Longboarding

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, …

If you’re new to surf skating and looking to pick your first surf skate, you’ve probably heard of the Slide skateboards.  While Slide is not as publicized as other surf skate …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Tugboat mini-cruiser is designed for daily urban commuting and nimble transportation around the neighborhood or a college campus.  It’s also a cool technical board riders can do a lot …

Imagine a regular skateboard that you could actually cruise on comfortably for hours in the city or on campus, while slashing and jumping like on a regular street board… If …

When it comes to commuter longboards, most people think of big, comfortable, low riding drop-throughs with big trucks and wheels that you can push on painlessly for hours.  Or, for …

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 …

If you’re wondering why I chose the Loaded Poke for this review, it’s simply because I love this little guy.  Defined by its creators as an “urban explorer”, it’s designed …