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Tips To Buy A Longboard

Longboards appear in various different shapes and sizes and come up to very similar to skateboards, the most noticeable difference being the size! Longboards commonly measure between 90 and 150 cm beside smaller or 'mini longboards' are available
Longboards are principally intended for speed and can best be described as street obtainable surfboards and even though skateboards are extra proper for tricks and stunts, smooth motions can be strung as one on a longboard, this is referred to as 'dancing'.
To increase momentum for downhill or slalom racing, is depending on weight and bulk of longboard. The design will take part in the rider to make turns or 'carves' in a similar fashion to a surfer or snowboarder. Protection equipment such as helmet and elbow and knee protection are necessary as to the action is extremely high speeds, as falling onto concrete is a lot less forgiving than falling onto snow or water!
Longboards can be purchased as finish product or custom product which is built from individual parts allowing the user to customise their board. The primary parts of a longboard are:
Decks: These appear in a various of different shapes including, pintail, drop-through and flat nose-riders.
Trucks: The trucks make available the steering mechanism for .........

" Why I Ride..."

A Story by Ken. B, Seattle WA. 

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I bought my first skateboard when I was 11. It was wood with crude trucks, but it was fun to ride, because other kids had bikes and I was popping stunts and looking cool cruising on my deck while they were pushing pedals. It set me and my buddies apart that we rode and carried our skateboards around at school.

I am still skating, and I added longboards to my collection about 2 years ago. Seattle isn't an ideal place to ride, because it's raining a lot of the time, the streets are narrow, STEEP, busy, and cars are usually parked up both sides of the street, leaving about 10 feet of roadway to "carve".

I have a 26" board with beefy trucks and wheels that I can slalom down tight streets with. It gets me from A to B and I can carry it on the bus. We have some great hills out of town of course, so that's the place to bust out the long, longboards and carve huge. I hope to ride down Rainier this summer, and I have some other top secret locations that I go to every year.

You asked why I ride...

Well for me it all comes down to that feeling of "flow".

When you and the board and the hill are one. You interact with the board which in turn interacts with the road, and you stay up, and you look good doing it. That's flow.

There's so much more to it though...