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| Q&A: Chris Yandall on Skogging (417 Posts)
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Roe Roe Roe Your SkateBoat
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On 6/21/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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Man. I'm down with someone doing something about ..another way to get exercise based on a current sporting fad!
Skogging is a great love of mine. Quite happy with Chaput's green wheels and bearings. Dude is a class act! And Original squeeky trucks, real loose! keep me roller skating on one foot or the other. That nice central location of the deck makes this movement "a little off the beaten track" when you can turn on a dime at higher speeds(9-12mph) from self generated varying speeds.
I'd like to see thin laminates with concave/cambered stiff designs. a 38" like you've seen me skating. And then a 40" with slight kicks on both ends following the same concave/cambered as the 38". Good luck on that one. Or call me and we can do some CADs.
My email works. Maybe someone at Roe's does too. Or perhaps a location of where the Roe team skates and I'll hookup there.
I'd like at least 100 boards and be willing to put half down to see it thru. just need to prototype with you. I need 3 to start!
Make it rain!?!
chris yandall
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Roe for Yandall...
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On 6/20/2006 SS
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Chris the Roe LDP would be the closest to what you are using now.
Hopefully they will send you one of those to test.
And when they do please report your findings here.
Maybe Roe could make a Chris Yandall signature Skogging/Pumping deck?
It can't hurt to talk with Gareth Roe about it.
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ROE
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On 6/20/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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ROE wants to send me a deck to trash, I'm down with it. My deck is getting twanged out like an overused tennis racket. :D
I haven't given up on my boards yet!
Still waiting for my new sets of originals :D Scotty! And Adam promised me some xtrucks I'm yet to see.
I'm down this weekend again after work for my little cruise!
Had too much Father's day cake. ooF!
This 53 year old needs to pump and skog to stay happy these days :D
cheers mates
cYa
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skogging tour..
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On 6/16/2006 silversurfer
wrote in from
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Adam have you tried skogging or pumping that course on your
Comet pumping rig (or other set up) yet?
What are your current favorite pumping, skogging and general skating set ups?
Chris Y. I think the new Roe LDP deck (38" with slight camber) would make
a great skogging and pumping deck. Add Original S8 trucks and Pink Gumballs and you have a killer set up. Simialar to your current 38 special set up, I think.
www.pavedwave.com (gear section #1).
www.roeslalom.com (PS series).
If your not gonna make your own decks maybe someone could produce a skogging deck for you as Roe did for peters with the LDP.
On the other hand, the Roe LDP might be perfect for skogging and pumping just the way it is. With the right trucks and wheels.
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My Favorite Weekly Skogging Tour
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On 6/13/2006
Adam
wrote in from
United States
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I've done that PB/MB loop on a beach cruiser more times than I can remember! A great part of the world.
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My Favorite Weekly Skogging Tour
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On 6/13/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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I think this workout will keep me young for many years to come. Come on down ! email me for a tour or lessons. :D
Cheers
Chris Yandall
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Exercise to stay young?
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On 6/12/2006
chris yandall
wrote in from
United States
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Many ways to get that sweat pouring thru your pours. And skogging may provide your soul's content to get that long distance semi-sprint swirling in your relentless pursuit to glide, slide and hide distortion from your movement.
Wife and I did a bunch of long distance run-arounds, she on her blades and me on the big 38"'er last weekend. Click here to see the area that we cruised to and fro :D
SENIOR CITIZEN SKATEBOARDERS FOREVER!
SAN DIEGO ROCKS!
cYa
p.s. coleman, getting kids motivated in general these days is an art! thanks for your suggestions! come down and skog with the skog master :D It;s on me! lemme know!
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Marissa and pushing switch.
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On 6/12/2006
Cliff Coleman
wrote in from
United States
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Marissa and any other skaters who wish to learn to push switch. Just remember to keep which ever foot you balance on, i.e. the non-pushing foot FLAT! This helps tremendously when trying to balance, pushing switch. Try pushing in your normal stance. You will notice that the foot you balance on is always flat when pushing correctly.
Hope this helps,
Cliff Coleman
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skogging habit
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On 6/11/2006 herbn
wrote in from
United States
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i don't do a lot of mileage pushing(i pedal), but i do carve out a fairly quick little hill three -four times a day,sometimes. But now everytime i push for more than a block, i do a bit of skogging, and the feet and balence is remembered. I pedal up the hill i'm gonna skate and go looking for new ones and watch for repavings, i have a bit of a backloge, a todo list, a toskate list.I'm getting itchy,time to skratche.
