Board News
Snowboarding
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How To Live A Snowboarding Life (aka Da Real Life)
So you want to live the snowboard lifestyle. Snowboarding is your passion and you want to build your whole life around it. Options are broad and range from from being …
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Backseat Snowboard Riding: Why It Sucks And How To Fix It
Backseat riding refers to when you sit too far back on your snowboard instead of keeping your weight centered over your front foot. This often happens as a beginner when …
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Burton Flight Attendant vs Custom: Battle Of The Greats
Burton’s Flight Attendant and Custom series are key snowboards in the directional all-mountain category. The Flight Attendant verges towards the freeride side of the spectrum, while the Customs are more …
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Should You Wear A Helmet Snowboarding?
Whether to wear a helmet or not is a very old debate in the snowboarding community. In the past, snowboarders wearing a helmet were often frowned upon and regarded as …
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Skiers Running Their Skis Over My Snowboard In Lift Lines
When you’re in the lift line, you likely have skiers bump into your snowboard or run over the tail of it with their freshly waxed, razor-edged skis, many times without …
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Should You Or Shouldn’t You Buy Used Snowboard Boots?
Snowboarding gear is a big investment, so the idea of saving money with used boots is an attractive one. However, boots are one of the most important pieces of equipment …
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Surf Skate
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Carver Grain Surf Skate: Precision Carving with Natural Wood Aesthetics
The Carver Grain Complete surf skate stands out for its natural beauty and performance, designed with a nod to the aesthetics of wood grain. The board’s visual appeal is only …
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Longboarding Uphill: How To Do It
As longboarders, we enjoy cruising and pushing on flat ground or carving down milder or steeper hills. However, most riders come across some uphill sections during their longboard commutes or …
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Surfskate Survey Results: What Surfskaters Are Saying
Here are all the results from the survey including individual comments! Note: if you hadn’t yet, take the survey and add your brick here.
Longboard Carving & pumping
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Skateboard Pump Track: Everything You Need To Know
Over the last few years, skateboard pump tracks, a new kind of skatepark course, have emerged and are attracting increasing numbers of skateboarders and longboarders everywhere in the world. A …
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Arbor Zeppelin Review: A Beautiful Compact City Carver
The Arbor Zeppelin is a beautiful-looking drop-through carving and light freeride longboard designed to be lightweight, quick and responsive for campus and city riding. The Zeppelin is a performance drop-through …
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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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Paddle Boarding With Bad Knees: Is It A Good Idea?
If you have weak, stiff, or sore knees, stand-up paddle boarding (SUPing) on flat water can be great for gaining and maintaining knee strength. It can even be beneficial for …
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Can you Wakesurf Without Ballast?
If you have a boat with no built-in ballast, you may not want to invest in fat sacs to improve your surf wake. Or, you may need the storage space …
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Surf Sunglasses You Can Actually Rip With (Surfer Test)
If you’re a surfer like me, you likely spend hours in the ocean, summer or winter, exposing your eyes to hard sun glare and salty water during long sessions. We …
Longboarding Gear
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Loaded Kanthaka & Kut-thaka Review: Shrinking The Freestyle City Slasher
The Loaded Kanthaka is an impressive longboard if your roots are is in street skating. A remarkable hybrid construction, comfortable concave, rockered profile, and deep wheel flares, make it as …
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The 9 Longest Lasting Skate Shoes You Need To Know About!
Are you tired of ruining your shoes quickly with skateboarding or longboarding? I certainly am, which is why I decided to go on a hunt for the longest-lasting skate shoes …
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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 …
Longboard Cruising & Commuting
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Longboarding In NYC: Where To Skate In The Big Apple
For my next trip to New York, I plan on taking my longboard with me so I can go cruising, exploring, and bombing the great bike routes and hills the …
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Globe Blazer Review: A Stylish & Durable Mini-Cruiser
Globe has long made high-quality longboards and cruisers, and the Blazer is one of its most well-liked and sought-after skateboards. The Globe Blazer is one of those great little cruisers …
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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 …
Beginner Longboarding
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Longboarding In College: A Useful Guide
More and more college students use a longboard to get around campus. Longboarding lets you get to class or to the library much faster than walking, and makes you much …
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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 …
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How To Skateboard At Home
Are you considering skating inside due to bad weather or quarantine? Whether you’re just starting out or have extensive skating experience, this post will provide some juicy tips on how …
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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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 …
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Loaded Tarab II Review: Lofti’s Dream Dancer Reloaded
Longboard dancing is a fantastic discipline that combines carving, board walking, and elements of freestyle. The Loaded Tarab is one of the best dancer boards out there, a high-performance board …
