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Purple Skunk is great - I buy from them as well...they definitely cater to the longboard crowd.
Check out this other skate thread
BTW, if you're not already skating, start off on flat pavement or something slightly uphill. Also, learn to footbrake.
joe...
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Originally posted by Armon
Quick question about binding angles.. I've gotten used to riding 15/0. Do I need to "ease" myself into the more extreme forward angles, or should i just go for it and see what happens?
Ease into it. Start by bringing your back up to get it more in line with the front - most people ride with a 0-10 degree split between F/R...all depends on what feels comfy to you. Take a few runs, then start bumping them together in 3-6 degree increments. Don't go higher than 45 in front with softboots - you won't have enough lateral support. When you want to make that next increment beyond 45, you'll want to go to hardboots and the transition will be pretty seamless. (btw, you can switch to hardboots earlier, of course).
I'm serious about the skateboard thing - borrow anyone's deck (typical freestyle board or whatever) and get a feel for riding higher angles. Start off slow, on flat or slightly uphill smooth asphalt...wristguards are a good idea.
joe...
(hmm, looks like Baka and I are typing at the same time :D)
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Originally posted by Armon
... I guess the hardest part will be waiting until winter to try it....
Actually, you can start now - on asphalt. Poke around on NCDSA, particularly in the "slalom" and "pumping" forums. You'll also find several threads here on longboard skateboarding. It's a great way to train offseason - when winter rolls around, you'll be dialed in...
joe...
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Originally posted by The Snowboard Journalist
If there's enough reply, we'll deliver the best we can. -jf
Y'know, if I were publishing a food magazine, I don't think I'd wait until enough readers mentioned rice noodles before running a piece on Vietnamese food. After all, it's a pretty small country...
The world of alpine riders seems to be filled with very dedicated people who have a strong sense of community, are often way into the technical nuances of gear and setup, and for the most part are pretty rabid about riding. We seem to draw a fair number of stares and questions on the hill and chair. We welcome new carvers with encouragement and a healthy vibe. Oddly enough, given the higher cost of alpine gear and an average rider age somewhere above 30, we're probably in the same demographic of those more likely to pony up $40 for a yearly magazine. Hmm, perhaps there's a story or two in there somewhere...
Steaming hot bowl of pho, anyone? :D
joe...
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Originally posted by bobdea
just bought some of the absinthe
That certainly has some friendly benefits, doesn't it? Particularly the part about renal failure, convulsions, and "involuntary evacuations"...
I raise my Fierce Grape bottle to Coldrider...
joe...
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Originally posted by Randy S.
Joe,
Clearly you are bored and suffering snow withdrawal. I have two suggestions.
1) Quick, its not too late to sign up for Carve & Surf camp and go with me to Chile on August 20.
2) Go put something cool on TahoeCarvers. The site's been practically asleep all summer.
Randy
No time for either of those until the wind dies... :D
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Early morning groom....zzzz....both front paws on the snow...zzzzz....mmmm, tuna....zzzz...
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Originally posted by Maciek
I will develope my pictures...
Yeah, I remember film... :D
Originally posted by Tommy DJOECARVE: Great avatar! :)
Thanks - I created it for the TahoeCarvers "business cards" for the last couple seasons. I need to come up with something new this year, so I'm reclaiming it for personal use... :D
joe...
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Originally posted by Baka Dasai
When I skate a lot I get pain in the ball of my left (front) foot. It doesn't hurt while skating, only while walking, and it lasts for about a week.
It might be because I wear shoes with a very thin and flexible sole when skating. I like the barefoot-like feel, but the lack of cushioning could be a problem.
Hah - I've got that going on right now, in my back foot from kicking up to speed. If I put just enough pressure down to get traction (ie, don't stomp hard), I avoid it...
joe...
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Originally posted by mirror70
Don't forget such mundane cars as the Jaguar XKE and muscular Triumph TR6. What about the 3rd Gen RX7?
Among the more exotic cars, what about the purposeful 962? The absolutely incredible D-type? 355? 250GT California? 288GTO? Pretty much anything penned by Pinninfarina?
I'm with ya on the 355 over the 360, but I've been partial to the 250SWB over the CA Spyder; 308GT4 over th other 308-bodied cars. Oh wait, forget all those - Miura SV...
C-types. Mmmm...
Love the 3rd gen RX7, but there's just something about a 1st-gen with a ported 13B.
Totally pedestrian, and admittedly a GTO-clone, but I get weak in the knees for a nice Datsun 240.
Butt ugly, but a slot car: ever driven an '88/'89 Mazda 323 GTX? You just gotta love anything with forced induction and a switch on the dash for locking the diffs.
joe...
