skateboarding ...

[brendo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STqE9JXgKJU

watch the bones brigade autobiography at xmas, good doco. all those guys are still
shredding and pushin 50. that's commitment when youre landing on concrete, not
water at that age!

[Hatchnam]

Thinking Five Dock next Sunday morning if there's no surf...

should be 3 foot of south swell sunday with offshore winds. dawn session at wanda/greenhills, followed by five dock ?

[Karlos]

Helping a mate take a boat up to the Cenny Coast unfortunately so I'll have to take a rain check. Definitely up for it over the next couple of weekends though.

[Hatchnam]

no probs

[Davros]

Might have to wipe the cob webs off the old Grentec Coyotte II my first board...from I think 1977, had a ride a bout 18 months ago, zips along great still.

[Hatchnam]

skating's the only cross-training type thing for surfing that keeps me entertained. everything else bores me.

[alakaboo]

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/newtown/ ... 1047679881

I've got one of these, it is pretty bouncy but you're a big unit so that'd smooth things out.
Soft wheels so good on rough roads.
Carves really well.

Very bad on hills.

[Hatchnam]

dervish's are Ok, but u could do better. i'd stay clear of anything that has a camber (rise in the deck from nose to tail) as they're too bouncy.

instead go for a flat-deck and something with at least a bit of stiffness and resistance to it. it'll bite and carve harder, and also wont throw you off onto the concrete like the dervish will at any moderate speed.

something like this... 38 inch, pintail, flat, hard-edged wheels (bite and carve)
Jay Adams Z Flex Longboard - $150
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/nowra/sk ... 1047110271
^^ it's in nowra. so close enuff to you. i'd go and strongarm him down to $100 cash.

[alakaboo]

I agree with everything Iggy said.

[Hatchnam]

MF..
if you ever end up getting serious about it all, go here
https://www.basementskate.com.au/longboards/
shop at st. leonards > https://www.basementskate.com.au/help.p ... ode=update
good bunch of peeps, very knowledgeable.
https://www.basementskate.com.au/What-is-the-Basement

[Hatchnam]

oh, and this is a pretty awesome clip. babes downhill !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ4tthrMiNo

[woodeneye]

Nice find Hatcnam - Anna works locally in a great skate and snowboard shop. They do a great job tuning for the winter season as well. She has fitted my daughter out with a Landyachtz, I keep going back for stickers.....

[Hatchnam]

70's skating, 52 min documentary
http://youtu.be/G2bRvseoFOo

and just in case u only wanted to see babes bombing hills, here (same docco)
http://youtu.be/G2bRvseoFOo?t=39m36s

[Karlos]

Try this one Matticus:

http://vimeo.com/1654340

[Hatchnam]

for anyone interest, for wives, g'friends, daughters, etc.. there's a girls skateboarding session on tomorrow at 3pm. meet up at basement skate st leonards. they typically hit up a local multi-level spiral carpark, bomb down it, slides etc... longboard style skating more-so

https://www.facebook.com/events/7027975 ... 4/?fref=ts

[Skipper]

"Tictac to heelflip" 197.. something or other..... Dunno, bout 15-20 mins into it i'm there.

[Hatchnam]

i'm there.

u planning on rocking up?

[Skipper]

nah... trading on past glories here....i was there, i coulda been a contender
but re tomoz: no daughter, no wife, no girlfriend....
just saying sorry iggs.