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My newest setup, which ties into the pumping discussion: Redrilled the rear to back the truck up to have a 23.5" wheelbase, and with the Otang Stimulus wheels its got enough grip to pump, but I can slide it if I need to stop or slow down. Such a fun setup. The only issue with it is that no matter how much I ride the (modified) Bennett, I can't get used to it and enjoy it that much. I really want to get a Radikal front, but $175 is way too much for one truck right now.
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Mincher posted:Don't do it! What's causing you the most grief with ollies? Is it the pop, slide or landing? Are you doing them stationary or moving? Honestly I've tried stationary a few times and I was millimeters from breaking every bone from my fingertips to my shoulders. The board just flies out from under me when I try to pop. When I try to ollie on a grassy surface I do the motion alright but I'm kind of nervous about trying a rolling ollie.
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Jun 1, 2010 17:52
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RobotEmpire posted:Honestly I've tried stationary a few times and I was millimeters from breaking every bone from my fingertips to my shoulders. The board just flies out from under me when I try to pop. I'd be more nervous about doing an ollie standing still because of what you've already experienced: with no forward momentum the board is just going to skate backwards when you try to kick it. Just roll a little bit. You don't have to be flying real fast, you just need some forward motion.
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Jun 1, 2010 17:54
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Bucket Joneses posted:I'd be more nervous about doing an ollie standing still because of what you've already experienced: with no forward momentum the board is just going to skate backwards when you try to kick it. You're right. Me being this retarded about physics is extra ironic because I Just taught my daughter to ride a bicycle yesterday. I had to repeatedly assure her that the faster she went the easier it would be to balance.
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Jun 1, 2010 19:08
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Don't give up Robot. You'll get more comfortable on the small board with time. Enjoy yourself, tricks are just the icing on our ridiculously sweet cake.
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Jun 1, 2010 20:07
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RobotEmpire posted:Honestly I've tried stationary a few times and I was millimeters from breaking every bone from my fingertips to my shoulders. The board just flies out from under me when I try to pop. If you're slipping out, remember this: never let your center of balance go outside the bolts of your trucks. If you can do that you'll never slip out again, but that's easier said than done I know. Unfortunately you're going to have to be able to do that through feel since it's way more difficult to do an ollie if you're staring at your board the whole time.
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Jun 1, 2010 20:59
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I agree with previous posters that it's best to learn while rolling forward but I think sometimes it is easy to forget how challenging learning the movements of the ollie can be. Learning how it works while rolling might be a tall order at first... If you are just trying to learn how to pop the ollie it might not be a bad idea to do it on grass or carpet so as to minimize the board shooting out. But once you get it popping you need to get on the concrete ASAP.
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:I agree with previous posters that it's best to learn while rolling forward but I think sometimes it is easy to forget how challenging learning the movements of the ollie can be. Learning how it works while rolling might be a tall order at first... Yeah I try mostly on grass just to get the motion but without someone to watch and critique it's kind of hard to troubleshoot my technique. I'm gonna keep the short deck but it'll be a weekend thing. Longboard gets a daily workout.
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Jun 2, 2010 00:42
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Ollies are, like everything in skating, muscle memory. It'll just take you a month of solid skating until you can do them with any sort of competence and maybe five more months until you're able to rely on them to get you up and over things with any sort of regularity. Keep skating. I'm building a second deck so I can have an extra around when friends visit without a deck. Nothing sucks worse than having to share a loving skateboard.
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RobotEmpire posted:Yeah I try mostly on grass just to get the motion but without someone to watch and critique it's kind of hard to troubleshoot my technique. I'm gonna keep the short deck but it'll be a weekend thing. Longboard gets a daily workout. This guy has a youtube channel dedicated to teaching you skate tricks. He's not the most radical aggro dude but he seems to have the most thorough and detailed explanation of tons tricks in one place. How to ollie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTp5_jSPJE4 You might start trying to mess with shuv-its too: http://www.youtube.com/user/aronl#p/a/776569A68D8B5A43/1/DnCJStZaO8Q Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/aronl#p/a UFOTacoMan fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jun 2, 2010 |
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Wow, the bouncing the tail off the ground thing I just got from that dude's video is pretty illuminating actually. Also, Bucket, I feel pretty loving pro for having two skateboards.
