Longboard Techniques

Hello again everybody. Thank you for tuning in.

Today I will provide you with a link to a list longboarding techniques.  Okay the link is also to Wikipedia, but it is a very good list with some good definitions. However I did notice one thing wrong, they left out pushing.

Pushing may the first or second thing you need to learn for longboarding and skateboarding. To push all you do is choose a foot, plant it on the ground and push yourself along, it gets a little more complicated than that when considering stance  and what foot you push with. But here is a quick tip for complete newbie's, when pushing do it like your running with one foot and keep your feet parallel with each other and the board.

Here's the link Longboard Techniques

Dancing Video Post!

I have a quick post for you today, it’s a video of some great longboard dancing from loaded boards.

Check it out

Longboard Riding Styles

There are many different types of riding styles, some are alike while others are completely different. You might say there is a wide spectrum of longboard riding styles. I will list a few of the most popular and well defined types. I will also provide a simple definition and of explanation of each style.

Freeride: one of the most popular styles right now. There is a lot of speeding down hills, stand up and hands down sliding, carving, and some integration of freestyle tricks.

Freestyle: freestyle is a lot like freeride however there are a lot more tricks and a lot less hands down sliding. There is a lot of stand up sliding, jumping, flip tricks, manuals and anything you can think of at a slower speed and is more related to skateboarding.

Downhill: downhill longboarding is all about speed, hard carving, drifting and sliding hands down.

Slalom: slalom is also all about speed, but its speed is related to how fast you can carve and weave between cones going downhill.

The last three really can be grouped together as one style because if you do one your bound to do all three.

Dancing: is the art of maneuvering your feet and body in creative patterns while riding and staying balanced on top of your board.

Cruising: cruising is just as it sounds. You cruise around, maybe do some carving or dancing but mostly just ride and have fun

Carving: carving can be considered a technique and a style. It is a technique because it is used to as a riding tool to slow down, turn, pump, or just for fun. While carving the goal is to turn from left to right, right to left while moving in a certain direction.

Those are the types of longboarding styles I can remember off of the top of my head, however I know there are more styles mixed in there but these are the easily defined areas.

Anyway it's all relative

Andrew

Longboard Slide Video Post

The next video up features an interesting view of longboard sliding. Most of the slides in the video are high speed slides shown slowed down to give you a better look at the slide. Watching slide videos like this are great for studying form and technique.

Enjoy the video from Beanpole Productions and Loaded longboards

What? A Snowboard Post?

Okay I know this blog isn't about snowboarding but I couldn’t help myself because like many other longboarders, I too am a snowboarder. Its been getting colder and colder up here in my neck of the woods and its been raining so I have tried not to be sad about not longboarding so I've been focusing on my other "long"board, my snowboard.

So here is a cool video from DC and 0-60 Magazine

Ridiculous right, rally cars and snowboards…

Remember, it's all relative

Andrew

Very, Very Fast Video Post

Once again please pardon my bad puns, but when I seen this I had too post it. This video is of Mischo Erban going 130.08 km/h on a downhill board. Anyway check it out and be amazed.

Note: this video seams to be posted by the International Gravity Sports Association.

Loaded Longboard Challenges

Alright so I have decided to do a post for some of the more experienced riders. A lot of you already know about the Loaded challenges, but some still do not. Basically each challenge will test your riding ability and help you learn to become a better rider. It also could be a way to scrape up some huge savings!

To get these savings all you have to do is complete one Loaded challenge series. There are 10 tricks or techniques in each challenge series. If you complete a series on video and send it in to Loaded they will give you $100 off of any Loaded complete or $50 of off and Loaded deck.

Even if you do not want to do it for the money, you should still check the challenges out and challenge yourself to become a better rider.

Here is the link to the Loaded challenge series' and their website

http://loadedboards.com/

http://www.loadedboards.com/newsite_v1/publicMedia/challenges.html

Remember, it's all relative

Andrew