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Title: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Bubblegum Tate on April 27, 2016, 12:32:03 PM
My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmJ73LWSgq0#)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: shouldn't on April 27, 2016, 12:48:55 PM
that was definitely really gnarly but i still thank sean young and gerwer have done gnarlier hill bombs. i challenge frank to do go do it switch.

edit : think not thank  ;) don't spanly me.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Main on April 27, 2016, 12:52:09 PM
that was definitely really gnarly but i still thank sean young and gerwer have done gnarlier hill bombs. i challenge frank to do go do it switch.

I was just about to say, Gerwer could do that shit switch with his eyes closed. The hill he bombed in Destination Unknown had cracks and shit the whole way down.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: norrin radd on April 27, 2016, 12:59:22 PM
that was definitely really gnarly but i still thank sean young and gerwer have done gnarlier hill bombs. i challenge frank to do go do it switch.

Sean Young bomb is one of the best things that shows what skateboarding is about ever

Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: MintySandwhich on April 27, 2016, 01:03:53 PM
I'm not downplaying this at all, it is fucking gnarly

But just because it's the steepest hill, does not make it the biggest or the gnarliest
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: JB on April 27, 2016, 01:21:37 PM
so gnarly. i wonder if he tightened his trucks any beforehand.

i thought it might be cool to share the biggest hills we've bombed. heres mine from the bottom: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0542869,-86.244356,3a,75y,36.84h,82.88t/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0542869,-86.244356,3a,75y,36.84h,82.88t/data=)!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6nA6Xsyyv4ps1Ohmv0GyTw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

i was on vacation with my family and my plan was to go to the skatepark while my parents went to the beach. the locals trashed the park the night before and left a bunch of beer cans and cups and a bunch of broken chairs at the park, so the city closed it for the day. this hill was across from the beach and i wasnt about to give up on skating, so i figured id skate it. its not very steep, just long so i thought it would be a casual cruise all the way down, but once i started i knew i was fucked. i got super low and carved as hard as i could to try to control my speed, but i had wobbles going almost the whole way down. i thought about bailing into some grass, but i knew if i jumped off, id be fucked so i just held on. at the bottom, i slid out onto my ass and shot my board into a parked car. i think i wouldve been fine had i worn jeans, but i was wearing basketball shorts and my legs and ass cheeks got shredded. worst part was that i had to walk 3/4 of the way back up to get my hat the flew off my head, then walk back down because i wasnt about to eat shit twice.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: happenstance on April 27, 2016, 01:45:51 PM
If we are telling hill bomb stories, I will share the scariest experience of my life. Don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I am pretty sure I survived one of the gnarlier hill bombs, and it was a total accident. I did Marin Street between Spruce St and Los Angeles St in Berkeley:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data=)!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xda8034ea3b6b3289

I wasn't super familiar with the area and was bombing down Spruce (which is really mellow) and turned down Marin thinking it was also fairly mellow. Once I realized I was on a road that cut down a mountain, it was too late - too fast to powerslide or jump off. I can say for certain I went past 45 mph because a cop gave me a speeding ticket for 45 and he clocked me before the end of the hill.

Actually made it to the bottom, which had a traffic circle. No way I was going to make the turn so I went straight into it. Flew laterally about 20 feet, slid 20 feet, and tumbled into the street and was almost ran over by a car. Luckily it was wet grass so I left a 10 inch divot in the ground and was just cut up by the grass, had a bloody nose, and minor whiplash. They have since put chains around the traffic circle - sure am glad they weren't there when it happened.

Check out this video I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ)
I bombed :20 to 1:23

Thinking about the experience gives me anxiety, 10 years later.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: MintySandwhich on April 27, 2016, 01:47:21 PM
Good Idea JB, Michigan is dope


Structure 7 (Tempe, AZ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljEK8L7zwk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljEK8L7zwk)
(Sorry, only video I could find of the place was some longboarders)

It's a rollercoaster shaped garage where it goes straight, then down, straight, down, straight etc...
I bombed it from the 7th floor and ate shit on the way outta the garage because it doesn't lead anywhere. Shit's fun as hell though. I guess some biker died trying to go down it and fell out the side.

