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yasgur99

yasgur99

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I'm looking to start longboarding

I want something where I can ride around my neighborhood and do some slides too.

I'm not sure what to get

My price range is 200 max and I'd like that 200 to include trucks and wheels

I'm 5'9" and 105lbs

Thanks
 
Fist off gain some pounds you featherweight... Second off get a Kracked Skulls longboard.
 
this or churchill mfg with randal trucks. Get a 82a to 78a duro. Sticky wheels help you dump speed in slides. I also recommend getting a street deck later on to diversify your skating.
 
get a cruzer board, something you can ollie and 180 but still cruise at decent speeds and slide

sparknotes

skateboard = longboard + cruiser board
 
I would recommend the kray for you but they are on back order. Its the shortest freeride deck they have with a drop through and drop down to keep your feet locked in better. If you don't like the drop through mount you can always mount them on the bottom. Churchill is different than the last time I ordered from them. They use to give you a whole board set up.
 
Get yourself a Landyachtz Drop Carve, with Caliber 50s and 81a Flashbacks. Or if you find another deck, go for it. The drop carve isn't stand-out, but it's solid. Just don't get a sector 9 or loaded, and learn how to spellcheck your titles.
 
The tomahawk is good but you are going to need to shop around to find it for $200. Get the 38 with the owl on it if you decide to go that way.
 
Tomahawk's a stiff, topdownt, freeride board. Will not be the best for cruising around. Will be good for slides.
 
Get a fucking clue. The only good loaded board is the tesseract, and the chubby if you're rich as fuck. Everything else is overpriced shit. I bet you ride 86a stims too.
 
thats not sticky haha 76a is sticky, and it goes 78a to 82a, most longboard wheels don't go above 86a anyways.
 
I ride a Sector 9, but I would recommend an Original or a Loaded. Both are pretty expensive but make amazing products.
 
to me I definitely dump enough speed with that duro range. I have 84a mini zombie hawgs and those things are straight ice. Right now I have abec11 freerides in 81a with classic thane and I dump speed pretty good with those. I had 78a arbor wheels and those were as sticky as I personally wanted.
 
I just started longboarding this past summer and I went with an Earthwing Supermodel. Solid board, great for beginners, but my setup ended up being around $260ish when all said was done, but that was with buying all the parts seperate. You could always get the complete for just under $200
 
You'll be able to slide any of the pintails by original. They're fun to cruise on also but if you plan to bomb down any hills then get the one of the apexes. They excel at everything but you won't have such fun trucks or be able to do slides as easily as the pintails. The pintails are pretty cheap too which is a bonus
 
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Get your S10's out of your ass and buy a scooter. We don't want you. Also, I'm not sure why Sam suggested the Arbiter KT, maybe it's cause he and his friends are all sponsored by Original? All of you suggesting Loaded and Original need to realize that just because their marketing can make the panties of any 12 year old kook drop to the ground, their boards are still utter shit, quality and concept-wise. The Baffle is their only half-decent board. The Arbiter is as flat as a 2x4 (no concave) and the apexes are just uncomfortable and skinny as fuck, which doesn't help if you're trying to do any slides. In terms of Loaded, the Tesseract and Chubby are great boards, but they cost more than most completes for just the deck. Everything else they have is shit. OP, go onto the USA Longboard B/S/T on Facebook and browse for cheap setups that work for you. Don't listen to Original and Loaded fanboys.
 
^ forcillo knows whats up. I have s10's. don't expect to go above 15mph or even try a slide. Get yourself a bustin sportster. the deck is 130 ish, then get 82a busting swifts. they're quiet, roll well, and slide amazing. Then get your preference trucks. I'd say cronins, but thats pushing your budget. The sportster is hideously low. Like its effortless to push with. The downside to this is every other board will feel tall. And with this setup, once you decide that you want to slide (which eventually everyone wants to slide), you'll already have a great setup for that too! i see so many people get a cruising setup because they don't want to slide, fall i love with longboarding, then have to get another board. thats what i did, and let me tell you, its much easier to just get the sliding board first. you can slide and cruise and go fast on a freeride oriented board, but on a cruising oriented board, you can only cruise. hope that helps!
 
