Dude...

If your going to skate hills, you need to learn how to
slide... period.

Then that won't happen. Don't buy one of those flowlab
gimmick shit boards.


--- longboardlounge@yahoogroups.com wrote:
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> From: "PhilipMcmahon"
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> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:47:42 -0000
> From: "PhilipMcmahon" <pmcmahon@...>
> Subject: Re: Need hilly help
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> I have a stock SuperCruiser which I love but today
> the speed wobble
> faceplanted me down the hill at a pretty significant
> speed. It was a
> truly horrible thing to watch. I think I'm off the
> board for a while.
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> Laters.
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> --- In longboardlounge@yahoogroups.com,
> "owenfreeman"
> <OWENFREEMAN@h...> wrote:
> > I've had similar problems with hills. I live in
> Olympia Washington,
> > and my sector nine super cruiser (great for most
> cross country
> > cruising and carving) hasn't really worked for me
> on the steeper
> > hills.
> > So I bought a Flowlab 36" complete. From
> everything I'd read it
> > seemed exactly the board for fluid carving and
> downhill controll,
> > which is something I didn't really have downhill
> on the sector nine.
> >
> > It's crazy fun. And after a couple weeks I
> finally ordered the 42"
> > deck because I just wasn't doing many tricks on
> the 36" and it said
> > it was a little more solid on flatlands.
> > The one thing is that it's nothing really like
> skating traditional
> > trucks. There's no resistance, so the feeling of
> just sliding back
> > and forth accross the ground takes a little
> getting used to.
> >
> > But I've never had a skate that I could controll
> my speed so well
> > on. I've tackled hills I used to break on with my
> foot nonstop, and
> > I can carve the whole thing without touching the
> ground once with my
> > foot.
> >
> > So just my thoughs. It's definitely not the
> cruising flat speed
> > board my sector nine is, but for really cool turns
> and
> > manuverability it's an incredible ride.
> >
> > -Owen
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