Michigan Longboarding!

**DejaEntendu** · 02-26-2009 08:53 PM

Hey guys - haven't been on this forum in ages. Anyway, my name is Ashley. I live in Flint/Flushing area and have been boarding for.. like 8 years now? Jesus. Longboarding around 6, but just longboarding in the past three years. Looking forward to the end of winter, hopefully see some of you around. Always up for meeting new people

**yerkeswood** · 02-26-2009 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by DejaEntendu

Hey guys - haven't been on this forum in ages. Anyway, my name is Ashley. I live in Flint/Flushing area and have been boarding for.. like 8 years now? Jesus. Longboarding around 6, but just longboarding in the past three years. Looking forward to the end of winter, hopefully see some of you around. Always up for meeting new people

You should check out "Madness in the Mitten" in the events thread. Its a 4 mi. flatland race in lansing and there should be a ton of Michigan boarders there. April 18th.

**Petary791** · 02-26-2009 10:05 PM

Truth, come and race! That's sick that you've been skating for so long. We've got a nice little scene over here in East Lansing, so if you're down for skating just contact me or some other MSU guys.

Nice Brand New reference by the way!

**kyle_vk** · 02-26-2009 11:58 PM

Alright well i'm not sure what time my buddies are gonna be out but hopefully it'll be early afternoon so we can come ride

Originally Posted by BloodBros.Skates

Come one come all, we are planning on skating hills on Saturday. Sunday RandalPink03 (Ross) and I are going to ride the 11am-2pm session at Modern and then hit some more hills. Hit us up if you want to join. You already have my cell # in the PM I sent earlier in the week.

**DejaEntendu** · 02-27-2009 10:42 AM

Yeah! I've been sort of lurking here for awhile, reading around. That madness in the mitten event looks sweet. I've boarded around there a couple times, like the area

I'd totally be down for skating with some of you MSU guys, though.

Thanks, love Brand New

**Tagsrover** · 02-27-2009 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by DejaEntendu

Yeah! I've been sort of lurking here for awhile, reading around. That madness in the mitten event looks sweet. I've boarded around there a couple times, like the area

I'd totally be down for skating with some of you MSU guys, though.

Thanks, love Brand New

Hellz yeah new people to skate with, what board (or boards) do you have?

**Doors** · 02-27-2009 12:41 PM

Checked out the spot for tomorow at 7am...
Smooooth pavement, probly hit 40 or so. Problem is theirs a cross walk at the bottom of the hill made out of bricks so that could get sketchy.
Theirs a tight left turn before the cross walk that could avoid it though.
Backside of the hills nice too

**Petary791** · 02-27-2009 05:15 PM

Great job, Doors! I'll have the complete setup for my DH so we'll do it up. Still down for skating between 3/7 and 3/14?

**DejaEntendu** · 02-27-2009 07:09 PM

Right now I ride a Sector 9 Bomb Hills (platinum) with Gullwing sidewinders and some shitty wheels off an older board.. love it when my animals get hold of my new equipment, right?

But that's the one in my quiver I use anyway. Two other 9's in there, and a home-made "experiment".

Hopefully buying a SurfRodz Thresher in the very near future

**yerkeswood** · 02-27-2009 08:30 PM

Ordered my Evo today w/ Bear 1052's, bones swiss, and already have the big zigs. Looking to hit that gently curving 38-40 mph hill that has a nice sub division at top and golf course at the bottom

. You know what I'm talking about.

Also got the orange freerides on the way. Next week is gonna be better than christmas for me.

Is anyone else from lansing going to the Chicago slalom on March 21st? I'm looking to get my slalom setup right before this and maybe go on a day or two worth of practice. I dont really care if I get slaughtered. Anyone want to carpool? If we can get a few guys I'd go because it would only be like $50-60 (food,gas,$25 optional entry) each for the day. I just want to get my feet wet before the wiggle war.

**Randelpink03** · 02-27-2009 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by yerkeswood

Ordered my Evo today w/ Bear 1052's, bones swiss, and already have the big zigs. Looking to hit that gently curving 38-40 mph hill that has a nice sub division at top and golf course at the bottom

. You know what I'm talking about.

Also got the orange freerides on the way. Next week is gonna be better than christmas for me.

Is anyone else from lansing going to the Chicago slalom on March 21st? I'm looking to get my slalom setup right before this and maybe go on a day or two worth of practice. I dont really care if I get slaughtered. Anyone want to carpool? If we can get a few guys I'd go because it would only be like $50-60 (food,gas,$25 optional entry) each for the day. I just want to get my feet wet before the wiggle war.

I think I am in for this. Not sure how its going to work out with school and everything, but would be down to car pool too if it all works out. PM me later and well figure it out. Word

**Petary791** · 02-27-2009 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by yerkeswood

Ordered my Evo today w/ Bear 1052's, bones swiss, and already have the big zigs. Looking to hit that gently curving 38-40 mph hill that has a nice sub division at top and golf course at the bottom

. You know what I'm talking about.

Also got the orange freerides on the way. Next week is gonna be better than christmas for me.

