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Same. |
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I'm fairly tall (6'4" / 193cm), and I've just never had the balance to stay on a skateboard for longer than 3 seconds. Don't even think about asking me to change directions on one. :D |
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I DONT GIVE A FUCK |
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Not yet. I have a project that will be finished in 3 weeks. By then, it will be too cold for me to swim in the sea, so I will be back to swimming in the pool to prevent me from becoming (more of) a fat knacker over winter as my main exercise. I want to get a longboard for commuting to this. I will fav+ the thread and shall bump this when I have one. What sort of gloves would you recommend? |
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Ouch @ 6.03. Those guys looked liked they were wearing motorcycle leathers. |
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I'm 6'1" and you just have to do what you have to do to stay alive and make the tricks you can do happen. Ceri JC: Whoa ! my FAV+ also :) |
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snowboarding is fun and relaxing. love it. |
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and this is when I realised this thread is about skateboarding. |
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im sure it is...never been anywhere with enough snow to try it though : / |
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Ceri, regarding gloves you may have to improvise a bit. I did a brief search and only found heavyduty sliding gloves which will probably be totally overboard for someone just starting out... Personally i dont use gloves, but ive gashed my hands enough times to know they would come in useful, the nearest i can think of is a pair of cycling gloves for protecting the base of your palms. I am considering modding some leather gardening gloves with sliding blocks to start applying some more bodacious slides etc :p Those french skaters in the video are wearing bike leathers and helmets, the speeds they reach are ridiculous, im sure. |
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On the subject of gardening gloves, heavy duty ones give the best abrasion protection. They actually did a big expose in one of the motorcycling magazines on how they were better in all tests, bar impact, than all motorcycle gloves you could buy, bar some £600 ones that some Moto GP riders use. By glueing thick density foam to the backs of them, they match the other gloves on impact too! Aside from the (dubious) looks, you wind up with the best gloves in the world for £6/7. I assumed there'd be special longboarding gloves, because of the sliding people seem to do on them in videos, but perhaps making your own is the answer? |
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Right, I've finally bought a board; not a longboard, but a Rip-stik caster board. I had a go on one in toys 'R us whilst shopping for my nephew's xmas present and was instantly hooked. Not so great for tricks (compared to a normal board), but that suits me fine and seeing as the thing I dislike most about normal boards is having to take my foot off and push, it seems ideal (although quite different to normal 'boarding). This doesn't mean I won't be getting a longboard. I'm hoping that once I've gotten the hang of it/find I am actually using it/funds permit, I'll probably get a longboard too. |
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My Ripstik just arrived. Much harder on my wood panelled hall than toys r us' rink-like vinyl flooring. Oh well, I'd best venture out down the park at lunchtime and risk the pointing and laughing of kids as I wobble like a n00b. :D |
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Managed to go arse over tit in the park twice, getting overly-optomistic about my downhill abilities after only 20 minutes on it. Lunchtime was spend over a big car park getting used to it, I'm definately improving, although it's absolutely knackering. I picked up some gloves too, to stop me mullering my hands every time I come off. |
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after a few hard crashes after jumps i changed my style into more rodeny mullen - flatland stuff. i alwasy admired this guy |
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ceri JC is on a posting frenzy !@!!! sadist, like yeah Rodney pwnes, ahve you seen say, "almost round III" he does thse insane primo slides id skate today, but there is 6" of snow out |
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good news! |
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i started riding again this past summer after taking like 5 years off. mostly because i live close enough to work that I can ride back and forth in about 15 min. I don't do any tricks anymore except ollies up curbs and down a couple steps. It took a while to regain back skills after such a long break. I've fallen a bunch of times on the way to work including a few months ago when i slipped going downhill and cracked my ribs. but my falls have become less frequent as i've regained my balance on the thing. |
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I took it out again last night and went down the whole length of the main road through town. Surprisingly quick and a good surface, as well as no traffic & one-way. I'm still at that stage where I'm getting appreciably better each ride. Am going out with a mate at lunchtime to practice. |
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I used to ride a unicycle; the most fun transportation I've ever used. But now I never do it because it is unconventional. So people will look at you. And I hate eye contact and socializing and people. Skateboards seemed gay. Hard small wheels + tiny little pebble + nothing to hold on to = crash. |
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i always admired how that t looks like mullens board weights like nothing - i mean i always had to put like so much power into ollies and flips that i used the whole body and he just tips the board slightly. also those tricks where he starts like a simple kickflip then stops it in the air and rotates it back is just ludacriss. |
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Just came back from the skate park. It was wet and I'm rubbish, so only tiny drop-ins from the fun box (about 3'6"). |
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Update: Since 2007, I've supplemented the Ripstick with a longboard Roller Surfer casterboard and a Cartel 56 Snakeboard with Neobrain bindings. I suck at snakeboard, but am happy with my ability on casterboards. |
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I've stopped casterboarding; I am too into offroad motorcycling now to commit the time necessary to it. . |
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my rollerblades are rotting in the garage. i can't do any tricks or shit, just manage to skate around without dying. or, at least, that's how it was when i last bothered, three years ago. bicycles. aren't they much better that skates? yes they are |
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I own a fingerboard |
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Hey CERI JC you must have gotten pretty good during those four years? |
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I did casterboarding really intensely for about a year. Then only sporadically, haven't done it at all recently. I am quite happy with what I can do on one. One day I'll get around to putting snakeboard/streetboard bindings on a casterboard to make it a lot more 'jumpable'. |
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