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RobotEmpire posted:Also, Bucket, I feel pretty loving pro for having two skateboards. I have two sets of trucks and four sets of wheels that I don't use anymore just sitting in my closet  I would give out all that stuff for free but no one ever asks and all my friends have their own setups.
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Speaking of ollie's, my friend took this photo of me last weekend. Hope you stick with it RobotEmpire! Click here for the full 1019x676 image.
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Sweet Photo!Bucket Joneses posted:I'm just going to buy a Flip and put it on a gorilla pod. When you're skating by yourself you can just set up a camera at a spot and skate without bothering it. Then you cut down the footage later and look at what looked good and what looked Totally Whack. I actually have a Flip and a little tripod. Thanks to you I set it up to record my self on my new little quarter in my driveway. Upon viewing the footage I've learned I need to stop skating it like a pussy and start skating it like a man who knows what he is doing. So thanks for the advice. It's all about style.
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Sirkus posted:Speaking of ollie's, my friend took this photo of me last weekend. Hope you stick with it RobotEmpire! Aw yeah! That's some beautiful smooth road you got there, most of the streets round here are like the surface of the moon.
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Since I'm rapidly running out of snow, I thought I'd give skateboarding another chance. How is this poo poo this hard? Seriously. I went to my local park for like 30 seconds today (it's really nice: http://www.denverskatepark.com/edwards.html) and it was unbelievably humbling. A few weeks ago I was spinning on to handrails and hucking myself over 40" jumps, and now I can barely ollie - and sure as poo poo can't ride those pools.
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Obscuritatem posted:Aw yeah! I wish roads were that smooth everywhere in québec 
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Marginal Way is going to be so sick when this poo poo is done. Hello summer. Also, this new mural is loving Bad rear end:  SKATING
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Horizontal Tree posted:My newest setup, which ties into the pumping discussion: What's the matter with the Bennett? My two complaints would be that a) the kingping nut is too close to the ground and b) that truck EATS bushings! My (magnificent) Sabres start to show cracks after one month of usage! Also, what kind of board is that? Custom Pulse?
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Was down in Venice yesterday so I made this pano with my phone. Click here for the full 1024x191 image.
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:This guy has a youtube channel dedicated to teaching you skate tricks. He's not the most radical aggro dude but he seems to have the most thorough and detailed explanation of tons tricks in one place. Man, I don't know why I didn't watch his video on ollies. I've watched pretty much all of his advanced trick videos and sat there shaking my head. Snapping the tail down and making the board bounce is loving eye opening; it explains why the few ollies I've popped decently well and rolled from have felt like complete flukes and why I spend so much time barely leaving the ground. Thanks for this. Snap Your Fingers posted:Seriously. I went to my local park for like 30 seconds today (it's really nice: http://www.denverskatepark.com/edwards.html) and it was unbelievably humbling. Today I intentionally did a manual without falling over for about a meter. It was my first ever. How the poo poo do people ollie or flip into these, poo poo is crazy 
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Whalley posted:Today I intentionally did a manual without falling over for about a meter. It was my first ever. How the poo poo do people ollie or flip into these, poo poo is crazy Good way to practice being able to ollie into a manual is to just run up, jump on your deck and land doing a manual. That's how I learned ollie > nose manuals.
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Bucket Joneses posted:Marginal Way is going to be so sick when this poo poo is done. Hello summer.
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maxmars posted:What's the matter with the Bennett? My two complaints would be that a) the kingping nut is too close to the ground and b) that truck EATS bushings! My (magnificent) Sabres start to show cracks after one month of usage! The deck is a Fullbag Louis Ricard slalom pro model, with the rear truck redrilled all the way to the tail. I don't like the feel of the Bennett, its got a little too much dive and the response isn't as "direct" as I'd like (like with a reverse-kingpin truck) I've got a single Sabre bushing in that picture, just stuck in an 88a barrel to tighten the rear a bit from the 81a Venom Eliminators I had in there before. Such a fun setup, for anything but sliding
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Sirkus posted:Speaking of ollie's, my friend took this photo of me last weekend. Hope you stick with it RobotEmpire! This photo rocks, threw it into my wallpaper rotation.