Same garage as this (0:18)

Ryan Lay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIST35Ehak#)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Grampa on April 27, 2016, 02:10:45 PM
I used to bomb this one hill in SF on a fairly regular basis because it was in my neighborhood. It was fun because there was a curb cut at the top, and then a series of hills that went on for a pretty long while. It wasn't very death-defying at all, but you still picked up a lot of speed. Anyways, I always felt good because I could do it without powersliding, and then later I saw footage of Gerwer doing it switch.

I also used to have to bomb an extremely busy street to get to work that went through two intersections, and would give me wobbles almost every time. One day I made it to the bottom feeling a lot sketchier than normal, and when I picked up my board the hanger on my front truck just fell off.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Style Police on April 27, 2016, 02:26:51 PM
Hill Bombing is gnarly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK72M9JwBvA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK72M9JwBvA)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: botefdunn on April 27, 2016, 02:40:22 PM
If we are telling hill bomb stories, I will share the scariest experience of my life. Don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I am pretty sure I survived one of the gnarlier hill bombs, and it was a total accident. I did Marin Street between Spruce St and Los Angeles St in Berkeley:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data=)!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xda8034ea3b6b3289

I wasn't super familiar with the area and was bombing down Spruce (which is really mellow) and turned down Marin thinking it was also fairly mellow. Once I realized I was on a road that cut down a mountain, it was too late - too fast to powerslide or jump off. I can say for certain I went past 45 mph because a cop gave me a speeding ticket for 45 and he clocked me before the end of the hill.



Actually made it to the bottom, which had a traffic circle. No way I was going to make the turn so I went straight into it. Flew laterally about 20 feet, slid 20 feet, and tumbled into the street and was almost ran over by a car. Luckily it was wet grass so I left a 10 inch divot in the ground and was just cut up by the grass, had a bloody nose, and minor whiplash. They have since put chains around the traffic circle - sure am glad they weren't there when it happened.

Check out this video I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ)
I bombed :20 to 1:23

Thinking about the experience gives me anxiety, 10 years later.


badass. I felt jittery just reading this (although granted,  I did just drink a coffee)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Deekay on April 27, 2016, 03:01:20 PM
Hoooly fuuuuck that was insane!

I just bombed my first hill of the year on my cruiser about a month ago. Usually there's enough headwind to make you able to do it so I just let loose and went for it. No fucking headwind were to be found and I started to wobble a little in the middle of the hill so I knew my only chance would be to brake with my foot. I tried but wobbled out and took a slam in full fucking speed.. I had never gone down that fast before and that scandinavia asphalt wasn't exactly smooth. I just tore my jeans to shit, fucking blood everywhere except for my dick and I couldn't sleep for 2 days because of the pain. Just watching this makes me shiver, goddamn hillbombs are gnarly.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: shark tits on April 27, 2016, 03:25:12 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Haleakala+Hwy,+Makawao,+HI+96768/Paia,+HI/@20.8761124,-156.4027738,13z/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Haleakala+Hwy,+Makawao,+HI+96768/Paia,+HI/@20.8761124,-156.4027738,13z/data=)!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x7954cd6cba3172a9:0x1469d1bb1d6a0895!2m2!1d-156.349589!2d20.8494006!1m5!1m1!1s0x7954d2200365e12d:0x25d15f8d992059c3!2m2!1d-156.3694444!2d20.9033333
if i did that ^ right. coming down the mountain [from halfway at the makawao library]. haight st was a good one, i usedta take the judah train and go back down it lawton, all the rest that i can't remember their names but they're parallelt and they're alphabetical.
wrigley's mansion hillbomb on catalina island was dope.
airport hill in worcester. shit, Orient st in worcester is gnarly and fast and even though i live at the top i usually always take the 2 mellower hills to Honey Farms.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Eric ricks on April 27, 2016, 03:56:16 PM
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If we are telling hill bomb stories, I will share the scariest experience of my life. Don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I am pretty sure I survived one of the gnarlier hill bombs, and it was a total accident. I did Marin Street between Spruce St and Los Angeles St in Berkeley:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data=)!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xda8034ea3b6b3289

