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about long longboards for Sidewalk Surfing
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On 10/5/2002
Datu Ramel
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Hey everybody, especially lbk and Hec, let me chime in about the Kisawi. I have ridden the 57 Ed Economy in a double row parking garage - center access aisle and two angled rows for cars on the sides, 16m or 50ft wide - and the 57incher can make linked turns, but you must be very precise about using all the width and turning a little bit uphill every few traverses to check your speed. I have a 46 Sector 9 pintail concave rocker that wiggles and cruises very well, but the Ed Economy with its length was a pleasant surprise when I found out I could pump it at a pretty good clip; a quarter mile (400m) in ninety seconds. I'm 170lbs and half a century old, and I enjoy how the teenagers freak out when I show up just carrying a longboard. The tandem possibilities with young children and lightweight non-males are another benefit.
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Hec, Lush Sidewalker Surfer
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On 10/5/2002 lbk
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In my opinion for sidewalk surfing flats or big mellow hills, I would go for that Kisawi board. But if you plan to ride parking garages you might need a smaller board for tight turns. Then again if the corners are wide enough, then go with the Kisawi.
Also it seems like the Kisawi has a similar flex to the Ed Economy Street Rider thus making the board fun to ride on the flats because you can pump it. Lastly, the bigger boards like the size of Kisawi allow for walking the board like a surfboard longboard.
-> More reviews on Lush Longboards try- Silverfish.cc
-> Skateboard Surf Gear- http://www.surfacemotion.com/gear/gearskt.html
-> How to Sidewalk Surf - http://www.surfacemotion.com/
-> How to Sidewalk Surf Basics- http://www.surfacemotion.com/basics/basics_conts.html
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Old, but new !!!
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On 10/5/2002 Hec
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G'day all.
I'm an Aussie trapped in germany for the next few months. Missing my regular surfs and are thinking about getting a skatebaord to ease the depression. At 35 i'm not interested in tricks, just wanna cruise. Have found a European place called Lush Longboards that seems to have what I might be after http://www.lushlongboards.com/.
The 2 models that caught my eye are the Legend 48 and the Kisawi. The Kisawa looks sweet, but is 5 foot long. Can these things be turned? Do you need big hills for these or will they work on a flat. The weather is going to turn bad here very soon, so most of my skating will be done in my brand new work car park which is huge and has 4 - 5 levels.
Anyone have any ideas or recommendations? Would either the 48 or the 60 be able to provide me with even a fraction of the enjoyment my regular surfs used to provide? Sorry for the vagueness of these questions, but I haven't skated since about 1978 and know nothing about these boards.
Hec
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gnarly
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On 10/5/2002
will
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drop-knee land boogie
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Northbrook velodrome
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On 10/4/2002
Datu Ramel
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Hi Carl and everyone. In the Chicago area, Northbrook had bicycle races for many years at an asphalt banked track off Waukegan Road by the old sled hill. I haven't been by there in a while, some condos have been built blocking the view from the highway. I'll check it out.
In the west suburbs my buddy at Sally's Coffeeshop by the commuter station says the sidewalks around Lake Ellyn in Wheaton are very smooth with lots of elevation changes. He adds that the parking lot at Glenbard West has a slope.
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Surfing the Velodrome
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On 10/4/2002
C-Money
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We used to skate a velodrome in a suburb of Seattle back in the mid-70s. It was great. Silky smooth concrete, and pumping up and down in those steeply banked corners was a real surf-like sensation. I hadn't thought of skating a velodrome in years, I'm going to start looking for one here in Chicagoland!
thanks,
carl kincaid
knucklehead racing team
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Duck Diving
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On 10/3/2002 lbk
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The end of the sidewalk was coming up and I decided to kick out and then tried to duck dive and broke off my front teeth.
To tell the truth, I did break off my front teeth 20 years ago but it was on a Rock-n-Roll that went bad. Thought I was in the deeper end of the bowl and didn't get my arms out in time.
