a little help please!?

**Longboarder1254** · 11-01-2006 07:08 PM

hi my name is mark and ive been longboarding down hills for about 2 years and i was thinking about trying salom i weigh 140 im about 5"10 i was wondering if you could give me advice on a good board for carving but i want it to also be able to bomb down hills so just like advice on trucks deck wheels and gloves? thanks!

**WalkTogether** · 11-01-2006 07:22 PM

Slalom, carving, and bombing all in one?

**pithaya** · 11-01-2006 07:23 PM

Wait, do you want to slalom or carve up the hills?? Or bomb full speed? For slalom, theres lots of TS and HS setups in the buy and sell forum and you can build yer own reading the stickies in this forum. If what you want is some great downhill carving then a GS/SGS or a topmount speedboard like a comet or something will be good for that. For straighter bombing maybe a drop board like a kebbek or landy.
For gloves, you can make your own with some gardening gloves, velcro and hard cutting board.

**KennyT772** · 11-01-2006 07:24 PM

seeing how slalom and bombing are completly opposite with carving in between im going to say you are asking the impossible.

**Mister Surly** · 11-01-2006 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Longboarder1254

hi my name is mark and ive been longboarding down hills for about 2 years and i was thinking about trying salom i weigh 140 im about 5"10 i was wondering if you could give me advice on a good board for carving but i want it to also be able to bomb down hills so just like advice on trucks deck wheels and gloves? thanks!

well, if you want to run "tight" cones, you'll need a shorter deck. my opinion is that a good 36-inch deck is great to blend all of those things. chi-ill skateboards has a GS [giant slalom] deck that would work for cruising, carving, bombing, and yes...coning. the pocket pistols 36-inch is nice too. a set of tracker RTX-RT-S trucks are cheap and work well. i have a "garage bomber" that i use indpendent 129's on. wheels ... hmmm, gumballs, fumanchus, grippins, manx, avalons ... alot to choose from. heck, my friend runs a 40 inch deck with indy 149's and kryptos, and he runs cones with it very extremely well, then goes and rides the local ditch, bombing hills on the way there!

good luck