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We also use special equipment for riding DH skateboards: a regular helmet for cruising and full face helmet for high speed, a set of globes with pucks for the sliding required, optional pads to protect knees and elbows or full leather and Kevlar suit designed for downhill skateboarding. The bushing have a different density also for the purpose of turning. Trucks have a different design to give a better and smoother turn, while street boards trucks are more designed for jumping. The wheels are bigger, softer and have different texture for a personal response we want from then. The set up used for DH skateboards has a different technology prepared to obtain more stability and better response for the body movements that we do to control our board when rolling down a hill. We use special longboards built for speed and for the positions we take during speed boarding. I’m going now to the World Cup in Peru.ĭownhill skateboarding is one side of longboarding dedicated to speed through gravity, all of the movements are controlled by the position of our body.
During the last 5 years it’s being growing everywhere around the world, we have a legal and very popular World cup circuit in all different countries in all the continents. Therefore, inspired more kids, girls and adults to get involved and enjoy it.
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The fact was that longboarding wasn’t made just for skate parks or jumping, instead it gave us a free feeling of rolling on the streets with a better set up for the boards. Street boarding suddenly became a sport oriented to the younger population due to the amount of accidents and body damages that street boarders go through jumping stairs, bowls, ramps …etc with not much protection. With the new technology and the innovation of gear for longboards it has started gaining more popularity over the past 5 years. In the late 80s early 90s street boards took on more popularity over a 10 year period while the longboarders remained as a small group. Well longboarding started a couple of decades ago with skateboarding, it was a small crew at that time in longboarding. For all our readers out there, what exactly constitutes the sports? Why do you think these styles of skating have been re-building in popularity over the last few years and how have they evolved today from their original retro form? Q- Downhill skateboarding and longboarding racing seems to be making a reconnaissance from the 70’s yet is still a relatively underground sport that most people know little about.