This is the best Longboarding movie i have seen this year. Digging the mic'd up riders, and the idea of following him in a car as he narrates is really smooth. This was perfect.
Hey Louie it's me Joey with Go Longboarding Day! This is sick. Thanks EG for linking me to this! This just changed my view on downhill bombing. Time to go practice!
The video edit was sick. The concept of narrating while freeriding is sick. The follow cam in the car is sick. (How did you guys mount the camera to get such a stable shot?) The skating is sick. THIS IS FCKING SICK! One of the best skate videos I've seen!
When you think about it, skating is a REALLY odd thing to love to do. People who don't skate never understand why we like it so much and if you put yourself in their shoes it kind of makes sense haha. I don't know what it is about skating that I love but I know I'll never stop doing it. To quote the great Louis Pilloni, "Get on your board, ride down a hill, grind a bank, snap an ollie. Skateboard."
Here I am a decade later, reading your comment as a novice longboarder, and this comment still rings true. I get funny looks or straight up amazement from people when I tell them I usually cover the 5 mile ride to my work on my board. And yes, it‘s not easy, but it‘s just so damn fun!
@EinYeTi I'd stick with the 70mm's simply because it works with tons of free ride boards. 70mm is like the happy medium. Offset meaning the core is off-center, being slightly more towards the inside of the wheel.
@powking86 no it doesnt look close at the end. its not a vugenhaussen nor is the tail bolted on. i have a chopped voodoo xl with a kicktail bolted onto it.
@SummerConspiracy Yea I was thinking they look most like the 70mm or the 73mm but the 70's have a 50mm contact patch as opposed to the 73's with a 40mm so idk which would have been better for freeride as seen in the video. what do you mean by offset?
@SnoMan1818 you should start by trying to make deeper and more charged carving. it also depends on how loose your trucks are + if your wheels have sharp edges ( not been broken in yet) it'll be more harder for you to slide. When you're carving you'll feel that in some point the wheels stop having contact with floor on that moment you'll realize your almost sliding after you get the idea of what it is it's just using the same science but trying to focus on the contact between wheels and floor.
@TheZC13 practice practice ;). No seriously, PRACTICE like crazy. Usually I push uphill or anywhere switch, just to get experience. Lately I've committed full days to riding switch, doing slides, carving, even just grabbing rail and lightly bombing and tucking. It's REALLY tough at first, but after a month or three, you'll notice a LOT of growth. Also, you'll want a bidirectional board (symmetrical length-wise) so as to get those switch 180's to regular. Makes it more fun :)
@cabeSR1234 i get like sideways curves but then i just keep going right (im goofy btw) its like i carve hard and its like a hard turn i cant get the full 180 im at a 90 degree turn right now... also should i get different wheels because right now i have 70mm 75a Nineball Wheels.. im pretty new to this whole thing i got my first and only board on christmas.. its 42 inches but its a surfboard shape idk if that matters with sliding but i was wondering if i should get a 9 star type of construction
@robotrock909 No I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do that. My guess is the first bit and the bit where the car bumps up would be him talking properly and the rest recorded after and edited in.
i suggest to get a baseplate at like 44 degrees and get some VENOM SHR bushings and do a board side 91 red and road side 88 sea foam. its a really good combo for fast downhill and good freeride. just adjust the tighnest and ur good.
@SnoMan1818 well you should firstly start by using harder wheels since the softer they are the more gripper they're ofc. In my opinion otangs are one of the best wheels for longboarding around. I'd advise you to get 86 A wheels, those are the harder available in otang variety stimulus are made for free ride and sliding. You can always look for slide guides at youtube. If you need to know about anything else send me a pm . Peace
