwise turn steps, nose manuals, 180 nose pivots, tiger claws and guillotine tricks.

**DHBM** · 06-15-2009 06:45 PM

skating was fun today/ but nearly as good as the 7 foot waves here in coronado.... zomg great day

**PimaBombz** · 06-15-2009 08:19 PM

Today was great. My first ride in my new home of Seattle. Great hills to cruise all around me, and even better weather (for now

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**anatharc** · 06-19-2009 10:35 AM

been working on riding switch and decided to kick it up a notch and try sliding. man...harder wheels makes such a difference. went from 78a to 83a. bam!

got my switch standup 180 yesterday! so stoked. couple that with some switch colemans and speed checks and i feel fanfrickintastic.
now i just gotta master em.

**OHboarding** · 06-19-2009 02:33 PM

Out for twenty minutes, about 3 maybe 4 miles from
my house and it started pouring. It wasn't a fun ride home..

**WizzKidd** · 06-19-2009 03:42 PM

I finally got my stand up 180's down today.

**xedell** · 06-19-2009 04:05 PM

i had a fun slide sesh trying to get my toeside pendys an my heelside matrix slides ( i dont know what there called but they look like a hands down heelside 180 wthout a hand down) down but then i broke/sprained my thumb by sliding under a car

oh god it hurts and go skateboarding day is coming right up

i really hope i get good pain meds for this

**Xgecko** · 06-19-2009 06:42 PM

woke up to torrential rain, cancelled the slalom session I had planned for today talked to some buddies about hitting the indoor pay park an hour from here made a picnic dinner as the day progressed the weather got better and better but until 2 the ground was still wet and then at 3pm the sun came out and the sky turned blue....I called friends to bail on indoor skating and spent 3 hours at the local concrete park....I am tired, sore and content my new board is very fun

**MTBmixer** · 06-19-2009 08:08 PM

After getting all my general BS done for the day, I got home, had a couple of shots of Milagro Tequila, an ice cold Tecate and hit the street in front of my house with my Sec9 Uluwatu...I live at the top of a hill, first house on a 1/2 mile, approx. 40 degree hill that bottoms for about 49 yards and then goes up to the same on the other side...just resurfaced last year so it's kinda like a longboard riders dream pipe(or is that pipe dream?)...usually about 20 cars on this street a day max, so I own it just about anytime I get out there...gentlemen, life don't get no better than this in the deep south...wish you could join me....