Riding styles

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

If you’re new to longboarding, you may be wondering what freeride longboarding is and how it compares to other longboarding disciplines. Freeride longboarding involves downhill riding although at low to …

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 …

So you want to get into longboarding (or you’re already hooked) and you’re considering getting yourself a new longboard.  Before you do this, you need to understand the types of …