Actually s10's are easier to slide cause they dive so much so it's easy to whip it out on 180s and 360s and such, but yeah get a freeride board for sure, rayne makes some good stuff, soda factory does too, and if you're looking for advice and cheap setups go ask around on silverfish
 
Just because s10s help you break free, doesn't mean they're good trucks. That's like saying that tech slide wheels are the best for free riding because they break free really easy. Your logic is flawed on that. Get Caliber, Gunmetal, or Cronins. Paris v2 if you like cruising. Fuck Randal, Paris v1, bear, original, and Sabre.
 
god you're a fucking idiot. the kid isn't looking for the highest performing board in the world. he's looking to get into the sport and i'm just offering him some advice. original boards/trucks are extremely easy to learn slides on. they are also really fun to just cruise around on. i didn't say that he should get a pintail EXCLUSIVELY FOR SLIDING. and like i already said, they aren't great downhill, BUT OP DIDN'T SAY HE WANTED SOMETHING FOR DOWNHILL. if OP wants to get a different board, he can. i was just offering my two since for a beginner board. also, hop off the hate train of loaded and original. just because you hate a brand doesn't make you more "core' of a longboarder and you just sound like an asshole. believe it or not, you can still like those brands and have fun longboarding. i know, its astounding.
 
Well if he wants to learn sliding then he will need to get comfortable with downhill. I mean, I would hope he wouldnt just go down a hill into a slide if he is not even comfortable going down a hill first
 
LOL at all the people in this thread taking long boards seriously.

Longboards are the single-most idiotic form of transportation, above roller skates and Segways.
 
They'll be easy to learn slides on, sure. I'll give you that. But when he wants to go faster/bigger into slides, which he eventually will, switching from springs to bushings will essentially force him to relearn how to slide in the first place. Might as well start off on what you'll stick with, rather than buy something that will eventually have to be replaced by a far superior design.

Also, about be being an original/loaded hate train rider or whatever the fuck you said, I've owned a tan tien and also an original pintail. On the Loaded, one tail snapped the second week I had it from just learning shuvits. Essentially the epitome of what the deck is marketed for. Then I curbed it and the other tail was crunched. Then I got the pintail and the tail on that one was demolished after a matter of days, and it was delaming like mad just by flipping over. I am not speaking from any sort of untested bias. I have owned these boards, and I have owned other boards. With no other brand have I had such durability issues. A longboard should be able to take a mellow curbing without going to shit. I'm trying to help OP by getting him started in something he won't have to/want to replace after a month or two.
 
if you are looking to start longboarding i would for sure go wit a hybrid board looks like a skate board with nose and tail kicks but is much bigger so you can skate most every style of skating with it. i would 100% recommend a BUSTIN, yo face 39(not a joke, a real model) super fun board. kills is on dh/freeride(with the right wheels) and can be ridden and ollied like a skate board.
 
and also above all Caliber trucks are the best cast trucks in the longboarding world cronins being a clise second and for wheels if you are gonna be sliding/ cruising, abec11 flashbacks are cheap, fun and if you are not going to be busting out 40ft+ standies on hot days they will last a hell of a long time i would go with 78a and Vicious grip tape is the way to go not the cheapest grip tape around but worth it all the same(you will never slip off of your board if not i would just look around at either muirskate.com or edgeboardshop.com they have the best selections/costomer service/everything longboarding around
 
Haha so i've heard. I think I'm going to put some on my sportster. standies for days.

^ To the guy still defending original, noooo. been there, done that. Original trucks really don't even initiate slides well. They're just too wobbly to do anything. and they can't go fast. but, they feel like sex to carve on, i have to give them that. its almost like a snowboard. but is it really worth it, to have trucks that are only fun to carve on? i have surfrodz now. those carve almost as good, can go fast, and slide crazy good. cronins are about the same feel. original gets hate for a reason. they act like they're the end all be all best truck in the world, but they simply aren't.
 
well okay, if your hate is warranted then go for it.

and its really up to the op but dropping 140 on a board isn't that much. maybe after riding it for a while, he'll know what he wants in a board and go buy one that is right for him instead of just blindly dropping $250 + on a board he knows nothing about.
 
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