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sidewalk surfing
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On 10/3/2002
brazilian sidewalk surfer
wrote in from
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It's very nice find out people around the world feeling the way I do feel when I grab my longboard and start sidewalk surfing. I'm 31 yars old and hadn't been skating for ten years. One of these days I saw a 44 incher of a friend of mine and fell in love! I decided to buy one for me, and now I've been sidewalk surfing almost all night, when I get back home after work. The wind breezing on my face makes me feel a way I do feel only when I surf a 4 footer left on my favorite spot... Another thing I like is the expression of the people when they see me whith that big funny skateboard. Probably they think I am crazy to be a skategeezer. They will never feel the feel I'm talking about...
sorry for my poor english, I live in Brazil but I'm a passionate sidewalk surfer.
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Sidewalk surfin Ft Lauderdale
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On 10/2/2002
george
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one of my favorite memories is from the summertime on the beach at Ft. Lauderdale circa 1976-79. we would take the bus down with our skateboards and hang out. get a Lenmon rush for $1.00 and look at the girls. (we were groms they didn't look back) there are never waves in Fl in the summer, i have water skiied the ocean during the evening glass hours. but cruising on my skateboard with my friends from the old Elbo room to the Candy Store the visions were awesome. ride all the driveways get shooed out, the cops never bothered us just told us to leave and we'd move on. hit the bridge when a boat went by, try parking garages, Pier 66 parking lot. i don't think it could be done anymore. hop the bus up Oakland Park to Solid Surf and skate til dark. good memories.
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Green Room
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On 10/2/2002 h0dad
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Hedge barrels...thats the green room on land.
h0dad kicks his tanker hard then assumes the position, drop knee, five on the nose with hands out front to pierce the air.
The fat vegetable axe, 10 olympic swimming pools of leaves closes out behind as he's blown out of the barrel.
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green room
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On 10/1/2002
erik
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Slick I think the green room is a reference to getting tubed when you are surfing because you are surrounded by green water, hence you are in a green room.
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Green Room
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On 10/1/2002 lbk
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The "Green Room" is in your head.
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its not a pool, nor a ditch so i post it here
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On 9/30/2002 leo
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best surfing feeling i experienced was on a velodrome(sp.?) u can carve up and down the "wave"
leo
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get the kids started
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On 9/30/2002 Mark
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I went to visit a friend over the weekend, someone I hadn't seen in years.
He lives with his girlfriend in an airplane hangar, she has three kids aged
11, 14, and 17. I had my 57" longboard with me, because I rarely go anywhere
without bringing a board. As soon as I saw the smooth floor of the hangar,
I went to get my board from the car. I carved around the hangar, crouching
low to go under plane wings, and just goofing.
Then the kids saw my board. Brandon (11) begged me to stay for dinner, so he
could ride it as long as possible. Tiffany (14) wanted lessons and tips, and
demanded getting her turn (Brandon was hogging it). Neither of these kids has
a shortboard (yet), and now both want a long and a short setup. They were
having a blast rolling down the driveways and taxiways, and were soon carving
smooth arcs. Both made comments to the effect that the long, heavy board "felt
better" under them than the kickflipper setups they'd tried before.
All it takes is a good setup and an open mind. Two more enthusiasts. I've been
instructed to bring more than one board on my next visit.
Mark Colden
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Surfing, sidewalks and all that jive,,,
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On 9/30/2002
Speedy
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Hello, hello, All! You know, I was looking back at my skating life, and if you count the little bit I've been doing on my little bro's 24" Roller Derby-style banana board, I think I can honestly say I've ridden all the major styles: Old school, new school, VERY old school, dirtboard, longboard... But all in all, longboard and that banana board will forever be my favorite rides.
Skate long. Life fast.
Er...
Yeah.
-Speedy
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then new age
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On 9/30/2002
SLICK
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Im only 15 but i love the older styles of skateing. (you know like the ones in dogtown and the Z-boys) i enjoy all the slides and bank turns but i also am up for the faster version,
What is the green room???
NICE FORUM
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1975 northbrook il
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On 9/30/2002
jordan
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sidewalk surfing were it all began,tic tacs,clickity clack zipping down the sidewalks at probably 5-10 mph watching the freshly cut grass swirling behind me or the trails i left after going through someones sprinkler practicing bertlemans in the driveway with rush or blacksabbath ragging in the backround. those were the days.
now i'm just carving @ 40mph in good old cicinnati at age 37
ncdsa rocks, ilb rocks, longboarding rocks!!!
