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Snowboarding
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Yes Pick Your Line vs Burton Flight Attendant: A Tough Call?
The Yes Pick Your Line (PYL) and Burton Flight Attendant are solid hybrid camber, directional all-mountain chargers. They will tear up a variety of terrain and conditions and are crafted …
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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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Arbor Whiskey vs Element: Which To Choose?
Arbor’s Whiskey and Element snowboards are some of their best priced all-mountain freestyle boards. Both boards are directional twins with a medium flex and will set you back $450. The …
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Lib Tech Box Knife vs Capita DOA: Which Snowboard Wins?
In this post we take a comparative look at Capita’s Defender of Awesome (DOA) and Lib Techs Box Knife, two highly versatile all-mountain snowboards. The Box Knife has the edgehold …
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Union vs Burton Snowboard Bindings: Battle Of The Titans
If you’re looking into snowboard bindings, you’ll inevitably come across the two big names, Union and Burton. Both are well-known in the snowboarding world for their quality and features. Union …
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How To Choose The Best Burton Snowboard Bindings
Every rider wants to feel connected to the snow and to their snowboard, and choosing the right binding is the best place to start. Burton products are extremely popular for …
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Surf Skate
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Best Santa Cruz Skateboards Surf Skates (Carver Collab)
Santa Cruz Skateboards has released a line of surf skate cruisers in collaboration with Carver. This is an awesome alliance between two of the biggest names in skateboarding! The Santa …
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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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Street Surfing Longboard: What Is It and How to Choose One
If you’re looking for a street surfing longboard, chances are your goal is to achieve on concrete a riding feel similar to surfing or snowboarding. Street surfing is becoming increasingly …
Longboard Carving & pumping
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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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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, …
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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 …
Surf / SUP / Wake
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Best Wakesurf Boat Under 30K: Don’t Break The Bank For Waves
Wake boats these days are very expensive. Two decades ago, you could typically find a nice tow boat for under $50K. Today, finding a wakesurf boat under $30K is not …
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Learning To Surf At 30: Is It Too Old?
So you’re in your 30s and you dream of learning to surf. Most of the learners you see, however, are kids or teens, and you keep being warned about how …
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Best Sunglasses For Watersports (Not Regular Shades!)
If you surf, kitesurf or wing foil, paddle board, kayak, wakeboard, wakesurf, or waterski, chances are you’re exposed to nasty sun rays, salt water spraying, and sun glare for hours. …
Longboarding Gear
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Drop-Through vs Drop-Down Longboard: Which to Choose?
Are you trying to choose between a drop-through or a drop-down (aka drop deck)? You may have ruled out the regular topmount longboard option for various reasons (less stability at …
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Loaded Chinchiller Review: Compact & Flexy – Carve & Pump
Looking for something new and chill to ride effortlessly to work or around town? Something fun that carves great and that you can pump, carve, flip, and even ride mellow …
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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 …
Longboard Cruising & Commuting
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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Why Should You Get A Longboard? My 7 Honest Reasons
The other day, as I was riding around on my longboard, I got thinking about the reasons that got me started with this awesome sport. My personal goals for longboarding …
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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. …
Dancing & Freestyle
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What is Freestyle Longboarding ? Tips for Beginners
Freestyle longboarding is the most acrobatic, “stunty” of longboard riding styles, with constant board flipping and spinning tricks. It’s the closest to traditional street skateboarding, although freestyle longboarding has a …
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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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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 …