Is anyone else from lansing going to the Chicago slalom on March 21st? I'm looking to get my slalom setup right before this and maybe go on a day or two worth of practice. I dont really care if I get slaughtered. Anyone want to carpool? If we can get a few guys I'd go because it would only be like $50-60 (food,gas,$25 optional entry) each for the day. I just want to get my feet wet before the wiggle war.

Right on, I got my Comet Voodoo coming. And I'm thinking about Freerides, but I really dig my Flies.

Tagsrover and I are going, and feenixx might be too. You should be able to join us.

**Tagsrover** · 02-28-2009 07:34 AM

Yeah, i was already planning to drive petary down, and possibly feenixx, so i still got room for 2 more in my car and you are welcome. Also, once (or if) my slalom board ever gets here then we should get together for some practice. #### YEAH SLALOM

and DUDE BRAH, you gotta let me try out those orange freeriders so i know whether or not to buy orange or yeller. GET PUMPED FOR SUMMA BEYOTCHES!

**yerkeswood** · 02-28-2009 08:45 AM

Awesome. Save me a seat. I'm trying to sell my brother on it but he's being a puss. If Al's planning on going and I can talk Jay into it than we'll end up driving seperate, but if not I'm rollin with you boys8).

And yes, you can definitely drool around on my oranges.

**PeterWeinrauch** · 02-28-2009 08:48 AM

Went out with some buds a few days ago

YouTube - Longboarding - Complete The Map

Can't wait for the 18th

Watch till the end for the mega shit

**Tagsrover** · 02-28-2009 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by yerkeswood

Looking to hit that gently curving 38-40 mph hill that has a nice sub division at top and golf course at the bottom

. You know what I'm talking about.

WHERE? I don't know where you are talking about

**yerkeswood** · 02-28-2009 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Tagsrover

WHERE? I don't know where you are talking about

the beek.

Nice video Pete, way to rep GG. Like the 'helmet' scene. This would be a cool way to show the Madness in the Mitten Race... but I'm sure you were already thinking that.

**Doors** · 03-01-2009 06:20 AM

Franklin rd. = way slower than i thought

Not worth it...

**Tagsrover** · 03-01-2009 07:48 AM

Shreded the gnar the last two days, taught 2 new girls how to skate, finally got my park board dialed in (I am now even more convinced that rainskates are the sickest, i said SICKEST, park wheels in the history of life), did a bunch of dancing, did a bert slide, still failed at doing standup 180's

, worked on my manuals, my venom eliminators came in and they are way sicker than green stims (anyone want some green stims?), and of course it's snowing today, so i guess my weekend riding is done

**Petary791** · 03-01-2009 10:40 AM

Time to agree with everything Tagsrover said. Ska1234 (starter of this thread!) came up with a couple buddies to visit Friday night. We fit 7 people and about 11 boards in a Trailblazer, and shredded the gnarliest garage in East Lansing for an hour or so. We taught a kid how to skate on an Ed Economy. We skated until I almost hit a car coming up head on (holy sh!t I've never been so scared skating in a long time), then a very friendly cop came about 30 minutes later to say that we weren't getting tickets but we had to get out. So we just went to a different garage. After looking up the Municode, we learned that the tickets for skating garages are $5-$20. Cheap lift tickets anyone?

The next day we got up at 9ish, skated some sidewalk runs because Spring Awakening was going on at the garage I wanted to hit. These sidewalk runs are actually relatively fun, and you can definitely work on your drifting on some hairpins. One of the runs even has a left and a right hairpin. We got a 3 person draft train going and went really far around campus surprisingly. The streetboarder broke a wheel off his board so I kicked like the dickens back to my dorm to grab my Purple Heart and we skated a little bit longer. We went to McDonald's and I realized at 1:05 that I was supposed to be at work 5 minutes ago. I ended up sprinting, Good Deal style, back to my dorm and was at late 15 minutes early. Clocked out at 4, was at the skatepark at 4:15! Skated longboards, boardwalkers, slideboards, banana boards, and street decks through Ranney Skatepark for a couple hours, then called it a night because Preston and them had a gig that night. And if you're wondering what the best all around slide and park wheels are, get some 98A Rainskates and don't look back! These things are obscenely fast in the park, in the garage, and actually quiet when you slide. I got my frontside 180's, switch frontside 180's, and switch backside 180's down on hard wheels. I'm working on my frontside 360's too.

After eating some dinner and playing some Super Smash Bro's we headed out to the more mellow garage on campus. This time we only jammed 6 people in the Trailblazer. The collective taught my friend Ally and our friend Carly's roommate how to skate up on top. After 2 runs, Ally was carving the whole garage by herself. I worked on carving it switch to keep a reasonable speed for the new skaters, and I was getting way more comfortable with it. I also got my 4 wheel frontside slides down pat, my frontside 180's almost down, and I'm working on the backside speed checks.

The stoke is palpable in East Lansing; get your long johns, jeans, sweatshirt, hoodie, vest, and coat on and get up here! It'll be even better when it's warm. Not to mention we have a relatively slow (25ish) DH spot to shred.