I wasn't super familiar with the area and was bombing down Spruce (which is really mellow) and turned down Marin thinking it was also fairly mellow. Once I realized I was on a road that cut down a mountain, it was too late - too fast to powerslide or jump off. I can say for certain I went past 45 mph because a cop gave me a speeding ticket for 45 and he clocked me before the end of the hill.



Actually made it to the bottom, which had a traffic circle. No way I was going to make the turn so I went straight into it. Flew laterally about 20 feet, slid 20 feet, and tumbled into the street and was almost ran over by a car. Luckily it was wet grass so I left a 10 inch divot in the ground and was just cut up by the grass, had a bloody nose, and minor whiplash. They have since put chains around the traffic circle - sure am glad they weren't there when it happened.

Check out this video I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ)
I bombed :20 to 1:23

Thinking about the experience gives me anxiety, 10 years later.
[close]


badass. I felt jittery just reading this (although granted,  I did just drink a coffee)

That is fucked!!!!

Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: tkp on April 27, 2016, 04:33:07 PM
If you want to nerd out on the hill:

http://swarmlife.net/dissecting-nuges-hill/ (http://swarmlife.net/dissecting-nuges-hill/)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: givecigstosurfgroms on April 27, 2016, 04:54:38 PM
  Random girls on instagram don't even drive up this street with they're prius says Tony Rizzo.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: ungzilla on April 27, 2016, 07:04:30 PM
slow day in the lab.

based on google earth, Frank has the steeper of the two drop ins at a 26.3% grade for approx 360 ft. Nuge's street has a 23.4% grade,  for about 405 ft. Anyone know physics well enough to compute (all things being equal, like wind, rolling resistance, ground surface, body weight, etc) what kind of speeds we're talking about at the bottom of the hill, like who would be going faster, given that one is steeper and one is longer?

also happenstance, you're looking at a 15.2% grade over 1735 ft. you're gnarly.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: mook on April 27, 2016, 07:38:07 PM
Recently took a class on vibrations and it occured to me that speed wobbles are actually a form of resonance. The skateboarder and skateboard form a system and when the oscillations approach the system's natural frequency the speed wobbles build up. A way to increase natural frequency is to increase the stiffness so that may be why tightening down your trucks helps to avoid speed wobbles. Neat stuff.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: dougDfresh on April 27, 2016, 08:40:36 PM
That was gnarly. However, do the power-slides at the top count? I mean, homeboy bombed the hill but it seems like he slowed into it. I definitely can't do that shit but all the footage I've seen and when I bombed hills in my younger years, you usually power-slide once you are done with the hill. Not hating, just wondering what people thought.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: via on April 27, 2016, 08:50:16 PM
If we are telling hill bomb stories, I will share the scariest experience of my life. Don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I am pretty sure I survived one of the gnarlier hill bombs, and it was a total accident. I did Marin Street between Spruce St and Los Angeles St in Berkeley:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data=)!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xda8034ea3b6b3289

I wasn't super familiar with the area and was bombing down Spruce (which is really mellow) and turned down Marin thinking it was also fairly mellow. Once I realized I was on a road that cut down a mountain, it was too late - too fast to powerslide or jump off. I can say for certain I went past 45 mph because a cop gave me a speeding ticket for 45 and he clocked me before the end of the hill.

Actually made it to the bottom, which had a traffic circle. No way I was going to make the turn so I went straight into it. Flew laterally about 20 feet, slid 20 feet, and tumbled into the street and was almost ran over by a car. Luckily it was wet grass so I left a 10 inch divot in the ground and was just cut up by the grass, had a bloody nose, and minor whiplash. They have since put chains around the traffic circle - sure am glad they weren't there when it happened.