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Originally posted by NateW
I didn't realize the 9-2x was based on the Subaru. That's pretty cool. I'm suddenly interested.
Did Saab ever make an AWD coupe? I heard they did, but haven't been able to find anything about them.
The E30M3 is, in my estimation, the most beautiful car ever made. I have a 325iX (AWD version of the regular 3-series from the same era) and have long been daydreaming about putting the M3's fenders and quarter panels on it.
227hp from 2.0 liters is amazing. My car's 2.5 liters only put out 165 or something like that... under 170 for sure. How much boost does the WRX have? How high is the redline?
How about 271 from a 2.0 liter in the Mistu Evo (more coming in the MR) or 300 from a 2.5 liter in the Subie STi?
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Originally posted by Jeffrey Day
Nice choice it carving utensiles! I'm so jonesn' for a WRX! I had an old C'dale R400 that I miss! And I also have a Renntiger 158SL of the same year! And bombers...they rock!
The only good thing about the Saabaru is that it is available with a sunroof, leather seating & heated ass warmer! I'm hoping that the 05 Subaru WRX wagon will have the same options!
Notice the Saabaru does not have integrated roof rack rails...ick.
If I had silly money, I'd do the following: buy a WRX wag and an STi sedan, swap bits as needed to give me an STi wag, then sell off the now-WRX-with-park-bench-wing sedan...
joe...
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Originally posted by Baka Dasai
Read <a href="http://www.geocities.com/sk8sanjose/sliding.html">this</a>.
Hasn't done me much good - I still can't slide, but I haven't tried much after one of my earlier attempts ended with a highside.
Highside...opposite of fun. Ow. But watching a good slider is very cool.
I've been hesitant to pursue sliding...seems like it reinforces a bad habit of looking downhill (across the board) on a traverse, which took forever to break myself of on snow. Pumping, on the other hand, feels an awful lot like really fast hardboot turns...
joe...
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Originally posted by lonerider
I have all of that... but I'm currently using slider gloves (no back bracing) instead of wrist guards... should I wear guards as well/instead?
Uh, no - slider gloves are way better, I think...I should switch to them as well.
For a full gear setup (thanks to the awesome people at
Purple Skunk who let you demo pretty much everything before buying (decks, trucks, wheels, bearings). I'm riding 70mm ABEC11 GRIPPINS (81a) which are center cored and supposedly a cross between the flashback and the gumball in feel (and slidable at 81a I'm told). I'm parroting exactly what I was told... but I did try all of the wheel out, including the Avilas on the 44" Fibreflex pintail like you joe. The Avilas was amazingly smooth over rough terrain and grippy... but I felt they would be less versatile. I have180 Randalls with Khiro Blue and Red Bushing. The people are Purple Skunk set it up for me - I there more than one way to setup the Randalls?
So yea, I'm just working up getting up my edge pressure on the turns so I can make a well 180 in the street. Trying to do a drop knee heelside turn withOUT grabbing the rail and pulling the board up.
Sounds like you're riding deeper into turns than I am, actually...probably way closer to the pavement than me :D
Purple Skunk rocks.
joe...
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Sounds a lot like the fast sneaking, tiptoe motion developed by Warner Bros animators in the '30s, where they needed a lot of motion in a character who was travelling a short distance. :D
joe...
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Originally posted by NateW
Joecarve, how do the Randals compare to the Seismics? I have Seismics on two boards and am thinking about trying Randals just for grins.
Far better comparisons than mine on ncdsa of course, but nevertheless: I had the Randals first and still really like them. The Seismics are probably more stable for an equivalent level of looseness, but the Randals are easier to adjust. I think the Randals soak up vibrations a bit more through the bushing. Seismics are silent in turning (no squeak like you sometimes get through traditional trucks), but they are a bit louder going over uneven pavement.
Definitely worth having just for grins. Note that you mount them with the kingpins facing out...if you mount them the normal way, they turn the opposite direction in which you lean (generally undesirable).
When you order them, also get yellow Stimulator and Indy bushings to replace the stock Randall bushings, which should be thrown away. Set them up this way , which is basically following original suggestions from PSR, I believe. Huge difference. I also use stainless steel fender washers in place of the Randall bushing cups, which also should be tossed (they cut into the bushing).
While I'm at it: I've had 3 sets of wheels - 70mm/75a Abec11 Flashbacks, 76mm/75a Abec11 Gumballs, and 75a 3dm Avalons. The Gumballs will roll over just about anything with ease, but take longer to spool up...I think I prefer the Flashbacks for kicking around, but there's extra safety in the Gumballs for hills. I really like the Avalons, though they're better suited for smooth pavement. I've ridden 3dm Avilas on a 44" FibreFlex Pintail - absolutely huge wheels, but kinda cool on a big board...also happier on smooth pavement, I think.
joe...