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maxmars posted:What's the matter with the Bennett? My two complaints would be that a) the kingping nut is too close to the ground and b) that truck EATS bushings! My (magnificent) Sabres start to show cracks after one month of usage! Is it chewing it up from the inside out? I believe there's a little trick involving putting a plastic tube of sorts around the kingpin, if you're having the problem I think you are
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Where's a good reliable cheap online place to get a decent pair of skate shoes? I'm burning through my stock of adidas pretty quickly.
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RobotEmpire posted:Where's a good reliable cheap online place to get a decent pair of skate shoes? I'm burning through my stock of adidas pretty quickly. Nordstrom Rack has cheap skate shoes all the time. It's a gold mine of 30 dollar shoes. Edit: OH ONLINE! I dunno, maybe zappos?
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Pretty good prices here: http://www.6pm.com/search/shoes/fil...goLiveDate/desc In other news, I got an Earthwing Superglider today after only having a GFH mini with me at school. Went on a skate around the neighborhood and it felt really good. I used to longboard a lot in highschool and am just picking it up again after four years. I'm so glad I'm back... I love the way skating makes me feel.
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DELETED posted:Is it chewing it up from the inside out? I believe there's a little trick involving putting a plastic tube of sorts around the kingpin, if you're having the problem I think you are Right on the money. The bushing is cracking on the inside. ..Interesting.. Will have to do some tests w/ plastic tubes.
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Horizontal Tree posted:The deck is a Fullbag Louis Ricard slalom pro model, with the rear truck redrilled all the way to the tail. I don't like the feel of the Bennett, its got a little too much dive and the response isn't as "direct" as I'd like (like with a reverse-kingpin truck) I was thinking of trying out a Seismic instead of the Bennett in order to avoid the stuck kingpin issue, but it would probably be even less "direct" (mushier?) than the Bennett itself. What would a good replacement be for the front truck? something very very turny I mean.
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maxmars posted:I was thinking of trying out a Seismic instead of the Bennett in order to avoid the stuck kingpin issue, but it would probably be even less "direct" (mushier?) than the Bennett itself. Seismic have never looked very appealing to me, and from what I know they're more often used as rear trucks. I want to replace my Bennett with a Radikal Dragons Claw, but I can't afford one, they're $175 before shipping and bushings  Reverse-kingpin geometry front should fit my style a bit better than the standard-geo Bennett does, and Radikals are pretty much the cheapest reverse-geo slalom fronts, yet one of the best.
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Eh they're expensive.. I'd need at least to try them out first. Too bad I don't know anyone with a board equipped with them.
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Rode like 5 miles on my longboard yesterday, very relaxing, lots of fun, lots of long smooth stretches of fresh blacktop to carve. But holy gently caress my left heel hurts from pumping so hard for so long. Time to buy new shoes. I know there are a lot of varying opinions on what shoes you can get, but are there any brands to just outright avoid?
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Really tempted to start skating again. I won a limited edition skate 3 deck and think it'd be pretty funny to stick trucks and poo poo on it, grip it up, then go out and trash it. They only made 5 of them.
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RobotEmpire posted:Rode like 5 miles on my longboard yesterday, very relaxing, lots of fun, lots of long smooth stretches of fresh blacktop to carve. But holy gently caress my left heel hurts from pumping so hard for so long. Time to buy new shoes. I know there are a lot of varying opinions on what shoes you can get, but are there any brands to just outright avoid? I can tell you right off to avoid flip flops  I went for a ride testing my new setup for pumping and it was not good while wearing flip flops. However, once I get a Kahuna Big Stick I can ride barefoot for miles if I want 
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DUDE! What part of Marginal is that park being built?!?!?! How did I not know about this?
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It's along the waterfront just at the end of the viaduct. Near the part that rises leading toward the exit onto the West Seattle Bridge.
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RobotEmpire posted:Rode like 5 miles on my longboard yesterday, very relaxing, lots of fun, lots of long smooth stretches of fresh blacktop to carve. But holy gently caress my left heel hurts from pumping so hard for so long. Time to buy new shoes. I know there are a lot of varying opinions on what shoes you can get, but are there any brands to just outright avoid? I would avoid most things canvas, it tears really quickly. Right now I really like the DC's PJ S-LX, Nike 6.0 Mavrk Mid 2's and the Adidas Busenitz Pro.
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