Check out this video I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ)
I bombed :20 to 1:23

Thinking about the experience gives me anxiety, 10 years later.

You got a fucking speeding ticket, skateboarding? That's the best thing I've ever heard. I would have that framed on my wall.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: happenstance on April 27, 2016, 09:11:55 PM
Expand Quote
If we are telling hill bomb stories, I will share the scariest experience of my life. Don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I am pretty sure I survived one of the gnarlier hill bombs, and it was a total accident. I did Marin Street between Spruce St and Los Angeles St in Berkeley:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data=)!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xda8034ea3b6b3289

I wasn't super familiar with the area and was bombing down Spruce (which is really mellow) and turned down Marin thinking it was also fairly mellow. Once I realized I was on a road that cut down a mountain, it was too late - too fast to powerslide or jump off. I can say for certain I went past 45 mph because a cop gave me a speeding ticket for 45 and he clocked me before the end of the hill.

Actually made it to the bottom, which had a traffic circle. No way I was going to make the turn so I went straight into it. Flew laterally about 20 feet, slid 20 feet, and tumbled into the street and was almost ran over by a car. Luckily it was wet grass so I left a 10 inch divot in the ground and was just cut up by the grass, had a bloody nose, and minor whiplash. They have since put chains around the traffic circle - sure am glad they weren't there when it happened.

Check out this video I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ)
I bombed :20 to 1:23

Thinking about the experience gives me anxiety, 10 years later.
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You got a fucking speeding ticket, skateboarding? That's the best thing I've ever heard. I would have that framed on my wall.
I did frame it and it has been on my wall for a decade! Unfortunately, I glanced at it for the first time in about 2 years and noticed that the sun bleached the pen completely off (it was the carbon copy page). Oh well, still have the terrifying memory.

It was a moving violation ticket and he wrote "skateboard" as the car make/model!

As a side note, the cop was a complete dick. I was basically in shock from the experience and the cop kept telling me that I was the biggest moron, dumbass, idiot, etc.. I told him I agreed and requested he quietly write my ticket. He would not stop. I said something along the lines that "you wouldn't say this to someone that caused a traffic accident in a car", and he paused for a moment and just kept ranting. He demanded an ambulance come see me to which I replied I was fine, but he 'detained' me and just kept ranting. This went on for about 15 minutes and when the ambulance showed up and heard the cop, they actually asked him to stop.

The cool news is I successfully fought the ticket because he gave me a moving violation that is reserved for automobiles and a skateboard didn't fit the definition of an automobile according to the California vehicle code.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: N.L. on April 27, 2016, 09:44:07 PM
Love stories like this Happenstance. Got juiced reading it!

Nice hill bomb compilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jO2CHo1gJc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jO2CHo1gJc)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: doublesteveburger on April 27, 2016, 09:49:23 PM
Good Idea JB, Michigan is dope


Structure 7 (Tempe, AZ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljEK8L7zwk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljEK8L7zwk)
(Sorry, only video I could find of the place was some longboarders)

It's a rollercoaster shaped garage where it goes straight, then down, straight, down, straight etc...
I bombed it from the 7th floor and ate shit on the way outta the garage because it doesn't lead anywhere. Shit's fun as hell though. I guess some biker died trying to go down it and fell out the side.

Same garage as this (0:18)

Ryan Lay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIST35Ehak#)



Holy shit, Minty, how far did you make it from the 7th floor? I've never been there (which is stupid considering I live in Tempe) but I hear it's fun as fuck.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: HyperBeam on April 27, 2016, 09:58:52 PM
you're smoking crack if you think gerwer can do this switch. you guys are suspiciously quick to start saying "gerwer this, sean young that." just because some dude bombs a gnarly hill in LA doesn't mean we have to defend SF skate history.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: shouldn't on April 27, 2016, 10:25:01 PM
you're smoking crack if you think gerwer can do this switch. you guys are suspiciously quick to start saying "gerwer this, sean young that." just because some dude bombs a gnarly hill in LA doesn't mean we have to defend SF skate history.
nuge.... is that you?
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: buckfitchesmetgoney on April 27, 2016, 10:40:48 PM
slow day in the lab.

