Longboarding and actual skateboarding are two tottally seperate facets of skateboarding.
Concrete wave is the biggest joke of a skateboard magazine and I really wish that Micheal Brook would change it's name to "old guys' skateboard magazine" (by the way I am old myself at 32) . The only reason it is around is cause of sales of magazines like Thrasher, Skateboarding, Slap, Skateboarder, ConcretePowder, SBC and The Skateboard mag have created a market in 7 elevens, cornerstores, book stores, grocery stores and skateshops so it is able to piggy back off of the market that the real skateboard mags have created and sustained over the past 25 or so years.
Longboarding to and from the store or as transportation or just to get out and cruise on a sunny day is a great thing, I had a great huge board (over 6 ft long) made by Olliver Specht of Deep Cove and I would ride that sucker around the seawall and downtown all day with my longboarder friends just enjoying the cruise. I also rode a great Think longboard at Seylynn nightly when I lived across the street from that bowl back in 98.
Trying to be something as important to modern day skating is not a longboarders place. I have friends who I grew up with in North Van who have been riding longboards since before Sector Nine or any of those companies were even around. All they had for a choice was Skull Skates the best and most legit bigger and longer board supplier for the past twenty five years! All other's are copies of PD's products that he has offered for so many years through his shops.
Guys like MItchy, Jamie Sherratt, Shane Hunter, Langer, Carver Don Hartley and Eve Fever have been rocking the longboards as their daily rides since the 80's. These guys have shown the spirit of progression by adapting and learnig new school skateboard techniques on longer boards as they have been influenced by the people they skated with which happened to be regular sized skateboarders doing genuinely progressive flip tricks and lips tricks that reflected the moden day inovations of skateboarding. I have a problem with the guys who could not make name for themselves on a short board so they decided to grab a longer version of a short board and do the same tricks in skateparks as they used to do on a shorter proper skateboard. This is much more prevailent in the Claifornia skateboad scene.
I'm not down with the longboarders who try to claim they are just skateboarders like us here on the slap board, Goto Coastalriders.com and organize your get togethers and cruises and races across cities or up and down mountainsides but don't come to our turf and bitch about being made fun of on a real modern day skateboarding message board that's members are mostly involved with mainstream skateboard media, not some oultier offshoot of mainstream skateboarding.
Push your own industry don't come over to ours and try to make us change our minds about your pertinence to skateboarding.
Stinee......
"how many of you have ever tried doing a 1080 slide at 30mph with your face 5 inches from the ground? Or tried slalom, boardwalking etc etc?"
This is the kinda stuff that gives longboarders a bad rep with us modern day skateboarders. You sounded pretty kookish by asking that kinda question.
"So stop worrying about whatever other people are doing...it's all skateboarding."
This is a contradiction as you came here to defend your style of riding instead of living by the "stop worrying about whatever other people are saying" mantra.
As for the videos.....looks like fun but,
I have been skating the same hills in north van without pads, without a helmet, without leather or gloves and without a longboard for over 23 years. I was born and grew up on Capilano road and delivered newspapers on some of the steepest hills on the north shore. i never needed a longboard and I did it and adapted and had fun on a regular board bought at a standard skateshop. I slid multiple sets of T-Bones down to the bearings. I have gone really fast and never bothered to get a speedometer to brag about how fast I was going.
There is nothing wrong with riding a longerboard. Longboarding and modern day skatebeoarding are not one in the same. This is not a longboard forum.
WOW! That was a RANT and a half.......sorry for wasting your guys time.
Alex Chalmers
Topic: longboarding (Read 39145 times)