Official Rules for the Video Competition
1) 1 minute video: Choose any music and any longboard you want
2) The theme for your video entry is JOURNEY. Show great spots and adventure!
3) NO tricks for this video.
4) IMPORTANT !!!!! NO SHOT SHOULD BE LONGER THAN 6 SECONDS.
We’re getting to work on our entry right away so we need everyone to upload theirs too and send us the link to Contact@LongboardNOW.com
This guide is designed to showcase how to do a Tiger Claw or Flat Top on a Longboard for a regular stance, so if you ride goofy like me you would have to do everything the opposite way.
Begin by standing with your main foot under the screws, towards the middle of your board and your back foot on the tail.
Get your front foot of the board and the weight of your back foot on the tail will make the boards front flip up.
Rotate your back foot to the left as the boards kicking up so the board pops to the right not straight up.
Using your right hand, take hold of the front left edge of your board while you take a step forward with your back foot. (Your front foot is still on the ground)
As the boards in the middle of its rotation, your right hand guides the rest of the 180 while you jump in the air with your back foot.
Line up the board as you finish the revolution and jump on it!
Once your able to pop the board almost to a full 180 using your hang only to track it around, you can move on to a pressure flip. A pressure flip is the same but you kick out the 180 without using your hand and only take one step.
Disdaines sent this video that I personally am in love with. These guys have some good coordination and its really creative. This is what I like to see here! This is a good example of the type of thing we’d like you to send us at contact@longboardnow.com. These guys have a website at http://freebord.com
Part 1 of the “Go Bomb Hills” campaign. Starting off in the Lansing, Michigan area, we will be focused on providing a list of hills that we love to bomb in the day and night. The pictured located at the top of this post is the view from the Haslett Road and Park Lake Road intersection looking in the direction of Burcham Drive.
^ This view is looking down the hill towards the Haslett Road and Park Lake Road intersection. My back is facing towards Burcham Drive and I’m to the right side of Burcham Hills
^ This view is looking at the Burcham Drive and Park Lake Road intersection. To the left of the light, just off of Burcham Drive on the right, is Burcham Hills. I’m facing the direction of the Haslett Road and Park Lake Road intersection, just past the Burcham Drive and Park Lake Road intersection.
^ Burcham Hills is located right by the Burcham Drive and Park Lake Road intersection. It’s between Haslett/Okemos and East Lansing. There are 2 turns before the turn onto Burcham Drive if you were bombing the hill from where I’m taking the picture. My preference is to take a right at the first turn and follow is all the way around Burcham Hills to the right or taking the next left and looping back to the bottom of the hill.
As we look at our life and decide what really matters to us, we find it always boils down to fun, experience, and helping others. That’s the foundation of LongboardNOW.com. Our goal is to promote longboard awareness (that makes it sound like an addiction haha I suppose if an addiction consumes your life, longboarding is certainly mine) and develop the longboarding communities reach as far as it can be spread. We want to give everyone a chance to experience the amazing feeling that we get everyday while surfing the concrete streets with friends. Enough bullshit, get a longboard and hit the street. LongboardNOW.com
LongboardNOW.com promotes the experience of concrete surfing to everyone. Try longboarding yourself and share the feeling with your friends. http://LongboardNOW.com