based on google earth, Frank has the steeper of the two drop ins at a 26.3% grade for approx 360 ft. Nuge's street has a 23.4% grade,  for about 405 ft. Anyone know physics well enough to compute (all things being equal, like wind, rolling resistance, ground surface, body weight, etc) what kind of speeds we're talking about at the bottom of the hill, like who would be going faster, given that one is steeper and one is longer?

also happenstance, you're looking at a 15.2% grade over 1735 ft. you're gnarly.
Ignoring the powerslides and assuming there is no other friction
mgh=1/2mvf^2-1/2mvo^2
Mass is the same throughout and initial velocity is zero so both can be taken out of the equation.
Final velocity would equal the square root of 2(gravity)(height)
26.3% grade is about 14.7 degrees
23.4% grade is about 13.2 degrees
Height=length of hill in the x axis times the tangent of the angle
Vf(Nuge)=sqrt(2(9.80m/s^2)(123m)tan13.2)=23.779m/s
Vf (Frank)=sqrt(2(9.80m/s^2)(110m)tan14.7)=23.783m/s
In miles per hour, Nuge's is 53.20mph, while Frank's is 53.21mph
Holy shit
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Andrefosho on April 27, 2016, 10:57:20 PM
This one which Emmanuel did stands in my memory as one of gnarliest I have seen. Just control thru the wobbles going full speed is crazy.

Behind the Scenes - Emmanuel Guzman Hill Bomb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbHdl56IGno#)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: yohimbe718 on April 27, 2016, 11:32:50 PM
If we are telling hill bomb stories, I will share the scariest experience of my life. Don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I am pretty sure I survived one of the gnarlier hill bombs, and it was a total accident. I did Marin Street between Spruce St and Los Angeles St in Berkeley:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data= (https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley/@37.8916759,-122.2711072,377m/data=)!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xda8034ea3b6b3289

I wasn't super familiar with the area and was bombing down Spruce (which is really mellow) and turned down Marin thinking it was also fairly mellow. Once I realized I was on a road that cut down a mountain, it was too late - too fast to powerslide or jump off. I can say for certain I went past 45 mph because a cop gave me a speeding ticket for 45 and he clocked me before the end of the hill.

Actually made it to the bottom, which had a traffic circle. No way I was going to make the turn so I went straight into it. Flew laterally about 20 feet, slid 20 feet, and tumbled into the street and was almost ran over by a car. Luckily it was wet grass so I left a 10 inch divot in the ground and was just cut up by the grass, had a bloody nose, and minor whiplash. They have since put chains around the traffic circle - sure am glad they weren't there when it happened.

Check out this video I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWc-CoVpQ)
I bombed :20 to 1:23

Thinking about the experience gives me anxiety, 10 years later.

I know that hill.. it's on the way to the golf course up at the top of that little mountain. That's insane man. It literally is the longest steepest hill I've ever driven down.. burning the brakes the whole way down.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Changes on April 27, 2016, 11:50:06 PM
he didn't start from the top, side top doesn't count, should of gone straight down that thing, I'm gonna have to go there and do it now
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: sluggers on April 28, 2016, 02:53:57 AM
I am pretty sure I bombed one of the steepest that is Providence, nut here is the list:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: sluggers on April 28, 2016, 02:54:48 AM
I am pretty sure I bombed one of the steepest that is Providence, but here is the list:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Chris Hansen is back on April 28, 2016, 03:01:58 AM
Best thread. I miss being young and reckless, now when I'm at the top of a hill, all I can think about is how much work I'll miss if I eat shit. Grewer parting the sea of children will go down in skate history. That could have been the worst day of his life.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: somethingmustbreaknow on April 28, 2016, 04:19:34 AM
Hoooly fuuuuck that was insane!

