Re: who or what is stifling your skate stoke?
My stoke level is doing just fine. In fact, I may be too stoked, as I have been putting off just about EVERYTHING else for riding
Things that bother me about longboarding though, thats a different story.
#1 The damn security guards at the fastest garage around us. We usually get only 1 or MAYBE 2 runs in before they kick us out, threaten us w police etc..
#2 People in cars that drive on the wrong side of the road. Even in neighborhoods, stay in your lane.
And most of all - the kids i've met with $500 carbon-fibre race decks, $350 precision trucks, and $300+ full face helmets, that can't even heelside pendy and that when I take on 35mph run, they say it is "too fast" 
c'mon now
Dammit Kids Stop Buying, More Riding. I never thought i'd even see longboard posers, but when there are kids with nearly $1000 dollar DH set-ups looking scared on hills i can bomb on my sisters flex 5 vanguard, you know the scene has been infiltrated
Proud supporter of Cindrich, Soda Factory, Jati, Rayne, Earthwing, Paris, Randal, Independent, Venom, Otang, and Abec 11 products
LBATL!
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