Skateboarding

[Rock_chick]

decided to get a vanguard with some R-IIs and lime zigzags and im stoked it feels just like surfing

Nice

[Rock_chick]

Well I've bought me a loaded dervish

I'll let you all know what it's like once it's set up...Not sure on the exact set up at this minute, but i Know it'll be good

[Tamaki]

Well I've bought me a loaded dervish

Sweet looking board. Can't wait to hear what you think about it.

I just picked up a Landyachtz evo today. Now if the weather would just change from constant downpour I'd be all set.

[Rock_chick]

Sweet looking board. Can't wait to hear what you think about it.

I just picked up a Landyachtz evo today. Now if the weather would just change from constant downpour I'd be all set.

Oh expect a full report. I'm debating how to set it up, I bought some of the sabre 190mm downhill trucks, I'm thinking of swapping those with the randal RII's on the battle axe. But yes, expect excited babbling once i've got it, I really want to learn how to slide.

an evo...drools, let me know what you think...i've been drooling over various DH and speedboards recently...maybe i should save that as a treat for next year

[Rock_chick]

Well the dervish has arrived and is set up. It's a Ffex 2 deck, 190mm sabre trucks with the purple freeride barrel bushings, 76mm gumballs with some inexpensive bearings in (my super swiss 6 bearings need to be cleaned).

I've had a quick go and it just turns. It pumps like a dream as well. I just want to go out and skate right now, but someone's coming round to look at our spare room

[Gabby]

decided to get a vanguard with some R-IIs and lime zigzags and im stoked it feels just like surfing

I dunno why but I love the water, i never took to skating when I was a kid as it seemed liked standing on something that was going to zip out from under me haha.  Now 20 odd years later I learn about longboards

[rejennyrated]

I dunno why but I love the water, i never took to skating when I was a kid as it seemed liked standing on something that was going to zip out from under me haha.  Now 20 odd years later I learn about longboards

Same here - only make that 40 to 50 years later! - Oh and I'm going to get one and have a go even at 51. Yeah I know I'm nuts - but I'll have loads of fun getting all those bruises... 

[~RoadToTrista~]

lolz I used to when I was 14.

I have 2 scars on my left arm that are both from the same skateboarding accident.

[rejennyrated]

I know its deviant and not boarding - but as I have just purchased a set of blades I just had to post this video and article from the Uk Daily Telegraph where a blader has just managed to set off a speed camera doing over 50 Mph!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8495305/Speed-skater-caught-doing-50mph-in-30mph-zone.html

With luck that will be me soon. 

[Rock_chick]

I dunno why but I love the water, i never took to skating when I was a kid as it seemed liked standing on something that was going to zip out from under me haha.  Now 20 odd years later I learn about longboards

You'd probably like the Dervish, it just carves and carves and carves

[Muffins]

I started skating when I was around 6-7 and kept at it until around 14-16 when I fractured a finger and ankle and it was never the same after that but I kept at it until around 23. I still learnt a lot of new tricks but lost a lot like front side kickflips and some of the more strenuous tricks like that, even 360 flips became less consistent. I was always more tech than big and loved switch.. I'd try and get as much footage in switch so people had to guess kinda symbolic in a way!
I've considered starting it up again much like a lot of other hobbies that I quit, I feel like a lot of past achievements and talents have been lost because I want to wipe my past yet I want to carry some of them over so I can still tell and show people what I did and was good at when I was younger! Once I'm healed I'll be back out there skating and also join a band and play music again! I look forward to sliding in some bigspins! (my fav).

[Gabby]

I know its deviant and not boarding - but as I have just purchased a set of blades I just had to post this video and article from the Uk Daily Telegraph where a blader has just managed to set off a speed camera doing over 50 Mph!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8495305/Speed-skater-caught-doing-50mph-in-30mph-zone.html

With luck that will be me soon. 

Jenny I saw this on the news lol.  I'm just imagining you posting your vid the fabulous thread, that would surprise a few people wouldn't it haha

And them bruises when starting aren't so bad me thinks   Well I bloody well hope not lol

Helena you're tempting me tempting me, £140 is very reasonable and my bicycle is a shambling wreck... that Dervish would be the FUN new transport I need.  I really need my laser though (6 sessions discount), slooowly saving for that   but getting there

[Rock_chick]

Helena you're tempting me tempting me, £140 is very reasonable and my bicycle is a shambling wreck... that Dervish would be the FUN new transport I need.

The £140 is deck only, a complete setup will be around £230...I went for a completely custom setup so in total it was about 260, but it was worth it for how damn well it rides.

http://www.stokedlongboards.co.uk/loaded-dervish-from-loaded-longboards-p-189.html

I'd go for the flex 1 option and setup 2 with the pink or lime big zigs. that baby will just role over anything

[Rock_chick]

I may have inadvertently bought another board. hee hee.

[Gabby]

What you bought haha   You can always see your buying as in preperation for that shop you might open one day haha

£260 is still good so many hills around where I live

[Tesseract Allen]

Interjection of something non-skating that I'm getting in to,


The Art Of Movement.