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Snowboarding
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Powder Board Size: Should You Ride A Wide Board For Pow?
Powder days are one of snowboarding’s greatest joys, but riding deep powder takes the right gear. There’s so many different pow boards it can be intimidating. Most proficient riders recommend …
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Best Burton Snowboard: Which Board Should You Choose?
This post may have affiliate links, which means I may receive commissions if you choose to purchase through links I provide (at no extra cost to you). As an Amazon …
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Yes, Riding Switch On A Directional Snowboard Is Doable
Can you ride switch on a directional snowboard? You probably can but it really depends on your board’s design and your skill level. Directional snowboards are designed to have a …
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Jones Flagship vs Lib Tech T.Rice Orca: Which Is Better?
The Jones Flagship and Lib Tech Orca are considered two of the best all-mountain directional snowboards. The Flagship is a high performance, total big-mountain dominating board. If you’re constantly searching …
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The Snowboarding Culture: From Rebels To Global Tribe
Snowboarders are special animals who chase the perfect snow conditions, travel around the world to exotic snow spots, flood to high-energy parties and contests blasting high-voltage techno or hip hop …
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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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The Most Popular Surf Skate Brands Revealed! (Survey)
What are the most popular surf skate brands out there? Is a pioneer like Carver still dominating the pack, or has a younger challenger like YOW or Swelltech taken over? …
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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. …
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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, …
Longboard Carving & pumping
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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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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 …
Surf / SUP / Wake
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Can You Use A Surfboard As A Paddleboard?
If you’re looking to get started with stand up paddling (SUP), you may be wondering if you can use a surfboard as a paddleboard. Perhaps you have a big old …
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Mastercraft vs Malibu: Who Makes The Best Wake Boats?
If you’re in the market for your first boat new or used, you may feel at first like there’s a huge range of options with many boat builders offering an …
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Can You Wakesurf With A Surfboard? It Can Work!
If you’re new to wakesurfing and only have access to a regular surfboard for ocean waves, you may be wondering if you can use that board to surf the wake …
Longboarding Gear
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Ghost Longboards Review: Coolest Ride On Earth? [2022]
Ghost longboards is known for building high-quality, U.S-made clear see-through acrylic longboard decks that are very smooth riding and accessible to riders of all ages and skill levels. These boards …
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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 Powell-Peralta Cruiser Skateboards: Comparison Guide
Powell-Peralta is an iconic skateboard company with a rich history dating back to 1976. Founded by George Powell and Stacy Peralta in Santa Barbara CA, the brand has played a …
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Longboard Cruising & Commuting
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Loaded Icarus Review : A Carving & Pumping Machine
If you’re considering the Loaded Icarus, you’re probably looking for a high-quality drop-through longboard with solid flex, primarily for commuting and carving yet versatile enough to let you do some …
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Average Skateboard Speed: How Fast Do We Ride?
If you’re considering riding a skateboard for your next trip across town or for your daily commute, you may wonder what kind of speed you can achieve on a skateboard. …
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How to Choose The Best Longboard for Commuting
Many skaters are fanatic about riding their longboard to work every day, commonly traveling distances of a couple of miles to over 10 miles each way. You may be excited …
Beginner Longboarding
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Skateboard vs Longboard: An Obvious Choice ?
Trying to decide whether to get a longboard or skateboard? Welcome to the world of hard choices and multiple possibilities. Let’s start with the basics: A skateboard will be shorter, …
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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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Cruising On A Longboard : The Spirit Of Longboarding
When one thinks about longboarding, the first thing that come to mind is cruising. If you’re considering getting into longboarding, chances are you plan to initially use your board to …
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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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 Bhangra V2 review: Still The Top Dancing Longboard
Why do so many riders agree the Loaded Bhangra is still one of the very best dancing longboards on the market, even 10 years after its first launch? For many …
