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Longboard Bushings For Idiots. Bushings are one of the most important factors in how your longboard feels underneath your feet when your pushing and carving along.

The fact that bushings are one of the cheapest parts of your longboard setup, leaves you no excuse to leave those crappy stock bushings that came with your trucks. I still remember changing my first boards bushing’s for the first time and being amazed at how much better the ride was (I was able to carve!). Experiment with them and try different combos! You can get bushings with different durometers (hardness), different shapes (cone, barrel, stepped) and even different washers (flat, cupped) which will all affect the liveliness of your ride. Bushings all have a perfect point of compression based on how tight you crank down the kingpin nut on your skateboard trucks.

Using flat washers is recommended by a lot of people since it doesn’t mess with the bushings compression level during a turn as much as say a cupped washer. Shape Type Setup. How To Stop On A Longboard. Stopping on a longboard is one of the most crucial steps to becoming a better longboarder.

It may take awhile to learn some of these techniques but it’s well worth it for your safety. Besides who actually likes getting road rash? 1. Air Braking – Standing straight up with your arms out to increase wind resistance and lower your overall speed. Wind braking is a very effective technique to decrease your speed (to about 25-30mph if done properly) and is extremely useful when doing downhill. 2. Footbraking is one of the most effective ways to stop and is fairly easy to learn. 3. Carving is probably one of the first things you’ll learn when first starting to longboard. 4. This is probably one of the worst and most dangerous ways to try and stop when going fast. 5.

Sliding is hands down the most effective way to stop when longboarding and learning how to do it will make you a much better rider. 6.Rolling off the road - Rolling from the road to another surface to cause friction. 7. How to Regrip a Longboard (Loaded Dervish Edition) I decided I wanted to regrip my loaded dervish longboard because I wanted to be unique.

The loaded spray on grip still had lots of life in it but I needed to redirect my stoke someway constructive over my winter break. Here is a step by step tutorial on what I did. First figure out the length and width of your longboard. Some more pictures... - Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community. Longboard Pumping Guide. I thought about writing my own article on how to pump a longboard but there really is no need to with this great article written by the legend Daniel Gesmer.

Propelling yourself with turns (“pumping,” “power-turning,” or “gyrating”) is an extremely subtle technique, based on very precise, balanced, and rhythmical weight shifts. Beginners often overlook the skill involved because it seems almost effortless when done well. Yet power-turning is one of the most difficult techniques you can learn on a skateboard. It’s also one of the best teachers of true style, and probably the finest example of using a skateboard to “skate” in the purest sense of the term — to glide powerfully. Power-turning is sometimes known as gyrating because, when done properly, your body and board gyrate relative to one another – your hips rotate elliptically in one direction, while the skateboard below rotates in the opposite direction. Equipment and minimum speed Stance and posture Weighting and unweighting 1. 2. 3.

Flat washer OK, now what? - Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community. Surf-Rodz Extension Axles - Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community. Toothless: Griptape Instruction. Soda Factory - [313] invader - cf foamcore downhillraceboard - Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community. Pointy nose?

The nose is not as pointy as an bombhills for example and contrary to other foamcores we made a hybride core the main core is out of 2 different foams and on nose + tail it's polycarbonate as some sort of "bumper" and there is no thin, sharp edge on both ends. This is also needful to get it solid there. Construction fibers are completely carbonfiber. no glass in it. . - -- top ------ weave 0/90º HT-biax 45/45 maple veneer 1,4 mm HT-biax 45/45 ------------- core: hybrid.. More? SirKale Slide Slabs - Page 5 - Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community. Fiberglassing pics - Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community. ⓂⓈⓉ MudSlide Gloves+Pucks: available 3/24/09! - Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboarding Community.