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Buck Bailing
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On 4/22/2004 C-Money
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i recommend you stay the course with your current strategy. seems to be working, so why mess with success. . .
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Stoping
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On 4/21/2004 Buck
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Hey could anyone give me some tips on stoping cuz i get going really fast and i suck at stoping so i just end up bailing
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these boots were made for braking
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On 4/21/2004
Anthony
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Hey Carl, I remember that race...that was a bitchin' course. I was in the grip of poverty at the time and couldn't afford new shoes so I had to wear old combat boots. GI Joe still gives me sh*t about it. If I remember correctly hte shut down area was like 20 feet or something crazy. I would love to race that hill again.
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Fixing mistake
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On 4/21/2004 Scott S.
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*To be prepard to falll
not
To not be prepard to fall
sorry
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Joesph
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On 4/21/2004
Scott S.
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Hey man remeber me?
We used to email back and forth and talk about our experiences sliding
Tired to email you...about...hmmmmmm.... like 3 or 4 times
must not of gottem
email me dude
it was good chating back in the day
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Sliding and Cliff Coleman
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On 4/21/2004
C-Money
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Cliff Coleman is my hero. He can race, he can ride (fast) downhill, he probably used to ride vert (but he's like 50 now and just chooses not to. . .). And you should see him spin a top and work a yo-yo. The man can do it all, and maintains a Zen-like cool about him the whole time!
The thing about foot braking. And I had to learn in a hurry a the Donner Pass race a couple of years ago, thank God for a couple of guys who I don't remember, maybe Gary Fluitt, who coached me a bit. But that race had NO run-out, and you could smell the rubber melting off of guys's shoes at the bottom. Iruined the bottom of my left Vans Dogtown Skate Hi's. I now alternate feet just to evenly wear down my damn vans!
Carl Kincaid
Knucklehead Racing.
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Loose Or tight And anser to HC
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On 4/21/2004
Scott S.
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I ride tight trucks, when youg et up to speeds around 70 kmph you want your trucks very tight so you don't get speed wobbles.
But when i first started sliding I learned with a flexy board, loose trucks an soft wheels
-Loose trucks helped me turn into my slide with lower speeds
- Soft wheels helped me get my form down proporly.
HC - Im not telling people to hurt themselves when they try 360's. Im telling them not to be prepared to fall, if your always frightened the you will never learn them bud.
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loose or tight trucks
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On 4/21/2004
joseph
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loose conventional trucks are best like indys or trackers. loose is better because when you slide its usually because your turning to fast for your wheels to keep traction (or atleast thats how i think of it).
scott.s if your interested in meeting up with another guy in novia scocia into longboarding e-mail me your e-mail address. a guy who goes by the name sven sven svensen or something lives there and has no one to ride with.
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Lose or tight/
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On 4/21/2004
proehljm
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So whats better... lose or tight trucks? conventional or randal???
why would a lose tuck be better to slide and not a tight one or other way arond??
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silly boy
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On 4/21/2004 nick mildmay
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just incase anyone was wondering (probably not!) i din't bust my kidney through some kind of manic 360 slide twisting as it sound, just bombing a hill too fast and did not realise there was a speed bump round the corner!
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360
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On 4/21/2004 hc
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No need to hurt yourself learning the 360 slide.
I learned the 360 slide by watching the old powell video.
I also learned it on the flat (the slippery floor at vans).
Wear those knee pads.
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heelside
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On 4/21/2004 hc
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Airin, you need to learn it.
Heelside slide allows you to SEE where you are going.
and it's safer than toeside.
(where did cliff say that toeside is easier?)
I believe you mention before that you are experiencing highsides. Put more weight on your support hand(s). Don't try stand up before the slide ends.
BTW, I learn heelside pendulums on the flat with a short board and hard wheels.
and loose and turny trucks are easier to learn on.
hc
www.geocities.com/sk8sanjose/sliding.html
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Heelside slide - is it really the easier one?
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On 4/20/2004
Airin
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Cliff says that that heelside slide is the easier than frontside to execute. But is it the easier of the two to learn, I am wondering?
I find that I am starting to get a little control over my toeside slides even to the point of letting the board start to break free and then reining it back in....all this at pretty moderate speeds at this point mind you.
But on the heelside slides...well they can't really be called slides yet as I am not getting the wheels to break hardly at all.
Toeside feels fluid and surf-like but I just haven't found the key that unlocks the heelside slide. Any tips from you experience longboard sliders out there?
(BTW, I am riding a Landy Drop Carve with 85a Powell Bombers.)
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Where I Live
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On 4/20/2004 Scott S.
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Yo man!
Thats bam how you live on East coast canada,I live in Halifax NOva Scotia maybe someday in the summer you can come down and ride with me and some of the other sliders down here.
My quick advice fro the 360....Just throw yourself forward and be ready to fall the first few times! It will come sooner then later!