I just bombed my first hill of the year on my cruiser about a month ago. Usually there's enough headwind to make you able to do it so I just let loose and went for it. No fucking headwind were to be found and I started to wobble a little in the middle of the hill so I knew my only chance would be to brake with my foot. I tried but wobbled out and took a slam in full fucking speed.. I had never gone down that fast before and that scandinavia asphalt wasn't exactly smooth. I just tore my jeans to shit, fucking blood everywhere except for my dick and I couldn't sleep for 2 days because of the pain. Just watching this makes me shiver, goddamn hillbombs are gnarly.

Norwegian skaterboy complication (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD9_Y0M_30#)

is that you?
haha just kidding. your story just reminded me of that classic youtube video ;)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: stephop on April 28, 2016, 04:39:57 AM
I am pretty sure I bombed one of the steepest that is Providence, nut here is the list:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html)

College Hill? I never bombed it except the last section but used to skate from Thayer to downtown through traffic in my younger days all the time. I wouldn't do it now if you paid me. Man is sucked chasing your board if flew out.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: ungzilla on April 28, 2016, 05:32:11 AM
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slow day in the lab.

based on google earth, Frank has the steeper of the two drop ins at a 26.3% grade for approx 360 ft. Nuge's street has a 23.4% grade,  for about 405 ft. Anyone know physics well enough to compute (all things being equal, like wind, rolling resistance, ground surface, body weight, etc) what kind of speeds we're talking about at the bottom of the hill, like who would be going faster, given that one is steeper and one is longer?

also happenstance, you're looking at a 15.2% grade over 1735 ft. you're gnarly.
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Ignoring the powerslides and assuming there is no other friction
mgh=1/2mvf^2-1/2mvo^2
Mass is the same throughout and initial velocity is zero so both can be taken out of the equation.
Final velocity would equal the square root of 2(gravity)(height)
26.3% grade is about 14.7 degrees
23.4% grade is about 13.2 degrees
Height=length of hill in the x axis times the tangent of the angle
Vf(Nuge)=sqrt(2(9.80m/s^2)(123m)tan13.2)=23.779m/s
Vf (Frank)=sqrt(2(9.80m/s^2)(110m)tan14.7)=23.783m/s
In miles per hour, Nuge's is 53.20mph, while Frank's is 53.21mph
Holy shit

sick maths! i doubt they got into the fifties since all friction was ignored but i do think they probably ended up having very similar top speeds, as they both did powerslides towards the top, and i doubt the differences in wind resistance (although Nuge was several hundred feet above sea level, vs more or less sea level for Frank) rolling resistance etc were much different. i tend to think Frank's is scarier since the point at which he ditched is merely like 10 meters of flat before even more downhill, and in the middle of a busy ass city.


Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: perverted super otaku! on April 28, 2016, 05:58:26 AM
happenstance, wow, that is nuts
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: tkp on April 28, 2016, 10:11:38 AM
John Fitzgerald bombed a 41 degree hill next to the Flower Shop. Bradford Street above Tompkins. It was freshly paved, but there was a complete lack of a rollaway zone.

http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/ (http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Deekay on April 28, 2016, 01:47:11 PM
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Hoooly fuuuuck that was insane!

I just bombed my first hill of the year on my cruiser about a month ago. Usually there's enough headwind to make you able to do it so I just let loose and went for it. No fucking headwind were to be found and I started to wobble a little in the middle of the hill so I knew my only chance would be to brake with my foot. I tried but wobbled out and took a slam in full fucking speed.. I had never gone down that fast before and that scandinavia asphalt wasn't exactly smooth. I just tore my jeans to shit, fucking blood everywhere except for my dick and I couldn't sleep for 2 days because of the pain. Just watching this makes me shiver, goddamn hillbombs are gnarly.
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*Norweigan fuckboy video*

is that you?
haha just kidding. your story just reminded me of that classic youtube video ;)

Haha I hadn't seen that one, that was awesome.. I wonder why he thought he could make it, so far from being close goddamn
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: buckfitchesmetgoney on April 28, 2016, 01:59:37 PM
John Fitzgerald bombed a 41 degree hill next to the Flower Shop. Bradford Street above Tompkins. It was freshly paved, but there was a complete lack of a rollaway zone.

