Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Skateboarding - How to Stop and Powerslide on a Longboard

Here's a pretty clear tutorial video on how to slide and stop using one handed board grabs to slide and two handed push up slide to stop:



Chris McCurry and Jason Bither have a great collection of longboard how-to videos at SketeDeville - Their breaking section for how to stop a longboard is pretty solid:


If you've been experimenting with the longboard you've undoubtedly found out about 'speed wobbles' - TheGnarDeal and "Downhill/Dashboard Jesus"  put some science to it:



Now that we have the nonsense out of the way, let's get back to business.

Endless Roads 2 - The Island with Longboard Girls Crew is is a bit slow out of the gate but phenomenal once the actually get rolling - around the 8:40 things pick up and by 10:45 mark things get wild! Smoking hot.




With huge fun and huge slides come some big crashes:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In order to brake in time need not only well-honed technique of skateboarder but also reliable equipment and the body of board. For example, I buy parts for my board on this site https://x3mboardshop.com/longboards/trucks/ because it is the time-tested service.

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Well we should always wear Helmet and other safety stuff because if we don't then we can lose our life while having fun. This kind of stuff is already dangerous and we shouldn't even try them.