Longboarding anyone?

Hadn't seen this talked about much....Figured I'd see who's into longboarding. I absolutely love it...never thought i'd ever be the type to buy a longboard but i have and use it every day.

Post up your board and any cool stories and what not.

I'm going to go take a picture of my current board in a sec.

Here it is....

It's a bustin strike w/ 180mm R-II's and some abec11 70mm 88A flashbacks.



Its a pretty good board. A little stiff for my liking but its fast and stable.

Currently having to take a break right now cause i fucked up sunday night and beefed pretty hard. Knocked my shoulder outta socket and tore my labram. PT for 2 months....woohoo.

 

I re-glassed an abandoned 8'6" board in college....Don't even know what kind it was. Surfed Rhode Island beaches 4 days a week and at least all day one day a weekend for most of my sophomore and junior years (including the winter). Surfed the Outer Banks on it too.

I swapped to a shortboard after that...and then Kiteboarding, and since then have sold all my boards except my snowboard....

If I move somewhere that surfing is better for my next unit, I'll probably pick up a new board or an ocean kayak...

 

if its on a board you must enjoy it lol.

 

check out my youtube run we filmed! i'm in the gold Honda following on this run down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAH7ct64DI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9icq1oCQLI4&feature=related

 

Oh no....SKATE longboards...

I tried one once....I busted my ass BAD....I haven't gone back....Disregard that other guy who posted up^ there

 

i wish we had runs like that where i'm at. at most i can a minute outta something mild.

 

that run makes my legs shake everytime we do it. 3 miles of paved wave averaging 32-37 mpg. notice the drafting technique we nascar that shit

 

I'll post up a pic of my stick when I get off work

 

that looks so cool. bout how fast were yall going?

 

about 37mph is the fastest we can go

 

nice. I'm not very comfortable at 35 with the wheels i have right now. On my 66A's i'm fine.

 

wow. AWESOME

 

haha I'm not very comfy at 35 either!

 

where is that run by the way

 

Dry Creek Road, right outside of Johnson City, TN on buffalo mtn

google maps this:

Dry Creek Rd, Washington, Tennessee 37659

 

Sector Nine 75A wheels

 

like it. those 150's?

 

tell ya the truth I dont know much about the parts on it, they say 75A on them so i guess 75 mm. I bought it as a package deal to keep me busy when snowboarding is in the off season

 

haha ok.

 

That board looks pretty stable considering how wide the trucks are.

When I started boarding, (I'm 43), we has skateboards with chalk wheels, then boards advanced and had a kick tail, and got bigger, now I see boards with really skinny wheels that I don't know what the advantage of that is.

So the sport grew, died, and grew back again.