All Terrain Longboards add another dimension to the sport of Longboarding, allowing riders to venture off-road onto rougher, bumpier surfaces such as grass, country footpaths, dirt tracks and even gravel. All Terrian Longboards are similar to conventional Longboards. The only main difference is they are fitted with big 100mm wheels to tackle the harsher terrain. […]
Riding Style
Carving Longboards
All board sports involve Carving, especially Longboarding. It’s probably the most used form of skating. Longboard Carving is easy to learn, great fun and very addictive. Once the board’s moving, the Longboarder ‘carves’ executing ‘S’ style movements back and forth. The ‘S’ trajectory keeps up momentum without having to push, which in turn keeps the […]
Cruising Longboards
Longboard Cruising is a fun and effective skating method to explore your local area or country roads, villages, towns and cities you visit. Few moves are required. The technique is simple, ride, relax, observe and enjoy the scenery as you go. No need for high speeds downhill, fancy moves or scary tricks. Just push, ride, […]
Dancing Longboards
Longboard Dancing is the most creative and expressive form of Longboarding substituting aggressive speed, slides and jumps, for visually impressive steps, torso, arm and whole-body movements while cruising and carving, a creative fusion of Dancing and Longboarding. Once novice Longboarders have mastered carving and cruising techniques, they often want to progress onto a more challenging […]
Downhill Longboards
After you learned Longboarding basics, such as balancing, turning and breaking, you mastered carving, cruising, and maybe even some freestyle and dancing. Now it’s time to tackle some hills. For this, you need a downhill Longboard. Downhill Riding Styles Freeriding is downhill Longboarding utilizes carving, drifting, slides, turns, spins and other creative moves. Freeriding is […]
Freeride Longboards
Freeride Longboarding involves skating downhill, regulating the speed with drifts and slides, which are a staple of Freeriding. Freeride is not as aggressive or fast as Downhill Longboarding, where the goal is to ride the hill as fast as possible. Drifts and slides control the skater’s speed, slowing them down or even bringing them to […]
Freestyle Longboards
Freestyle Longboarding involves kicks, jumps, flips, grabs and even grinding, a range of impressive technical stunts often performed on flatland, street obstacles and skateparks. Freestyle is very similar to regular skateboarding. The only real difference is the tricks are performed on longer decks with bigger wheels and allows Longboarding styles to be incorporated such as […]
Pumping Longboards
Forget pushing, cruising, carving and riding downhill. How about ‘Pumping’? ‘Pumping’ is a little-used Longboarding method where the rider generates momentum by swaying their body continuously while keeping his/her feet planted firmly to the deck. The controlled swaying motion generates momentum and keeps the Longboard moving. As a result, it’s possible to travel great distances […]
Trick Longboards
Are you looking for a good Longboard to perform ‘Tricks’ with? We will help you find the ideal deck for tricks with the perfect trucks and wheels to match. However, Longboard ‘Tricks’ is a very broad term the first thing to establish is what kind of Tricks you want to perform. Longboard tricks fall into […]