http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/ (http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw)
Just to clarify, percent grade is not the same as degree.
41% grade is about 22.3 degrees
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: MintySandwhich on April 28, 2016, 02:26:39 PM
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John Fitzgerald bombed a 41 degree hill next to the Flower Shop. Bradford Street above Tompkins. It was freshly paved, but there was a complete lack of a rollaway zone.

http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/ (http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw)
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Just to clarify, percent grade is not the same as degree.
41% grade is about 22.3 degrees

Actually learning about this in math right now, you are correct sir
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: tkp on April 28, 2016, 04:17:42 PM
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John Fitzgerald bombed a 41 degree hill next to the Flower Shop. Bradford Street above Tompkins. It was freshly paved, but there was a complete lack of a rollaway zone.

http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/ (http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw)
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Just to clarify, percent grade is not the same as degree.
41% grade is about 22.3 degrees

Word, thanks for clarifying that.

According to http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/slope-degrees-gradient-grade-d_1562.html (http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/slope-degrees-gradient-grade-d_1562.html)

Nuge's hill was around a 60-62% grade. Yikes!
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Atiba Applebum on April 28, 2016, 04:59:10 PM
My War - a recollection of someone deciding to do somethin  spur of the moment, testing it at the halfway mark successfully, then doing it all the way first try.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: wallieD on April 28, 2016, 06:54:48 PM
what happens if you bomb a hill with your axle nuts just tight enough for the wheels to not lock? ( hopefully those braille retards read this and try it out)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Jud Nestorkins on April 29, 2016, 03:43:24 AM
That was gnarly. However, do the power-slides at the top count? I mean, homeboy bombed the hill but it seems like he slowed into it. I definitely can't do that shit but all the footage I've seen and when I bombed hills in my younger years, you usually power-slide once you are done with the hill. Not hating, just wondering what people thought.
That's being nitpicky as fuck. Do you realize that he bombed the 5th steepest hill in the world and you don't think it counts because he did a powerslide near the top???? I mean even so after about a second or two your already going like 100 mph.


Remember before the internet when you actually had to wait for a video to even come out? Now you have kids that are so desensitized that they can't even appricate this because "he did a powerslide near the top" or because "Gerwer can do it better." I mean what the fuck, this isn't street league. � Who cares who did what better. Just be stoked that you witnessed something super rad and gnarly on a skateboard!
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: flempa1one on April 29, 2016, 03:52:53 AM
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That was gnarly. However, do the power-slides at the top count? I mean, homeboy bombed the hill but it seems like he slowed into it. I definitely can't do that shit but all the footage I've seen and when I bombed hills in my younger years, you usually power-slide once you are done with the hill. Not hating, just wondering what people thought.
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That's being nitpicky as fuck. Do you realize that he bombed the 5th steepest hill in the world and you don't think it counts because he did a powerslide near the top???? I mean even so after about a second or two your already going like 100 mph.


Remember before the internet when you actually had to wait for a video to even come out? Now you have kids that are so desensitized that they can't even appricate this because "he did a powerslide near the top" or because "Gerwer can do it better." I mean what the fuck, this isn't street league. � Who cares who did what better. Just be stoked that you witnessed something super rad and gnarly on a skateboard!

FYI the world is bigger than America, there may actually be steeper hills somewhere else  ::)

Surprised no one posted this yet

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEJxgvVR6kL/?taken-by=gx1000 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BEJxgvVR6kL/?taken-by=gx1000)
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: c. 1995 on April 29, 2016, 03:56:06 AM
Nuge's hill was around a 60-62% grade. Yikes!

