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Snowboarding
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4 Top Snowboards For The Halfpipe: Clean Lines, Speed, Pop
Picking out a good snowboard is always dependent on your style of riding and competency level as well as your weight and height. You may need a different snowboard depending …
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10 Awesome Tips for Snowboard Travel (From Seasoned Riders)
Flying off to Japan or the Swiss Alps on a snowboard trip for the first time? You can make your trip as good as it gets – and avoid a …
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Switching From Snowboarding To Skiing: Why & How To Do It?
Judging from the number of skiers on any mountain, skiing is undeniably more common than snowboarding among the general public. Skiing is often seen as easier to learn than snowboarding …
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Can Big Guys Snowboard? Defy Gravity
When standing in line for a ski lift, it’s hard not to notice that most skiers and snowboarders are fit and slender in weight. This isn’t to say that larger …
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Can You Learn To Snowboard By Yourself? What Riders Say
Floating over powder and carving through corduroy lines might look easy, but snowboarding can be difficult to learn. The age-old debate of whether you can teach yourself to snowboard continues …
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How Fast Can You Snowboard? The Surprising Facts
Learning to snowboard fast can have a big impact on your confidence levels when advancing in the sport. How fast you can get down the mountain depends on the weather …
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Surf Skate
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Hamboards Surskate Review: Classic For Land Surfing
Hamboards are very special longboard skateboards with a classic surfboard look and feel. Hamboards are much bigger than regular skateboards and longboards and with a very unique retro style reminiscent …
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9 Best Skateboards For Surf Training (2023)
Skateboarding and surfing are closely related. The feeling of riding a skateboard has a lot in common with that of riding a wave on a surfboard. Surf skateboards – aka …
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Best Carver Skateboards (The Real Brand!) Comparison Guide
Last updated 07/2023 Carver Skateboards has pioneered the surfskate since 1996 and is still the most iconic surfskate brand out there. Carver is the first name that usually comes to …
Longboard Carving & pumping
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Landyachtz Chief Review: An Amazing Pintail Cruiser
I’ve been riding my Landyachtz Chief longboard for months and I’m more and more in love with it, so I thought I’d write a post about it to share my …
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Carver Skateboards Review: The Pioneers Of Surfskate
Carver Skateboards has pioneered the “surfskate” market and to this day, remains a leader in the segment in spite of the growing number of surfskate competing brands. Carver continues to build top-quality …
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How to Choose the Best Surf Skateboard: The Complete Guide
Surf skateboards, aka surf skates, are a special kind of beast. Not your normal skateboard, not your longboard, they claim to be the closest thing to surfing on the asphalt. …
Surf / SUP / Wake
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Can You Water Ski Behind Any Boat?
If you’re a soon-to-be or newer boat owner interested in water sports, you may be wondering what type of boat is suitable for water skiing. Many sorts of boats can …
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Learning To Surf On A Shortboard: Can It Be Done?
As a beginner, you may be tempted to start learning to surf on a shortboard. Perhaps you have a shortboard hanging around, or you’ve found a well-priced second-hand shortboard online. …
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Best Sunglasses For Wakeboarding You Can Safely Ride With
The debate is on: should we wear sunglasses when wakeboarding? And if so, what are the best sunglasses out there for our favorite action watersport? As a big watersports enthusiast, …
Longboarding Gear
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Mindless Longboards Review: 13 Boards Worth A Look
Created in 2005, Mindless Longboards is a UK-based longboard brand (one of the few). The company designs and develops quality longboards which riders often compare to major brands such as …
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Orangatang Dad Bod Review: Monster Wheel For LDP & Commute
I love BIG wheels for their comfort and roll speed. If you’re a big fan of distance pushing and carving, chances are you feel the same. The new Orangatang Dad …
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How to Choose the Right Longboard for Me : A Simple Guide
Are you struggling to choose the right longboard skateboard for you ? Feeling lost in the dense jungle of longboard options available on the market ? Getting dizzy looking at …
Longboard Cruising & Commuting
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Skateboarding At Night: Why and How
Many skateboarders ride at night, and for good reasons. You may choose to go skateboarding after dark because that’s when you have the most free time, because the streets and …
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Arbor Dropcruiser Review: A Stylish Mid-Size Commuter
A while back I saw someone cruising on an Arbor Dropcruiser longboard, I was really impressed by how fluid and comfortable the ride seemed to be, so I decided to …
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Best Santa Cruz Skateboards Cruisers – Comparison Guide
Santa Cruz Skateboards is one of the oldest most influential and most prestigious skateboard companies in the world. Founded in 1973 by three surfer friends in Santa Cruz, California, initially …
Beginner Longboarding
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Best Skateboard For 8-Year-Old: What Size, Safety, Price
Recently, my sister mentioned she wanted to get a skateboard for my 8-year old niece. She said many of her friends with kids the same age were also interested in …
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What is Carving on a Longboard? A Closer Look at Street Surfing
You may have stopped in the street to watch these guys or gals moving on their longboards in a fluid and flowy ride, maintaining rhythm and speed without their foot …
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Is Longboarding Hard ? You’re On For a Surprise
Many people are attracted to longboarding because it feels so great being able to surf on land, be it for commuting or for more intense activities like carving or speed …
Dancing & Freestyle
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Loaded Tarab Review: The Ultimate Dancing Machine (replaced by Tarab II article)
Longboard dancing is an awesome discipline that’s all the rage these days, particularly in Asia and Europe, and quickly picking up in the US. The Loaded Tarab (Amazon page) is considered …
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Longboard Dancing : a Close Look at Stylish Riding
Alongside the cruising, freeriding, downhill and freestyling longboarding styles, another fascinating discipline has been gaining a lot of traction over the past few years: longboard dancing. Often viewed as an …
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Loaded Symtail: Pumping & Carving Bliss 2.0 (Feat. Freestyle)
The Symtail is the latest addition to Loaded’s lineup. It’s a beautiful midsize symmetrical shape strongly focused on carving and pumping mixed with some freestyle and dancing capabilities. This topmount …
