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Title: Curb Cuts
Post by: Silky Johnson on July 02, 2016, 04:35:42 PM

Any advice to utilize the curb cut to its maximum potential? I can barely get any type of snap off them.

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: ChuckRamone on July 03, 2016, 05:57:07 AM

you have to really feel that puppy as you ride up it and snap at the sweet spot somewhere near when your front wheels near the top

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: perverted super otaku! on July 03, 2016, 06:08:01 AM

Always an interesting obstacle, seems like California has the most straight forward/perfect ones, where as Canada and the NE US has trickier ones often short and steep, Alex Olson is good on them. It can be pretty tricky to crack a good satisfying ollie on them sometimes, but that's what makes them fun

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: HyperBeam on July 13, 2016, 10:42:14 PM

god curb cuts are sick

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: planman on July 13, 2016, 11:14:14 PM

Just skate it like a smaller bank

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: sharkin on July 14, 2016, 09:47:00 AM

Timing the pop is tough, I usually have to hit one 2 or 3 times before I start launching off it.


I hate curb cuts have these lego pad shits on em too

(http://www.advancedtrafficsupplies.com/pics/xflo_image.GIF)

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: MintySandwhich on July 14, 2016, 10:34:14 AM

^
Oh man :( I honestly believe those lego pads are gonna be the next stage in skate stopping. That will ruin any spot!

All you California heads, be thankful for your curb cuts. Here in Arizona, they're nonexistent except for certain places in downtown. I remember the first time i skated one in LA, it felt like a god damn kicker in a skatepark lol

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: slappies on July 15, 2016, 06:59:48 AM

I could be wrong, but I think those are intended so that blind people can know where the sidewalks ends before wandering into traffic.

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: artsy on July 15, 2016, 08:33:10 AM

Quote from: slappies on July 15, 2016, 06:59:48 AM

I could be wrong, but I think those are intended so that blind people can know where the sidewalks ends before wandering into traffic.

this is correct

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: Getty on July 15, 2016, 10:37:36 PM

3:00 is where my love affair with curb cuts began...

Santa Cruz "Wheels on Fire" full intro HQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP9BqIZC00k#)

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: sharkin on July 16, 2016, 06:35:55 AM

(https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e15/13707348_1042728799175059_841145586_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTI5NTIyNzAxMzIwMzkwNzgxOQ%3D%3D.2)

new scumco deck with a curb cut pad on the tail

Title: Re: Curb Cuts
Post by: animalflesh on July 18, 2016, 01:52:12 PM

I feel like theres always that spit in the curb cut where you feel like it's throwing your body forward a little bit just riding off of it, so I ride off of it a few times until I feel comfortable with where it is and try to ollie or early grab right there