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Skate Projects: Styles and Techniques
US Tour: West to East.
- US Tour: Northwest.
- US Tour: South.
- US Tour: East. Journal entries and pictures from my sidewalk tour of cities in the west, south, east and northeast. Stories of fulfilling, exciting, and blundering travel, always falling back onto (but not off of) the longboard.
- Skate Storage Training. Training and preparation for longboard travel. An innovative workout plan, skating to and from a distant storage location while planning a move. Not only skate tips, but storage, trip planning, and cold weather training.
- Skate Tour. Travel, sightsee, and get in plenty of skateboarding besides. Use a longboard in place of all local transportation. Detailed explanation of: Hauling loads and dealing with extra backpack weight on skateboard. Soft wheel cruising and speed control technique. Alternating leg push technique for endurance.
- Cross Academy Grinds. Grinds for longboard that use cross stepping and cross stance. Curb tricks for longboards only.
- Skate Reef. Complete list of longboard tricks and maneuvers on this site. Guide for building tricks into longboard styles. Walking, sliding, and street longboard styles covered.
The skate reef is a trick list and guide for building longboard styles. I've organized a list of most of the tricks and maneuvers documented on this site over the years. Lately I've been using the various tricks to build my own hybrid styles. This pyramid designed guide should allow others to do that, as well as working on tribute styles and standard styles.
- Cross Academy. Hybrid longboard style project, mixing different schools of skateboarding.
- Cruise Power. Hybrid longboard style project, mixing Slides and walking tricks. Designed for a big board with a street wheel setup.
- Slide Arc- itecture. Rotation and weighting for slides. Methods of controlling the board as it makes that arc and nice scraping sound.
- Waves. Routines putting together turns, footwork, and other surf style techniques. Manuevers are put together to resemble a longboard ride on a wave.
- Drop Knee Turns. The classic surf turn adapted to the long skateboard. Wingnut and Kevin Miske interviews. Tribute to masters of the drop knee.
Skate and Sports Theory
- Your Problem Might Be Mental. Attitudes, habits, and other mental keys to better skateboarding.
- The Comeback Trail. Methods for recovery from Career-Interrupting Injuries. Scheduling, exercises, and attitudes to come back with less chance of reinjury.
Skate Project Information
- Skateboarding Gear Page
- Photo shoots Log of skate photo shoots. Dates, credits, and details.
- Credits. Thank yous and links to people who helped or inspired.
- Legal disclaimer Statement and skateboard safety warnings.
Hang heel and walk to tail
Cruise Power project
Ollie to front cross step (Crollie)
Cross Academy project