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sliding re mike
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On 4/20/2004 nick mildmay
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go to the surface motion page here is a link to the sliding page:
http://www.surfacemotion.com/slidearc/slidarc.html
lots of advise on geting you board to break into slides and 360 etc. have not got it all locked down at the moment as i am just learning to slide, but had to hang my board up till june after tearing my kidney last month
what do the seasoned geezers think of the surface motion's advice on sliding?
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Scott S
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On 4/20/2004
Mike Manning
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Scott you say you're from eastern canada, whereabouts? IM in saint john NB myself. I always read these forums but it's funny because a lot of people in NCDSA seem to be in cali.
cool to see a fellow east coaster
I have a question to whoever would know, how do you go into the 2nd half of a 360 slide if you're going heelside? It seems so weird to think about going into a slide where your head and hands are facing forward down the hill, and you're pulling your skate behind you with your toes only. Also I have difficulty actually breaking into the 2nd half. I've been trying to use momentum to get me there but it's so weird.
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sliding and footbraking
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On 4/19/2004 Duane
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I would venture to guess that anyone who has sufficient board control to bust stand-up slides at will, can and would use footbraking at will also. One thing you will find, is that as you practice the one-foot riding (with control) needed to start to footbrake, your overall balance will improve as well. That counts for a lot when kicking off at the start, with slow turning trucks it is entirely too easy to lose your balance (embarassingly) at the start line. Once the fottbraking gets good, you will be able to steer around objects while continuing to footbrake. Especially effective for getting around cars. I do exactly what Anthony says, sliding my foot back to the right rear wheel, to the extent that I may wear a hole through the side of the shoe before too long.
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footbraking
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On 4/19/2004
Anthony
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Living in the city and racing stand-up has made footbraking a most important move in my bag of tricks. I always teach people to practice cruising down a soft hill standing on one foot while holding the other foot out. Good balance on one foot is the key.
One thing I do which really works well for tight shut-downs is to place your foot on the ground in a typical footbrake then slide it back flush against the wheel.
Putting pressure on your heel and the bottom of your foot at the same time will slow you down pretty quickly. You can also kick it out into a side slide.
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Gravity cliff slider wheels
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On 4/19/2004 Ade
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I've been riding these wheels for a couple of months in UK on a 40" board, doing a fare bit of sliding, (Pendulum, Coleman, Front side two handed plants) they work well, but have completely flatted out. I like the size, but thought they would have lasted a little longer. Anyone else have this problem? Any other suggestions for something more durable?
Cheers Ade
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Slide Set Up
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On 4/19/2004 Scott S.
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Joesph took the words right out of my mouth except I ride with sergio yuppies 99a wheels
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Heel brake?
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On 4/19/2004
Airin
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I know that most of you probably foot brake by starting with the ball of your foot and then gently applying pressure with the rest of the foot. My skatebuddy swears by his 'heel brake'. He starts with pressure on his heel as he holds his leg fairly straight and then he starts to place the rest of his foot on the pavement. He is pretty excited about this method as a reliable high speed stop.
Anyone else had experience with this method of stopping? Pros and cons as you see it?
thanks
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silversurfer
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On 4/18/2004
joseph
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set up - a gravity brad edwards 40 ich model would be perfect with bones bombers and indy or tracker trucks. the board is perfect for sliding! i would get the bones wheels for sliding as they are smooth riding but slide smoothley and last ages.
gloves are easy enough to make yourself but bozi boards make gloves.
dvd-gravity's flow
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slider gloves
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On 4/18/2004 herbn
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my new slider gloves,i'm using deer skin gloves for a change, a couple bucks more,better fit , more comfortable,ahhh. I decided to break up the slider pad surfaces int smaller sections, but on a test slide i went through some rough stuff by accident(that's the real test, really)and a couple sections tore off. I enlarged that part for more points of attachment. I drilled a couple sections parallel to the sliding surface and laced the uhmw pieces to each other, this keeps the glove/sliding surface flexible but increases the strength of attachment.BY the way i use uhmw for slider pieces and i really don't think there's a good glue, i lace the pieces on through countersunk holes in the slider pieces and i punch holes through the gloves, with a hollow punch. I made the punch too. This is the first time i have a slider piece on the thumb too.
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Wheels for Sliding
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On 4/18/2004 silversurfer
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I want to learn bertleman/coleman slides. Please recommend wheels that would be good for a beginer slider. Also, what set ups (deck, trucks, wheels, bearings, spacers, ect.) do you guys use for sliding? Is there anything else I need for sliding? Maybe someone can recommend some gloves and/or dvd's that could be usefull. Any suggestions would be helpfull.
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3dm and sliding...
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On 4/17/2004
Miko
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Thanks Joe... I have a large bag of Abec11, Krypto and Exkate wheels - I just like to get more mileage out of my retired slalom wheels, cause I usually have a large pile of them. I trim the 3dm's with a file on the hill, and sometimes radius the edges as well. I also really like the way they wear with their semi center-set hub.
No problems with the fakie return either... sometimes I will stand up, but I just like everything to happen smoothly at speed.
You know... I forgot to thank you for the Bear video you sent along with my Tracer sliding gloves! Great footage that I've showed to quite a few people. Thank you very much. The Tracers are awesome gloves as well.
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