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On 6/8/1999 dunder
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This might seems a little bit stupid. I can only carve to the left! How do you carve to the right?
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On 6/7/1999
dunder
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This recipe is stolen from NoseWheelie, but its really great if you want to learn how to do walking tricks!
Simple Board Walking. This is a real basic maneuver. With your feet roughly perpendicular to the board and near the tail, step forward with your right foot around your left foot. Now step forward with your left foot and repeat. The number of steps you can take will be determined by the length of your board. If you have a 60-"-inch board, you could be there for a while.
Now from the front of the board, try to do the same thing backwards back to the tail. This is a relatively easy trick. You should be able to pick it up fairly quickly. The problem is that there's a big difference between doing it without falling off and looking good.
Spinner. Move your left foot toward the front of your board, and bring your right foot to the middle. Pivot on the ball of your left foot, so the heel of your foot is facing the nose. Shift our weight to your right foot and pivot it, so that it is facing the same way it would if you were riding switch stance. Now step back with your left foot, and you should be riding switch stance. Continue to pivot with your right foot, and step forward with your left and you're back where you started.
A variation on this trick is when you get to switch stance. Jump up and turn your body 180 degrees and land in your normal stance. Actually when I was just learning this trick, I found that this was usually easier than taking another step. A good way to set this up is to use a simple walking move to get to the front of the board, then do your Spinner. The real secret of this trick is to try to keep your weight on your right foot, and just use your left foot to step around it.
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On 6/7/1999
Keith Fellmy
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How do you cure the speed wobbles on a long board? On my luge I tighten up the trucks. Will this work on a longboard. Also how do you stop them while you're riding? Typical foot positioning or just a truck problem. Even my 15 mph baby hill I got the wobs bad.
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On 6/4/1999 johnjohn
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what exactly is the difference between a powerslide and a coleman-slide?
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On 6/3/1999
Jerry Norbury
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Marty.
Choose hills wisely :-)
No, seriously, it removes a great deal of the risk.
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On 6/3/1999
Marty
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Got my first longboard/slalomboard today..the thing bloody rocks!..now my question is fairly simple..i can get goin and gain speed, turn, and all that but how the HELL do you stop on this thing?...keep carvin...C YA
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On 6/2/1999 drew
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Josh,
Longboarding is about speed and carving, but it is also nice to throw in a slide to slow down occasionaly. If you are going to be sliding, why not do it with style?
Same with ollieing, so what if people want to be able to get up onto the curb?
Let people ask thier questions.
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On 6/2/1999
josh
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ollie? 360? longboards are all about speed and soul carves, if you want to get tricky, chill with the punks on the shorty shortins.
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On 6/1/1999
mat
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Hay Street thrasher
That is the board i have. This board is pretty good for olleying and carving. The wheeles are soft so if you want to slide you will have to buy some hard ones or a different board. CYA
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On 6/1/1999 Street Thrasher
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Ok I was messing around on a longboard a while ago and it seemed like it could be lots of fun to learn what the hell i am doing on it.
I am thinking about getting a Sector9 cloud9 OG. Is this board any good? Or what maybe would be a better one for me to start out on? Any help anyone can offer would be great.
Thanks Alot
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On 6/1/1999 k-tang
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yo wussup? i was half surfin the net when i found this site, massive. i bought a gravity longboard about 3 months ago, it cost 'bout $320 (that's in nz$), its funny in normal skate pages every ones like 'how do you 360 kick flip' 'how do you ollie imposible', but cause this is all about longboarding it's all about 'how do you ollie' 'how do you slide'. i can already ollie and slide (ish). but heaps of tricks are the same as sk8ing on a normal board give it a go. i'm trying to get air and hold my board, it's called an indy right? oh well im gonna keep surfing late bro haere ra,ka kite - k-tang
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On 6/1/1999
Dirk
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I was riding down a steep section of the road when a car pulled out from a parking lot and blocked my way. I tried to do a backside coleman but ended up butt sliding with my board turned over grindig the asphalt.