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Originally posted by lonerider
I was actually a rollerblader in my youth (90s).
Joe, so where do you ride in SJ? Any really really mellow wide roads? I just got a loaded vanguard and am puttering around my apartment parking lot and the hill near my house.
It's like relearning how to snowboard as even the slightest pitches seem crazy fast to me. I think the lack of footstraps and extreme negative of falling have contributed to this lack of confidence.
I'm going to try Canada road on Sunday (closed to cars) as it looks good.
I mostly kick around on flat streets either downtown at lunch (where it's illegal to skateboard, btw - it's actually a crime) or in open parking lots whenever I find one that's nice and smooth. For downhill, there's a residential street near my house in SW SJ that's the Hole-N-Wall run of downhill skateboarding: just steep enough to get some decent turns in, but mellow enough to kick your way back up...about a quarter-mile in length. I do some pre-season training there in the fall.
Get a helmet and wrist guards as a bare minimum for safety...elbow and knee pads are a really good idea as well. Start skating on something that's dead flat or slightly uphill. It's definitely dicey at first, but keep at it and it will become second nature pretty quickly.
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My parents wouldn't let me have a skateboard in 7th grade ("you'll kill yourself"), so I was always begging rides on my friend's Hang Ten. Dear god, that thing was squirelly - loosen the trucks enough to make tight turns and speed wobbles arrived alarming early. Aim for the curb and tuck-and-roll in the grass, or try to run off the speed with Superman giant strides? Tough call.
Now look what I keep in the trunk of my car, always ready ride. Way, way better than anything I ever set foot on in the '70s...so smooth and stable. And I can even footbrake now. Don't tell my parents.
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Originally posted by mirror70
This also reminds me of how Audi was nearly driven out of business in North America due to piece done by 60 Minutes regarding a couple of "unintended acceleration" incidents in which the drivers were simply pushing the wrong pedals. 60 Minutes, of course, said that the car were clearly mechanically flawed and the throttles were sticking. The courts and NHTSA sided with Audi saying that it was 100% driver error, but by then the damage had already been done.
That was a beautiful piece of "journalism" wasn't? Easily disproved by any teenager who'd ever done a brake-torque.
The slight upside to that whole mess was that you could get a used Audi 5000 for fraction of its value...a friend of mine bought a full-tilt one with low miles for $4500 the next year.
joe...
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Originally posted by Jack Michaud
That's wild. What do "normal" foil-boarders use for bindings?
There's a few incarnations of this: http://www.neilprydemaui.com/category.php?id=8. I can't decide which scares me the most...
joe...
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Good luck straddling any junk in the road...you'll need a lane change to get around a Coke can...
joe...
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Originally posted by Jack Michaud
I would go for option b first, then I would put the hardboots on the Axis.
Also, start with your binding angles the same as you currently ride in softboots. After a couple runs, start bumping the rear up in 3-degree increments until you're within 0-10 degrees of the front boot (whatever feels comfy - different for everyone). Then bump front and rear together in 3-degree increments until you get the front over 45-50 or so...then switch to the Axis...
joe...
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Ok, I'm gettin' there, even using the longer wheelbase settings on the 38 (I'm slightly stubborn). Backing out the kingpin a full turn made a big difference. I've got more drive on heelsides at the moment, I think...
Thanks!
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Sounds like I should at least use the inside mounting holes on my 38 to shorten the wheelbase a bit. This is a pretty flexy deck for me (I'm 165lb). I'll probably buy a slalom deck at some point, but I wanted to get the technique figured out so I can make a better choice on stiffness...not just the usual buy-a-Black-Hill approach...
Great tip on the foam tape - my front foot tends to creep forward, so a toestop would be handy.
I think I'm not unweighting enough and/or starting it late in the transition. With the arm swinging, should this be primarily along the axis of the deck, or more along an axis perpendicular to the deck (that is, aligned with your body)? Seems like the video clips of slalom I've seen are more along the deck, while Gesmer article describes a motion more vertically aligned.
joe...
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I've got the G&S FibreFlex 38" Pintail, which I love (with R2 and Avalons)...haven't lost my footing yet, though it's definitely narrow. A very light deck, btw...Vanguards are similarly thin and light, though a bit snappier, I believe.
I just ordered the Insect Dragonfly - I had looked at those a while back, and lonerider's mention of it was enough provocation to order one. I've got a set of Seismics and Gumballs on a Gravity 47" that I'll transfer over...
joe...