Skateboards / Longboards / Carveboards..

[tomcat360]

Then you have a good explination of why I can beat any kid that comes to our hill using any board? I'll beat them on mine, they complain, I'll switch boards with them, and again, beat them. I do quite a bit racing, whether that be slalom or downhill.

A good tuck and a steady head is all you need. Yes, a responsive board allows you to pump easier, but with good technique you can do it with any board. If you're tuck is good, you will go faster. Having the head to keep that speed up is the other component. If you have a good enough head you can run any hill with your trucks almost falling off. Speed wobble is not in the board, it's in your head, it's just that with a looser/flexier board your head gets sketched out quicker.

If you'd like to come race, I'm more than welcome

[tazman76]

Man id love a race, if u can make it to Oz. I cant see myself going to america soon tho. Downhill is so much fun, and a bit dangerous. I often wonder what the hell im doing when im dodging cars and coming off at high speeds. My wife thinks im nuts. Yeah have to agree with the technique and mindset tho. I reckon mindset is actually more important than technique a lot of the time. And thats not just with skating.

[tomcat360]

Yeah, it's a bit sketchy at times

We have a hill we used to skate every day, recently I've been too busy so only like 2x a week. With a good tuck you can get a bit above 40 MPH, and has the option of an S-turn at the top, which you have to run 2 stop signs.

So I was racing a friend through it, and I was about to cut him off in the second part of the S-turn, so I swung it wide and then tried to cut it harder, lost traction, then I drifted into the oncoming lane of traffic, about 50 feet from a giant white Xterra(they were driving towards me, I was skating towards them). It got to the point where I was trying to figure out if I could go under the car and not hit my head on the bumper

That was freaky, by the time I regained traction, I was like 4 feet away from the front bumper.

[bluesnowcone]

me abd my mate race down this hill near us but we dont go anywhere near 40 mph, but the hill has just been re tarmacked so its so smooth

[nsidla]

Sorry to disappoint but yes I have ridden them. Three friends that live in my apartment complex have them. Now lets not turn this into a flame thread, but thank God we have this thing called an opinion. Should look up the definition of that before you flame someone for theirs. lol - You act like getting a waveboard going is hard; now I can't do tricks or anything I'll admit especially since I never have tried, but to act like it's something that an athletic and agile person would have much trouble riding is just ridiculous.

Actually no bad beat maker I am not implying that they are very difficult to ride, I run and I barely am strained riding a wave board and frankly i think they're very easy to ride, i can already ollie on mine and do every trick except a kickflip; and some of my own, but trust me ,if you stay on a wave board around my neighborhood for 3 hours you will feel it the next day, especially doing old school style carving with your hands on the ground. In my personal opinion though, juding from my friend's Airwalk longboard, longboards don't seem to give you as much exercise, that is to day they don't personally feel as draining on my body. One day I rode my board for 6 hours with my friends and I was dead for the rest of the day, that was 6 hours of bombing down hills and carving the crap out of everywhere we passed. No longboard I have ever ridden is able to carve as tightly as a waveboard. That is simply why I recommended it. I am sorry Bad Beat Maker for judging prehensively.

By the way, does anyone know what the best longboard skateboard company would be, looking to get one myself ?

[nsidla]

My bad on the quote thing.

[jsteave]

With my recent purchase of a small longboard, I've started skating around my local area, mainly carving down hills (I think carving is the appropriate term to use). It made me curious, being a skier, if carving down a hill on a skateboard feels the same as carving on a snowboard. It was a pretty awesome sensation. So, my question is: Does carving on a skateboard feel the same as carving on a snowboard?

[jaffa1949]

A lot of our guys are looking carving on a wave similarities! but a good full carve on anything feels great!