Is there a technique to control your slide when going fast and what is your favorite move to prevent from crashing into solid objects.
I am serious about skating down that hill so I need your insight into controlled slides.
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On 5/31/1999
Calvin
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Hi, I bought my first longboard today. Today were also the time of my first crash, when I wanted to stop in good speed. My board stopped, but not I. Did about three painfull rolls on the pavement...Maybe the question seems stupid, but how do I stop in someway?
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On 5/31/1999
mat
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Hay SHERIF*JW
That is the board i have. This board is pretty good for olleying and carving. The wheeles are soft so if you want to slide you will have to buy some hard ones or a different board. CYA
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On 5/30/1999 Gabe
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I was on this really good hill and this truck pulled up behind me so I tucked and outran it. I find however that I am not as stable at high speeds when I tuck, I think my balance gets off or something like that.
Gabe
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On 5/30/1999 soulmann{again!!!!}
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how do you get air on a longboard??????????
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On 5/30/1999 Soulmann
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What the hell is a collman slide????????????????
Is it like a cess slide or somthing??????????
Carve on.
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On 5/29/1999
ben
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hey bs a board slide is a shortboard trick where you ollie on to a rail and slide down with the rail under the center of the board. but if you have longboard you have to pretty stupid because you will snap your deck and you will do a nut slide (very painfull)
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On 5/28/1999
Sean
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I will explaine the easiest and best way to ollie. The main things that determine your ollie-wich I will explain in detail are your stance,your jump and snap, and your slide. The very best way to learn how to Ollie is to start out standing still using a thin to medium thickness carpet to stand on(depending on the size of your wheels, the bigger you wheels the thicker the carpet you probably want to use. But dont use too thick of carpet because you won't get much pop when you snap your tail.) This will help you to be stable, and keep you wheels from rolling backwards when you snap the tail. This is one thing that will make you not ollie as high. Unless you have a really long kicktail you want to get your back foot as close to the end of the tail as posible-- some people like it to hand over the end of the tail just a little--with the ball of your foot centered between the edges this will also help you get more pop out of your tail as you snap it. You want your front foot near the middle( you will find your preferred stance with practice , some like it more toward the tail of center and some prefer the stability of putting their foot closer to the nose). These next steps can not be mastered just by reading how but will take lots and lots and lots of practice. The total key to all of this witch is what is going to take you so long to master is the timing of it all.
Stand on your board on the carpet using the stance I just explained, You should bend you knees (how far is up to you, whatever you are comfortable with as you get better you will probably bend your knees further to achieve higher ollies-You do not want to keep your knees bent long because you will raise up slower if you do). So just before you are ready to ollie bend your knees and just as soon as you get down to the point you want, you want to spring back up very quickley . At first you may not want to try to jump to hard because it makes it harder to do everything ,untill you are used to it. As you are springing back up you want to snap your tail on the ground and jump at the same time. you do not want you back foot to be touching the board at the moment it hits the ground. You want to push down hard on the tail but just before the moment it touches the ground you want your back foot not touching the tail when it hits the ground. This makes your snap have alot more spring or pop to it ,therefore helping to raise the back of the board. with you snap you want to try and get the board from nose to tail fairly verticle, you want to achieve at least a 45 degree angle with the gound. this is going to help you with the nextpart, the slide. Now this is going to be hard to time just right, but as you are snapping your tail you are going to be starting your slide. How you can get the feel of sliding is to just step on your boards tail so that the back wheels and the tail are the only things touching the ground, with you front foot in the aforementioned stance lay your foot sorta on its side . get used to the feel of this because this is how your foot is going to be positioned when you ollie. you want from your ankle bone to your knee to be at close to the same angle to the ground as your board. With you foot on its side like this slide it up the board toward the nose. This is the motion you will use when you ollie. OK now bact to where we were . So you jump and pop the board to a good angle-somewhere around or steeper than 45 degrees in the same motion ,and with your front foot on its side you are going to slide it up the board and kick it at a lesser angle than the board so it pushes down on the nose and picks up the tail end - and hopefully after lots of practice you should have a leveled out board in the air. Sometime soon you may want to start trying this while moving, but you can wait and try to perfect this before trying to do it while moving. Whenever you are starting to get a hang of this you will want to start working out the bugs. One mistake that most people make is. You do not want your back foot to interfere with the rising of the tail of the board resulting from the snap and the slide,so you want to pick up you back foot higher than the board is maybe only an inch higher(that is once you are really getting good at this that you can keep track of everything this closely)or two so that it does not stop the board from coming up. the only time you want to stop it from coming up with your back foot is if it's nat level, if the tail is already higher than the nose. Now about the jumping part. You started out probably nat bending you knees alot because it takes some getting used to. But now you will realize the harder you bend your knees the higher you will probably get, because you will bend your knees about the same in the air as you did on the ground , meaning that you are pulling it up higher. Speaking of pulling it up higher. The harder you jump to begin your ollie the higher you will get. You need to try to pull the board to you when you are in the air. You need to "suck up your knees" as they say. The harder you try to pull it up once you are used to the whole motion the higher you will get. By now you should be able to ollie pretty good, But when you are doing this while rolling the one big thing that you need to get good at is landing. An ollie is a trick that shows good timing and skills and can definetly be useful but if you cant land it it is useless. Well once you have gotten this far you should be able to figure out a lott of the little nit picking things yourself. I hope that I have helped you by explaining the steps as well as I know how. Hopefully you will be able to pick it up quicker that I did because I had nothing like this to read. I hope I havent left out to much at the end but it is 1:11 am and I am becoming groggy(I woke up at 6:00 am can you blame me for being tired?)whenever I read it again I will decide if I left to much out at the end ,and if I did i will resubmit it. If you need to know anything ,send questions or comments to my E- mail address. Happy ollieng.
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On 5/28/1999
Tim
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its not a technique but a question, how do you slide? im on my own out here in Canada and wanting to learn how to stop and slow down at speeds which are to high for carving. I've been beating the board for only about a week or two and have a good feel for it, but i need to find out about some of the techniques, any suggestions?
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On 5/28/1999
pierre
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if you want to ollie, get a shortboard, they are good for that, i'd like to see someone ollieing with a pintail, i'm shure it looks dumb.
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On 5/27/1999
Ian
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xtere My buddy at PSNY skate shop in NYC ollied my gravity 47" with a kick tail so I am sure its not impossable to do even without the tail
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On 5/27/1999 xtere
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I was reading the entries in this section. and I was very surprised to see people talking about ollieing the sector9 48" pintail. its not possible to ollie the pintail is it?? Theres no kick on the tail... and the tail is too long to pop it off the ground... and you need to pop the tail off the ground to get the nose of the board in the air.. isn't that the whole idea with ollieing?? so whats the deal here guys??
Ok. umm... anyone out there that can ollie the cosmic 2?? I haven't tried much to ollie it.. but I was hoping someone would have a few pointers for this board... cause the kick is much longer than the kicks on other boards...and i find the extra length of the kick to get in the way a bit
thanks mates
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On 5/26/1999
drew
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360 slides. Does anyone know how to do 360 degree slides at speed?
I can do collman slides, both leaning forward and backwards. Is there a good way to do a collman type slide with full rotation so you are headed down the hill the same way you started at the end of the slde?
please give a reply, even if it takes a while.
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On 5/25/1999 bakerhead
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ollies are simple. First you need the preparatory stance, put the ball of your back foot on the tail and your front foot around half way up the board or further.
Then, crouch down a little and jump. Just before you leave the board, slam down the tail and scrape your front foot up the board at about a 45 degree angle. The timing of the jump, slam and scrape takes time to learn as it must be done quickly so don't worry if you can't do it straight away. Crouch down more to acheive more height as it is the height of your jump which determines the height of the ollie itself. I hope I have been of some assistance.
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