Hill looked steep as shit but not even close to 60% grade
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Jud Nestorkins on April 29, 2016, 04:00:05 AM
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That was gnarly. However, do the power-slides at the top count? I mean, homeboy bombed the hill but it seems like he slowed into it. I definitely can't do that shit but all the footage I've seen and when I bombed hills in my younger years, you usually power-slide once you are done with the hill. Not hating, just wondering what people thought.
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That's being nitpicky as fuck. Do you realize that he bombed the 5th steepest hill in the world and you don't think it counts because he did a powerslide near the top???? I mean even so after about a second or two your already going like 100 mph.


Remember before the internet when you actually had to wait for a video to even come out? Now you have kids that are so desensitized that they can't even appricate this because "he did a powerslide near the top" or because "Gerwer can do it better." I mean what the fuck, this isn't street league. � Who cares who did what better. Just be stoked that you witnessed something super rad and gnarly on a skateboard!
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FYI the world is bigger than America, there may actually be steeper hills somewhere else  ::)

Surprised no one posted this yet

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEJxgvVR6kL/?taken-by=gx1000 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BEJxgvVR6kL/?taken-by=gx1000)

Oh my bad. I thought Neckface said 5th steepest in the world. Must have missed that.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Darty on April 29, 2016, 04:50:06 AM
Good Idea JB, Michigan is dope


Structure 7 (Tempe, AZ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljEK8L7zwk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljEK8L7zwk)
(Sorry, only video I could find of the place was some longboarders)

It's a rollercoaster shaped garage where it goes straight, then down, straight, down, straight etc...
I bombed it from the 7th floor and ate shit on the way outta the garage because it doesn't lead anywhere. Shit's fun as hell though. I guess some biker died trying to go down it and fell out the side.

Same garage as this (0:18)

Ryan Lay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIST35Ehak#)

I've skated the curbs right next to the garage a few times but never actually bombed it from the top. Looks like it'd be dangerous as fuck without powersliding. 
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: ungzilla on April 29, 2016, 05:15:05 AM
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John Fitzgerald bombed a 41 degree hill next to the Flower Shop. Bradford Street above Tompkins. It was freshly paved, but there was a complete lack of a rollaway zone.

http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/ (http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3yDL4Piuw)
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Just to clarify, percent grade is not the same as degree.
41% grade is about 22.3 degrees
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Word, thanks for clarifying that.

According to http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/slope-degrees-gradient-grade-d_1562.html (http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/slope-degrees-gradient-grade-d_1562.html)

Nuge's hill was around a 60-62% grade. Yikes!

no it wasn't, approx a 100 ft drop and 400 ft horizontal distance traveled. rise over run = 100/400 = 0.25, 0.25*100 = about a 25% grade

not sure where the huffpo got their figures from, maybe it's just the max slope on each respective section of road given
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: givecigstosurfgroms on April 29, 2016, 09:39:20 AM
I bombed a hill barefoot and jumped off my board and slid about 15 feet on my feet.  The road had a film of dried whatever and my feet felt fine!  Another time in Van I was bombing a hill and a van full of dudes pulls out into my way.  I four wheel slid to a full standing on my board stop about a foot in front of the van staring at these dudes.  We all went "YAY!!" cause it was fun.
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: Jim and Dan on April 29, 2016, 10:26:21 AM
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I am pretty sure I bombed one of the steepest that is Providence, nut here is the list:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559.html)
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College Hill? I never bombed it except the last section but used to skate from Thayer to downtown through traffic in my younger days all the time. I wouldn't do it now if you paid me. Man is sucked chasing your board if flew out.

Zered's at the end of Vicious Cycle is in Providence & fucked!

Providence actually has some big hills leading downtown from the East Side, Worcester & Fall River have some gnarly shit as well.

I bombed some pretty big mountain roads in New Hampshire that were definitely no run-out/dangerous as fuck...
Title: Re: My War: Nuge's Hill Bomb
Post by: unerds on April 29, 2016, 10:41:16 AM
these clowns: https://www.reddit.com/r/skateboarding/comments/4gqs6n/my_war_nuges_hill_bomb/d2k367p (https://www.reddit.com/r/skateboarding/comments/4gqs6n/my_war_nuges_hill_bomb/d2k367p)