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Loaded Challenge

Loaded Longboards and Adam Colton asked me to provide a trick for the new Loaded Challenge Series.
In case you don’t know, this is a contest Loaded does. You replicate the tricks in their videos, and then you can win some prizes. Its a cool contest.
Anyway — here is the clip — the No-Comply grab. [...]

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Trick Tip: 360 Board Walk

Relocated from Texas Longboarder
Lately I’ve been into riding my Gravity Mini-Carve around, learning some surf-style walking tricks.
Walking up and down your board, using cross-stepping walks forward and backward, is harder than it looks. It’s also a lot of fun. The longer the board, the better.
I begin this move rolling forward, at a moderate speed, [...]

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new trick for old dawgs

In case any of you crusty old bastards want to learn some newschool-ish trickery (although for the record I was doing this in 1988, so it’s really not that new), click the Mighty Fletcher’s image below –

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360 Layback

Here’s yet another move canibalized from the Texas Longboarder site — the 360 Layback, by Clark Walker.

The 360 Layback is a combination of a frontside Fakie 360 and a Layback.
Clark begins the trick by rolling up the wall in a fakie. As he rolls up the wall, he is on the balls of [...]

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G-Turn

Since the contest the other day, several people have mentioned the G-Turn I did in my run. It was sort of a weak G-Turn, but hey, I was pretty tired by then.
Anyway, here’s yet another move canibalized from the Texas Longboarder site (several years ago when I was younger and fatter) — the G-Turn.

The [...]

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