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Snowboarding
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Cheap vs Expensive Snowboard: How Different Are they?
If you’re looking a to buy a new snowboard, you are probably faced with an endless range of options, with prices ranging from super low to insanely expensive. But are …
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Ride Superpig vs Lib Tech T.Rice Orca Snowboard Smackdown
The Ride Superpig and Lib Tech Orca have a few technical similarities. Both are all-mountain directional boards with a medium to stiff flex. They have wide noses and shorter lengths …
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Snowboarding Over 40: Too Old To Ride?
Snowboarding has a reputation for being a youth sport because of its association with the skate / surf culture. While it is true that most riders are under 30, there …
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Snowboard, Boots, Bindings: Which Should You Buy First?
Whether you’re just starting out or upgrading your equipment, one of the first decisions is determining the order of purchasing your core snowboard gear: boots, bindings, or snowboard. While a …
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Marmot Basin, Jasper: My Experience Snowboarding There
Marmot Basin in Jasper, Alberta, will always be special to me as it is where I learned how to snowboard. Marmot Basin is located in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, …
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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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Surf Skate
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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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Surf Skate Trucks: The Complete Guide (updated 2023)
If surfskating the streets is your goal, there are quite a few surf skate truck systems out there to choose from. While getting a complete surfskate is definitely an option, …
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Swelltech Surfskate Review: The Ultimate Surf Trainer [2023 update]
Swelltech’s surfskates are special longboards specifically designed for surfers. They provide one of the closest experience to wave surfing in the market. Surfers widely vet the Swelltech surfskates and consider …
Longboard Carving & pumping
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Z-Flex Skateboards Review: Boards With A Cool Retro Vibe
Z-Flex is a legendary skateboard brand and one of the longest-running skateboarding companies out there. Z-Flex was co-created in Santa Monica in the 1970s by Jay Adams, an iconic skateboarder …
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Skateboard vs Snowboard: A Hard And Cold Comparison
Is skateboarding similar to snowboarding? These two sports are similar in many ways, and knowing skateboarding can help learning snowboarding and vice-versa. There are also major differences between skateboarding and …
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Loaded Vanguard Review: The Longboard Carving System
Loaded boards are recognized as being among the most high-end longboards out there. Each Loaded model focuses on specific areas of the riding style spectrum. The Vanguard is an essential …
Surf / SUP / Wake
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Minimum Horsepower For Wakeboarding, Skiing, Tubing? What Riders Say
When purchasing a boat to use for water sports, one of the main questions you’ll need to ask is how much horsepower your boat needs to tow you . Horsepower …
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What Is The Best Surf / Wake Boat for Shallow Water?
Whether your local spot is a tide-dependent saltwater bay that can get as shallow as 3-5 feet, or a lake with inconsistent depths, it’s important to know the draft dimensions …
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10 Skateboarding-Inspired Wakesurfing Tricks That Will Blow Your Mind
Wakesurfing has taken a lot of ideas from skateboarding, bringing cool tricks from the street to the water. When you mix surfing with the precise moves from skateboarding, you get …
Longboarding Gear
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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 …
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Best Sector 9 Longboards: Comparison Guide [2023]
Based in San Diego California, Sector 9 Longboards has been in the market for nearly 30 years and has established itself as one of the largest quality longboarding companies in …
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Blind Skateboards Review: The Legend Lives On
Blind Skateboards is a renowned brand and a skateboard industry pioneer created in 1989 by Mark Gonzales under the ownership of World Industries, Steve Rocco’s distribution company. In the late …
Longboard Cruising & Commuting
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Longboard Pumping: the Alternative Riding Style
You may not hear about longboard pumping all that often, yet it’s a hot and ongoing topic among those longboarders who’ve discovered it. Longboard pumpers are just as passionate about …
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Choosing The Best Double Drop Longboard: Low Ride Galore
There is a lot of confusion among newer longboarders with regard to so-called double-drop longboards and what they’re good for. I also get asked how to choose a double-drop longboard. …
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Skateboarding To Work: Why It Can Be A Great Option
So you’re pondering the thought of getting a skateboard for going to work everyday. You’re wondering if it’s a crazy idea or if skateboarding to your office is a reasonable …
Beginner Longboarding
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ReVive Skateboards Review: The Web-Born Skate Brand
ReVive Skateboards was founded and is run by Andrew Shrock and Aaron Kyro, two skateboarders from Cincinnati who have become famous in the skateboarding community through Andy Schrock’s uber-popular Youtube …
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How to Make Your Longboard Faster : 5 Actions You Can Take
We longboarders are always looking for ways to make our longboard faster. Many of us often feel there are things slowing us down as we cruise, carve, freestyle, dance, and …
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How To Remove Grip Tape From Your Longboard: An Easy Guide
After riding your longboard for weeks or months, your grip tape may start to wear off, particularly if you do a lot of tricks and sliding. Even if it’s still …
Dancing & Freestyle
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Choosing The Best Longboard For Freestyle: Everything You Should Know
Longboard freestyle is a broad – and sometimes blurry – riding style encompassing different riding styles. Street skating and flip tricks, technical sliding, bowl and skatepark riding, longboard dancing, all …
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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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What are the 8 best dancing longboards? [2024 Update]
Longboard dancing is a visual, flowy and skillful discipline that involves fluid cross-stepping and balancing tricks while carving on the board. These stepping tricks are often called “flatland” tricks, different from …
