[Dogtown]

Any fellow longboarders on here?

I've really been getting into sliding, though this cursed rain means I've not been out for a bit.

I've also built a press to make my own boards with kicktails & concave. I'm getting better with each one. Sold a few to mates and hope to get a few into some shops too.

Check out the clip below of me and my mate sliding a wicked hill on a couple of the boards that I made. I'm the one wearing the red gloves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2GvhPdPu3I

Off to Cadwell Park race circuit on Sunday for a full day's organised sesh. Hopefully I can hone my skills. I canny wait man!

[Lorrie]

aha! when I moved from Vancouver many years ago my friends got together and bought me a sweet Skull Skates longboard.

Rode it a few times, but got sick of picking gravel out of my hands and put it away.

Fun to watch, though. There's a bunch of guys that would ride the GP track in Montreal and they'd do some crazy stuff. Never tempted me to bring it back out.

[mr.pure]

Fuckin' hell.
What the fuck are your gloves made of ?

[Dogtown]

Ha ha, well you can get dead expensive gloves or, like I did, make your own.

Get some crappy gardening gloves. Cut out some thick plastic chopping board with a jigsaw. Blowtorch the shit out of it (wooooo the fumes!) and stick it onto the gloves.

Voila, hard wearing slide gloves that last ages.

[deftoned]

When I opened the thread I thought you meant Longboard surfing - which I have actually dabbled in a bit this Summer. That sliding looks quite cool though

My skateboard is a lot smaller though - i've built a wee mini board with decent hardware, when I had a full sized board I hurt myself too much doing silly things But lately I've been looking at BMXs for a bit of park riding?

[Sweet_Kicks]

Man that looks some crazy shit, the slide your mate does @ 1m 25 is sweeeet!