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Snowboarding
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Can You Do Tricks On A Stiff Snowboard?
We snowboarders often face a dilemma when choosing a board that can handle a mix of riding styles – e.g. freestyle/park, carving, powder, trees etc. If you already own a …
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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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Should You Lean Forward Or Back Snowboarding? [Answered]
Newer snowboarders often feel confused about whether they need to be leaning forward or back when riding. Going down a slope can be scary and a natural behavior for newbies …
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Should You Stay On An Edge When Going Straight On A Snowboard?
Going straight on a snowboard can be intimidating but knowing the correct way to do it will improve your ability on the slopes. Most of the time, staying on edge …
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5 Snowboarding Tricks Every Longboarder Will Typically Master in No Time
If you’re a longboarder looking to dive into snowboarding, there’s a lot you’ll find familiar, but also some technical changes that make it exciting. Your knowledge of weight distribution, momentum, …
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Never Summer Ripsaw vs Chairman: Which Snowboard to Choose?
The Never Summer Ripsaw and Never Summer Chairman snowboards both have a hybrid camber profile known as the Ripsaw Rocker Camber. This involves an exaggerated rocker between the bindings and …
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Surf Skate
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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.
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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 …
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New Globe Surf Skate Releases: The Costa, Zuma, Chromantic
Globe is among the world’s largest and best skateboard and longboard manufacturers and distributors. Their longboard and cruiser lineup is impressive, both in number of boards and in quality and …
Longboard Carving & pumping
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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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Short Longboards: Why They’re Great – And How to Choose One
Longboards come in all kinds of sizes. The term “short longboard” may sound like an oxymoron, but short longboards are a very capable and functional type of longboards. Why would …
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Slalom Skateboarding: Complete Guide (Technique, Gear, Events)
Slalom skateboarding is a type of downhill skateboarding that involves skaters weaving through cones set up at varying distances apart. The skater typically pumps to generate, increase or maintain speed, …
Surf / SUP / Wake
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Learn To Surf: 15-step Guide To Wave Riding For Beginners
You probably already know this but surfing is not an easy skill to learn. Learning how to really surf a wave can take weeks or months depending on your skills, …
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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, …
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Can You Ski Or Tube From A Wakeboard Tower ?
If you have a wakeboard tower set up in your boat, in addition to wakeboarding, you’ve likely tried – or thought about trying – pulling a skier or an inflatable …
Longboarding Gear
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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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Loaded Tangent 36″ Review: The New Best Performance Long-Distance Longboard ?”
If you serious about distance skating, you should probably consider a platform built for brackets. The Loaded Tangent bracket setup is specifically designed for dedicated distance skaters and commuters. The …
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Loaded Tesseract Review: The Ultimate Freeride & Downhill Longboard
Quite a few longboarders have long been dreaming of owning a Loaded Tesseract, and that’s for a reason. Like other longboards in the Loaded lineup, the Tesseract is an astonishing …
Longboard Cruising & Commuting
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Longboarding In Los Angeles: Where to Longboard Skate In The City Of Angels
A few weeks ago, I once again decide to make a work trip coincide with a longboarding experience, so I started researching places for longboarding in Los Angeles. L.A. is …
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Long Distance Longboarding: Getting Started with Travel Skating
You may have heard the term “long-distance pushing”, “long-distance pumping”, or just “LDP” before. These are part of the overall long-distance longboarding riding style, another fascinating, athletic, and sometimes extreme branch …
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How To Choose The Best Cruiser Longboard: A Helpful Guide
You may have noticed the term “cruiser” is used to designate all sorts of skateboards and longboards these days – sometimes it seems like everything is a cruiser. In reality, …
Beginner Longboarding
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Can You Teach Yourself to Skateboard? The things you need
Skateboarding is considered an extreme sport, albeit certainly one of the most accessible and popular ones. Most people teach themselves to skateboard through practice and watching others. You can learn …
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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 Carry a Longboard
Why a post about how to carry a longboard ? If you’ve been longboarding for a while, you’ve probably been faced with this question. A longboard can be quite bulky …
Dancing & Freestyle
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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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Best Longboard For Tricks: 3 Top Boards For 3 trick styles
Recently, someone asked me if you can do tricks on a longboard. “Tricks” are technical maneuvers you perform on a longboard other than simply rolling. Sure enough, there are always …
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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 …
