Longboarding

We longboarders are always looking for ways to make our longboard faster.  Many of us often feel there are things slowing us down as we cruise, carve, freestyle, dance, and …

If you’re new to longboarding, choosing the right longboard to start with was probably your first concern.  Next priority? How to stop on your longboard and avoid crashing and hurting …

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 …

Getting started with longboarding doesn’t have to be a daunting prospect if you follow the right learning steps in the right order.  Many riders take to the hills straight away …

If you’re interested in starting to skate, one of the first questions you may have is : should I go for a skateboard or longboard, a very commonly asked and …

If you’ve recently gotten into longboarding, you may be intrigued about this downhill longboard discipline everyone is talking about when the subject of longboarding comes up. If you’re an extreme …

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 …

A fundamental aspect of learning how to longboard is your stance.  That is, how you stand on your board. Stance refers not only to the way you place your feet …

Powersliding is one of the coolest and most important moves you’ll learn on your longboard.  To me, learning how to powerslide has been a major goal from the start, even …

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 …