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FL sidewalk surfing...
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On 9/30/2002 patio
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there's sidewalks to surf at almost any beach...
I could do without the noise and jet fuel drippings of airport-side!
on our SkateTour in January, it'll be extra sweet to see bikinis...especially for the far north doods.
it's always strange going home to Delray Bch at Christmas, and after seeing nothing but overcoats and all up here, the first bikini I see always makes my brain think "stripper", but no, they just walk around like that ALL THE TIME. and it's worth getting sand in your bearings.
imho
p
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Florida Sidewalk Surfing
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On 9/30/2002
Johnny B
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A Snowbird Sidewalk Surfing Cruise (as mentioned in Brady's previous post)
is a lot more appealing to the PA crew than a Snowbird Slalom Thingie.
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Florida Sidewalk Surfing
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On 9/29/2002
Brady
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When I was a wee tad living under pop`s roof, we didn`t have any sidewalks so as we always skated in the street. Luckily it was a dead end street we lived on so cars weren`t a problem.
Now jump back to the future and we have sidewalks everywhere. There`s one in particular that`s south of Ft Laud Airport and has rolling hills going up and down and winding back and forth too. It`s the berm on the south side of the airport turned into a pedestrian park. Nicely landscaped with bushes that hang over in spots that are great for that dip into the green room.
And then there`s the broadwalk at Ft Laud beach. Especially great during spring break :-)
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Florida Sidewalk Surfing
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On 9/29/2002 Sponge Bob
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Ya know, Florida's sidewalk surfing is the real thing. The sidewalks are just like the surf, F-L-A -T!
Yadayaddayyaadddaa
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Commute On A Longboard
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On 9/29/2002
psYch0Lloyd
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ash: There's been a funny sign at the Belmont Army Surplus Skate Shop which is located right at the same level and beside the Belmont "L" stop (read: elevated train) that says: "If you were skateboading, you'd be at home by now!" It always seemed funny to me because anybody who skateboards would feel at home whenever they were on one...
Alan Sidlo
khrt
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escorting the little fella
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On 9/29/2002
Datu Ramel
wrote in from
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Simple pleasure is accompanying my second grader to school. It's four blocks, two crossing guards, one underpass, a blind corner, and clickety clack. My boy rides a 20 inch bike, I follow him on my 46 or 57 incher with his backpack in my left hand. Each time I drop him off at school, yet another student pops his/her eyes out upon seeing the longboard. Most have never seen one; they've heard about them. The best part is that all the young moms dropping off their kids are very curious. They know ollie boards because their sons and neighbors have them. But the ladies can't figure out why a dad has a grown-up (big and long) slightly flexible plaything.
The ride home is in the street, and the crossing guards love putting up that eight-sided thing so I can pump through the intersection.
I hope I live long enough for my son to tow me behind his bike.
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sidewalk surfing
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On 9/28/2002
ash
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I live about 4 doors down from PD's Hot Shop in Vancouver, I hadn't skated for years when I saw a sign out front of Skull Skates that said "Commute On A Longboard." I thought that was pretty funny, then I went home,got my board out and skated down to the beach. Man, I forgot how good it feels to be Rad. That day was the beginning of my awakening. I realised I can do what ever I want so I bought a big 'ol cruiser. The freedom of riding my skateboard and my bike changed the way I saw life. I work for myself as a designer so nobody really tells me what to do. Last week I gave myself a mohawk... TOTAL RADNESS
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yelling "car"...
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On 9/28/2002 sk8nwolf
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I didn't sk8 in the 60's or anything like that, but if you've got some really good friends (or an over protective spouse), you'll always have someone to yell car.
When I was younger (in the 80's, heehee), I didn't know it was called sidwalk surfing...but it was such great fun to surf with friends and neighbors. I skate solo right now, and I'm trying to remember all that I've forgotten over the non-skating years, but surfing in the streets is still so much fun.
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