Random Griptape Shoutout

Quick post---

I've been looking into new griptape designs and stuff on SF and I found an example of awesome griptape.

---I do not own this picture--- it's from 'ShraplinTetons'

Yes ladies and gentlemen, that is griptape. Huzzah for Star Wars! I'm thinking of ordering some of this stuff---

and then some vicious in black or clear.

I dunno heh

-sensation

Vacation Skateboarding

Hi it's Sensation,

I went to the Keys for a quick Thanksgiving vacation this weekend. I got in a little skateboarding but I was mainly just on the beach for like 3 days. It was great.

I'm attempting to perfect my coleman and trying to understand if standies are even possible on sidewinders. hopefully they are. I'm trying to learn how to lookback but dancing isn't really mah style. heh. not much been happening lately though. I'm beginning to break in my new 4prez. They're great and I recommend them lol.

Well

-sensation

Yah Brah Longboarding

Today was a long, hot, fun, day. KP and I skateboarded for 6 hours. It was awesome. We really got in the zone with our 180 body varials.

I made up a trick called the (sorry to offend yee irish) Irish Jig. You pretty much stand on one foot and do some air kicks with your leg. weeee

We got some combos in too.

1. cross-step

2. double 180 body varial

3. irish jig (for the win!)

4. then bring on the coleman slide


After like 5 hours in KP's neighborhood we went to my place and bombed some hills. We went down a bridge, into a beach tunnel, through mangroves, and went down a private park. By far the best was the park.

All this fun skateboarding led us to creating Yah Brah Longboarding. It's pretty much us and a few friends in a longboard crew. I'm making a sick logo that I'll post if I can figure out how to... anyone know how to use a printer to scan? nope? we might make custom hats too. dunno.

I tried the Bogart and actually felt camber. the camber surprised me lol.

well all in all pretty good day i think

-sensation

pics to come possibly

Plans

Today, me and sensation are going longboarding. There is this park about twenty minutes from our houses and my mom/sensations mom will drive us there.
I'm planning on doing some serious pumping, cruising/carving, and long-distance riding. We shall see what other kind of stuff we're going to do, and I'm thinking with Asian's improved board and my board, we could do some nice riding.


Signed,~Kp15#
P.S. sorry for the wait.

I Bit the Bullet

...and it tasted good.

Well my bday passed a few days ago I scored great. (thanks family lol) yeah i got:

Otang 4Pres i finally decided to get these wheels over stimulus. i honestly decided to build a cruiser setup before downhill or sliding

S9 BHNC Slide gloves

TONS of stickers

Unit Tool

9lives s9 skatevideo

s9 keychain (that's a bottle opener. for the win!)


and some other great stuff woohoo

i might even buy a pennyboard with bday mula

MULA!


i'm trying to learn how to coleman and it's fun. gotta be careful not to get run over by lazy drivers though. (yes i'm looking at you terrible drivers! we share the road too!)

Still Here

I've been sick for like a week. I got a cold on Tuesday (?) and I've been sneezing, coughing, and doing whatever else you do when you have a mega-cold. I didn't skateboard for a week either. My days pretty much had me sitting on the couch, browsing Youtube and Silverfish for hours. But, I'm happy to say I am back and am not sick anymore. yay

My birthday is coming up soon. I'm hoping to get some Otang 4prez in orange. That will probably top off my ultimate cruiser setup too! Then for christmas I'm aiming for a gopro 2 hd. Haha yeah I know high hopes but I'm crossing my fingers! Maybe if I get a camera I can shoot up some vids for you guys. I dunno... well go out and longboard haha. Here's a pic of the best camera EVER

kinda small pic sorry

-sensation

Madrid Boards

There is another longboard company I am stalking: Madrid.
I got this one cool pic from their website: This is the Madrid Rip38. From reviews (there are practically none) this is made of quality Canadian maple and is a great board for cruising and downhill. I'm liking this for possibly my next board.


Signed,~Kp15#

The EW Boom

It seems like I've been doing so many posts about Earthwing boards, but what can I say, they're awesome!

The Earthwing Road Killer is one of Earthwings new-ish free-ride machines in their line-up. On the 'fish, I've heard that this thing can rival the Supermodel, too.

I really like the magazine type print for the earthwing logo. It's different and if you look closely, the g is from orangantag print, and the r is from Santa Cruz. I haven't found the other ones yet but whatever.

This new board has w concave I think (not 100% sure, better look it up) it has rocker. No camber obviously, and it clocks in at 40.5 inches long and 10 wide. It's wayyy too big for me but for a bigger guy it'd be great. Here are some links for this new thingy:

Muirskate Earthwing

Earthwing Main Site

Silverfish Discussion Thread

I look forward to more reviews of this board!

-sensation

EWS(2012)

I've been doing some snooping on Silverfish, and I found out about a new Earthwing Supermodel that is supposedly coming out in 2012. It's supposed to be micro-dropped (I admit, I have no idea what that is, it sounds cool though) It's going to have a new graphic, and a new shape too.

I tried my friend's dad's Li Ka Oi or something and it was pretty cool. That board was probably 20 years old but it was pretty fun. It clocks in at like 44 inches so it was like actually surfing the pavement. weeeee....

Now, what you've all been waiting for----- a pic of the new ESW..................!?

Pic courtesy of Silverfish

I can't wait till this comes out! The new graphic is sweet too.

Epic Board of Epic Epicness!!!!!!!!

So

I get home yesterday to find a overly-large package which (I'm not making a story out of) obviously contained an Arbor Bogart. I rip open the package and go outside to ride it.

It felt really nice with the Gullwing Chargers but they need to be loosened. Since NordsBoards.com offers a skate tool for 10.00 I got one. I loosened up the trucks and went for a ride. I live really close to this cool park so I rode over there and went to the basketball courts. I was carving and turning and cruising and going back to my kick-tail a lot. It was awesome!

So I still loosened my trucks a bit and cleaned the board (refer to "Board Maintenance") and since I'm so protective of my board, I taped up the bottom of the tail because I scratched it up enough on the basketball courts.

Signed,~Kp15#

Halloween of Skateboarding

i spent my Halloween skateboarding around the neighborhood. i wore my rasta wig and hunted for candy for a little while. i wasn't out long, but i think i got a pretty good haul.

it was really fun being ahead of everyone because i was on my longboard. those trusty gullwing sidewinders sure didn't let me down when i had to carve through lots of people. i was really impressed with my trucks that time. i ordered some softer bushings to see if that will help my board flex up. i dunno haha. 

well kp recently got his arbor bogart in the mail, i won't say much, though. hopefully he'll post about it soon. i texted him about it and he said it was sick. time to wait for his review! 

well all in all happy Halloween! don't overdose on candy! 

pic courtesy of google images!