Surfskate
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 …
Loaded Carver Bolsa Review: Best Freestyle Surfskate Ever?
If you haven’t noticed, here at Ridingboards we’re huge fans of both Loaded and Carver. Imagine our stoke when Loaded approached us with the new Bolsa surfskate, result of a …
What Is The Best Surfskate For Cruising And Commuting?
Looking to spice up your cruising sessions with some surf-style carving and pumping, but wondering if you can really cruise on a surfskate? If (like me) your definition of cruising …
Surf / SUP / Wake
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 …
Is Wakeboarding Hard? Not If You Do It The Right Way!
Newbies and water skiers often ask how hard wakeboarding is. Like in all board/action sports, the learning curve is different for each person, depending on their previous experience, age and …
Can I Learn Surfing On My Own? Not Easy But Can Be Done
If you want to start surfing, you’re probably wondering if you can learn to surf on your own or if you should start with a surf instructor. The answer depends …
Beginner longboarding
Choosing The Best Double Drop Longboard: A Helpful Guide
There is a lot of confusion among newer longboarders with regards to so-called double drop longboards and what they’re good for. I also get asked quite often what are some …
How Fast Can You Go on a Longboard ?
Longboarding is an awesome way to move around, much faster than walking. Longboards are typically faster than skateboards due to their larger wheelbase (distance between trucks) and bigger wheels. Just how …
Cruising on a Longboard : Everything you Need to Know
When one thinks about longboarding, for most people the first thing that come to mind is cruising. If you’re considering getting into longboarding, chances are you plan to initially use …
Longboarding Gear
Enuff Skateboards Review: Here’s Why They Are So Popular
Enuff Skateboards is a UK brand established in 2006. It was created by skateboarders who had a vision for good quality yet very affordable skateboarding products for the British market. …
Loaded Overland Review: Hybrid Longboard For Tricks & Freeride
The Overland is Loaded’s iconic midsized hybrid longboard. Over 6 years after being first introduced, it’s still one of the best hybrids boards on the market. The Overland is touted …
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 …
Cruising & commuting
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 …
Longboarding In Kansas City: Best Spots And Events
As I was planning a work trip to Kansas City, as usual I thought I’d do a bit of research on where the best longboarding spots are in the area. …
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 …
Carving & pumping
Arbor Dropcruiser Review: A Stylish Mid-Size Commuter
Last week I saw someone cruising on an Arbor Dropcruiser longboard and I got really impressed by how fluid and comfortable the ride seemed to be, so I thought I’d …
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 …
YOW Surfskate Review: Top European-Made Surf Skateboard
YOW Surf is a leading surfskate brand. According to the surfskate survey conducted by this site, YOW surfskates come right behind Carver in terms of popularity. In this post, I …
Dancing & freestyle
Skateboard vs Scooter: How Do They Compare ?
The skateboard vs scooter faceoff has been going on for ages and rages on as the popularity of scooters grows among kids – and even grow-ups. Pro scooters, aka kick, …
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 …
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 …
Freeride & downhill
Best Drop-Down Longboards: Low, Fast & Stable Rides
Drop-down longboards have a special shape that makes the section of the deck where you stand on (aka the standing foot platform) closer to the ground than the truck mount …
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 …
Longboarding San Francisco: Top Skating Spots In Bay Area
San Francisco is a great city for longboard skateboarding, with plenty of good places for flatland cruising and freeride/downhill skating. Newcomers, however, often have a hard time finding out about …