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vids, turn pooff blocker off, have flash player installed
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On 5/14/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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they work!
cYa
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Marissa Yandall :D - daughter skogger
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On 5/14/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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Marissa!
Finally, you are finding some time away from your busy bartending toil :D
That Denver skatepark rocks. I miss it. What a scene! Man I miss the rockies but the san diego beaches are my home now.
As for as eating concrete, I am yet to taste it. But it sounds nasty! May I suggest baby steps! remeber, 14 years ago??? when i forced you down triple diamonds on your skiis and now you're a kickass snowboarder. those kind of baby steps! you gotta yearn for it, burn for it and then make it rain. practice makes perfect. i am close to having reverse mongo strokes to not only alternate legs but to also alternate lead feet in pushing.
the slower you go the quicker you'll get it. try using your other leg while on carpet or something that impedes the natural roll. lately, a nice golf green does sweet.... just dont get caught! carpet should do. astro turf helps as well. just look at my videos. it should give you the general idea of the motion. and yes, uphill may lead to falling backwards before you fall forwards with you have been doing.
also, nice to see the activity on the board. and some support from those that see me tearing up the cement, a la senior skateboard citizen style even to this very day.
switching legs, skogging or whatever you wanna call it, is my main source of exercise.
Adam ! where the heck are those xtrucks????
My originals, that I skated heavily for the last 2 years are in pretty good shape without one adjustment or bushing change with over 2000 miles of skogging under my wing in a few years. Can Xtrucks beat that? And whoa, my big green chaput wheels are keeping a big smile on my face. As for my board, it has been totally scratched as I see sector 9 knockoffs being sold all over the beach areas thanks to me. sure sector 9 is the last word in longboards these days but since when has being the biggest meant being the best? i'm really in love with the 38" length for my skogging and pumping. i'm not dictating that's what it should be but I am saying, those that try that length may enjoy the benefits of what I'm "feeling" these days. and skogging is a love of mine. my gf knows it and most people on the boardwalks of mission and pacific beach are down with it too. so this is my spwaning ground for the disipline.
i hope to make strides soon in bigger leaps but the programming business is where my wits are taking me these days. keeping a low profile has been a treat for me. so life goes on and this board gets more activity as people see the viableness in the effort.
lessons, clinics... yea! bring it on!
cYa
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switch push
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On 5/13/2006 herbn
wrote in from
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try it on a slight up hill first
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learning to skog
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On 5/13/2006 marissa
wrote in from
United States
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hey dad...i just cant get the hang of it. every time i try to peddle with my other foot i eat concrete. can u help me out?
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downloaded a video
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On 5/12/2006 herbn
wrote in from
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skogging pacific beach,the bar is gone, it should be finnished can't seem to make it play, clicked on everything
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checked it out
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On 5/12/2006 herbn
wrote in from
United States
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i think i came into skating around issue three, and i think those pic are real early, i think i remember the high jumping shot and the toes(your toes i guess?)did the wheels sell well back then, did they take too long being released,there didn't seem to all that much promotion to who the skater behind the wheels was.
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yandall
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On 5/12/2006 herbn
wrote in from
United States
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when i think skogging i think yandall, and today it occured to me that even back in the day 76 77,78 the wheel sort of preceded the skater, i had no idea who yandall was at the time ,all i knew was there were these wheels that were like smoother grippier oj's, the shapes were similar. They also seemed slower,at least when rolling, i have figured out at some point that they were probabely meant to have even more grip than an oj and that would let you pump them harder, so they were probabely faster around cones, I've never seriously run a course with cones,mostly just skateparks ,street, dh, a couple of pools, everything but cones so slalom was not big deal to me.I knew piercy ,hutson,hester,ect ect but yandall gets filed away next to the the greg tai file,no insult intended you're probabely an excellent slalom skater and a well above average overall skater .Is there a yandall bio somewhere?,i really should have looked first asked later.
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practicing my basic skog
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On 5/12/2006 herbn
wrote in from
United States
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now i no longer skate over for white rice,i skog, switching feet while pushing on a busy street is a bit unnerving, but it's worth it, it's not totally new to me,done it just a little for many years. My left foot(front) push is still a bit sketchy, seems like place my heel down then roll to my toe,and there isn't the quickness/power of my natural pushing foot(right) but i'm working on it, sometimes i even switch all the way to mongo for a few strides. My low low trucks are not tippy enough loose enough, i'm making a new pair.
