How long do you think this slide was??

**Dr Repper** · 01-04-2008 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by RastamanD

new video guys....if you care

YouTube - longboarding 3

edit: sorry about calling wd an ass but to me he came off as being one but seeing as you guys are backing him up i gladly take back that statement....but i would still like my gravity board forum account to be activated, i mean i did spend an assload of money there, and i would like to have input in the forums

Getting there dude. Put a lid on, find a longer hill and go faster! When you do a coleman, try swinging your leading arm across a bit further, so the pit of your elbow is by your mouth. This should cause your upper body to rotate more, bringing the board around further, faster. Once you've gone around 180 and you feel that the board wants to swing back, throw your arm forcefully back the other way and bring your body forward and over the board. You may highside a few times at this point until you get the timing right but you'll eventually end up doing slick, drawn out pendies.

On your toeside, you want to turn your head so that you're looking down the hill throughout the slide (this means that you'll have to look first over your right shoulder, then your left as the board swings back). As you come into the second part of the pendy (or third of fourth depending on how much speed you have/how long you want the slide to be), pull the board back under you with your feet. If you stay stretched out, you end up sliding to a hault stuck in a pushup position that's pretty hard to get out of with no speed (at least it is for me, being fat and unfit).

I'll try to post up some video in the next few days which may help. Don't get me wrong, I'm a pretty crappy trick slider, but tasty long pendies I can do.

**RastamanD** · 01-04-2008 11:40 AM

thanks i am looking foward to seeing your video

**AGENT WD-40** · 01-05-2008 11:07 AM

Shoooot, sorry bro. Definitely didnt mean to come off as an ass, the video just stopped at 17 secs. for me so all I saw was you swooping through the turn (Before your slide even started).

As for the Gravity forum account, the forum has been down at work, plus we have all been out of the office for the past few weeks for Christmas break. What is your username? PM me on here with the username and I'll approve you asap.

**mikenike605** · 01-05-2008 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by TheEskimoMan891

same here

and mikenike
what is the name of the hill that your talking?

the hill is called NW Lacamas lane it empties out into NW Lake road there is a couple of other roads they are closer to my house so i use them more(all on the NW side of the hill), one though is a really steep hill that just ends i tried sliding to a stop while bombing while it was dry but i was using new wheels and they started skipping down the pavement lost the evo part of the way and it just rolled away luckily its ok. there is a paved trail they also made going in and out of those niegborhoods im gonna get my broom and try and clear the gravel when its dry for some good bombing.

**blink2wice** · 01-05-2008 01:48 PM

this is a mans slide YouTube - balls out bitches sliding style

**New Brian** · 01-05-2008 11:04 PM

Pretty damn good. I love the high speed.

Originally Posted by blink2wice

this is a mans slide YouTube - balls out bitches sliding style

**Dr Repper** · 01-15-2008 06:42 AM

Hello again dude.

Here's a link to a thread on the lush forum. The first video is of me doing a couple of toeside pendies. Excuse the form between slides, it was the end of a long session and my back/knees were killing me!

Lush Longboards: View topic - High wycombe Jam

Hope you can see what I mean about looking down the hill and pulling the board back in with your feet to exit the slide (at least on the first one, I hit thecurb on the second).

**rips4stoke** · 01-15-2008 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by Dr Repper

Hello again dude.

Here's a link to a thread on the lush forum. The first video is of me doing a couple of toeside pendies. Excuse the form between slides, it was the end of a long session and my back/knees were killing me!

Lush Longboards: View topic - High wycombe Jam

Hope you can see what I mean about looking down the hill and pulling the board back in with your feet to exit the slide (at least on the first one, I hit thecurb on the second).

...erg...I hate hitting curbs

feels kind of like this I guess:

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...then WHAM!!!!