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skogging
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On 5/11/2006
Fellow
wrote in from
United States
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I stopped the mainstream skating of dropping down stairs and the such. I have been doing freestyle and jogging for next years track team. I see that skogging looks like a great exercise as it fits my demands. Chris is smarter than most folks because he doesn't conform, he innovates. We need more people like chris!
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some people jog slow, some jog sideways, some ...
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On 4/25/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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some people jog slow, some jog sideways, some job fast... it is still jogging.
i skog long distances without dancing. i skog with a dancing flair sometimes. Either case, I'm still alternating my legs. THAT is skogging.
at no point in time did i ever mention that skogging is only for long distances.
so let's try again. skogging is alternating your pushing legs to move your board forward, backward, and sideways if you turn hard enough wither way.
you can add style to it or look like a machine that never stops. either case is alternating your legs.
hope this defines the obvious.
Chris Yandall
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Rene Carrasco!
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On 4/25/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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Thanks Rene!
cYa
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Skogging......article.
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On 4/19/2006
Rene CANNONBALL Carrasco
wrote in from
United States
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Talofa ! Chris !
Dang, -I know I have your article on Skogging
somewhere around here......I was looking for it
the other day.....hmmmm.....
I'll get it to ya as soon as I can find it.
Take care,
.......-Rene C.
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Old Man River Rollin'
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On 4/16/2006
Chris Yandall
wrote in from
United States
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Hi and Thanks for yakkin!
If you can hang on for 10 miles at the rate I travel and speed, I don't think skogging can be totally construed as an artistic dance. I'm just saying .. go beyond the mechanistic repetition of switching legs. Make some cranking turns to help perpetuate your speed and enjoy the transition of switching from side to side fluidlly so the goal of getting a good "total" body work-out can be attained. Try pumping on one foot? You'll understand what i'm talking about then.
The objective here is to get some exercise using your board by attacking the cement as an aggressive rhythmic jogger. The spice of the exercise is to make sure you roll on a complete exercise routine by forcing all of your balance capabilities to the edge of wiping out.
I appreciate the guys who can skog forever. But since when has quantity dictated the necessity to enjoy what we are talking about here? What is the point where you suggest alternating legs defines what you think is “proper”?
I can ride my unicycle for miles and miles but that effort is very repetitious. I can skog for 8-10 hours long distances. whoa. wow.
I think dancing down the pavement is something noteworthy when you consider the athleticism required.
This morning the pavement dance was a full circle starting at Crown Point to the South Mission Jetties and back. I suggest you guys come down and stop your yapping and do it. It’s like sidewalk surfing on steroids. I’ll have my Tracker Trucks set up for the long distance but overall, my 38” cambered/concave deck.. which anyone can make these days, with Original Trucks and Gumballs are my favorite exercise gym on wheels.
You guys are like way off based and perhaps my poor English is the problem. Actions speak louder than words. It’s not like I sit at these damn computers all day and massage text to make my point, I know what I’m doing. You?
:D
Chris {rollerskating, skiing, snowboarding, surfing, hiking, better shaped} Yandall
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oh no
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On 4/12/2006 herbn
wrote in from
United States
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here comes the skancing page.
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you need a better word than 'skogging'
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On 4/12/2006 Erin
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Canada
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Finally the penny dropped that the style of skating that Chris does is more of dance on wheels. Graceful and artistic it seems like a lot more than really jogging via a skateboard which is what the term 'skogging' implies. For the longest time that's what I thought we were discussing here. Hence my frequent references to boards that were low and light and well suited to be kicked with alternating legs for a long distance.
But Chris, your style is much more artistic than that used to efficiently push a longboard for many kilometres on the flats. Your style really deserves its own term, one that more accurately reflects its beauty and flow.
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Styl'n while Skogging
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On 4/6/2006 OldStoke
wrote in from
United States
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O.K. , now I get it. I have been maintaining a high level of fitness and having fun at the same time, and though the young skaters think it's cool that a balding gray haired man like myself is on a longboard, to the enlightened I'm just a clumsy hack. I'm gonna work on the fluidity thing for sure.
I'm ready to check out the stickers, but lemme know when the Skogging personal trainer network gets a MI franchise. Who knows, maybe by then I'll get it down and I'll become the MI rep.
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