A tutorial explaining everything you need to know about bombing hills on a skateboard. This video covers everything from how to power slide to what type of wheels you need.
3 weeks after picking up my first board I was riding with a friend near the beach and suddenly there was this really big, really long downhill... I just didn't think it twice and went for it. I was lucky to have had my trucks tight, because if I hadn't had, I would had fallen at like 50km/h. Just committed all the way through, and I was just so impressed by it that I did it two more times. The old man at at the end of the hill told me some guy had done the same but fell really hard and he took him to the hospital with several broken bones.
i skate lose as fuck trucks and can still bomb hills. it's just about being relaxed. when you feel the wobble, ride it out. if you try and correct it and go the opposite way or whatever, it just makes it bigger.
Your back truck should be tighter than your front truck. This is extremely important for slides and avoiding wobbles! Cant believe he left this out. Nice tips about scouting ahead, though.
Both mine were loose as fuck. Rode a drop deck free ride board with holey trucks, sayshun b pos plasma wheels. Some prick stole it and I haven't ridden since. Dick.
i would imagine that's not good tho cuz what if you wanna go front side AND back side slides. Also just genuinely curious cuz I wasn't aware, how does having the front looser than the back make it easier to avoid wobbles?
Powermove Squadron i assume its because u will only get wobbles in ur front and thats easy to control. The worst thing is when ur bombing and ur back trucks wobble
I remember watching this video when I first started skating 2 years ago, it seemed impossible to do this, powersliding looked sooo cool but I didn't think I could do it. Today I do it all the time, so fun! Thank your for this video, i really like it.
Bombed my first hill yesterday, got the speed wobbles and got slammed hard af. The rush was so insane tho. Gonna learn to power slide and go again. Shits too fun!
There's no other feeling quite like bombing a hill. The wind in your face the feeling of the board under your feet and the sound of the wheels spinning faster and faster. That OH SHIT feeling you get when you start getting the wobbles. Knowing the risk factors and then the ultimate feeling when you survive and ride it out. This is what SKATE OR DIE means lol
Here’s my recent sketchy hill bombing story: I’m out of practice but back into skating a few weeks now used to long board for years in nyc able to front slide and back slide too.. was going down the williamsburg bridge and i have large but soft wheels on a short board for cruising- the soft wheels make it impossible to power slide - i thought it was because im out of practice but this video confirms it’s impossible to slide / speed check soft wheels. So i usually foot drag to keep the speed manageable and towards the end of the hill i let it rip… i’ve made it a few times with no issue but definitely close to max speed that’s possible… at the end of the hill there’s a pretty sharp 90 degree turn off otherwise you keep going straight into a concrete wall or slightly right into a highway-- anyway… last time i bombed it i was tired and not feeling it but did it anyway… i think i mis judged how much speed i would get because i committed to the letting it rip part maybe too early and got wayyyy more speed then was acceptable i knew i was gonna likely eat shit… no pads no shirt and loose shorts -- okay as i hit max speed -- i feel wobbles so i know how to handle that .. lock knees together head forward pressure on the front foot and get as low as possible liek a knock knee bow down ass up … okay im approaching the bottom - i’m totally committed as i’m too fast to attempt a foot drag and can’t attempt it now since i need control to get through the posts at the end of the bridge - now you got these 1 foot wide steel cyclinrical posts about 3.5 feet apart that block cars i assume you gotta field goal that so it’s critical you DO NOT LOSE CONTROL before shooting through these posts… i know i’m going too fast approaching the posts so im dead focused on making the posts -- blast through those then immediately have to reassess the 90 degree turn… no way i’m making it… i decided to bail and attempt a run out.. shorts are very loose … i run out… going insane -- brace for nasty fall -- shorts falll to my knees from the weight of my phone … fuuuuck running out somehow my feet keep moving and i don’t trip and eat it… i finish the run out -- pull up my shorts -- grab my board and look around at the people looking at me like WTF JUST HAPPENED and I retrieve my board and happily skate away - feeling very luck i wasn’t at least bleeding a lot. 💀😅
I went down this massive hill on a longboard but when I got to the bottom and was moving at about 25 mph I realized, oh a speedbump. You can probably tell what happened after that.
i hit a speed bump all the time going 25 mph at the bottom of this hill. loose trucks on a skateboard too. i just ride through it, get wobbles for about a split second, then they go away.
i bomb hills on a cruiser, normal deck soft kinda biggish wheels normal trucks and risers, i dont slow down at hills by powersliding u just go and hope you dont die :D max speed ive gone is 50km/h and started getting some speed wobbles
i don't have a big enough wheel to hit 50k, but if i either learn to slide that speed on cruiser wheels, or just wait until this road gets extended, i might be able to. you ever been to a BMX track? i can hit more than double the speed on one of this guy bombing hills. if you know how to pump, it's hella fun.
Soft wheels don't only grip but absorb more on the street like small pebbles and cracks n bumps also their less noisy the hard wheels especially when bombing
very true but soft wheels won't slide as well when powersliding so you'd be more likely to get caught up and pitched to the concrete. Also bombing hills is really tears up your wheels and soft wheels tend to get flat spots easier. Thanks for watching!
lol yea i know i use hard but if u just wanna roll small hills and neibhorhoods and not get yelled at by old ppl soft is stealthy but hard is the only way to go if u really wanna be diverse espesially without trick decks so u dont result in razor tail to stop
+blankbrian hard wheels are fucking terrible for bombing hills. people who don't slide are going to get pitched off way easier than soft wheels. do yourself a favor and buy yourself a pack of 78a's and carve the shit out of a massive hill. you'll never go back to hard wheels in your life
how do people bomb hills on soft wheels? theres this magical thing called longboarding, an entire sport dedicated to standing on a skateboard and rolling as fast as you can down a hill
+Mike Juliano bro are you serious ahahaha people who can bomb hills on a skateboard have 10x the skill longboarders have. let me know when you can balance on a board that isn't almost as tall as you are and turn off easy mode
+ToxicKlay actually I'll have you know I have a 33x8.7 inch longboard it's just not a double kick so really I could do it on a regular skateboard, I just choose not to because you go faster on softer wheels, it takes much more skill to slide on softer wheels, and you're not obnoxious on hard wheels
The whole idea of "bombing" a hill is going down a hill with speed. I saw none of that in this video..... You just lost slowed youself down with powerslides before you could even pick up any speed
There are kind of two different ways of bombing hills that I see. For some people, it's going down really big hills and basically hanging on for dear life because you're moving way too fast to do any tricks, which is what you're talking about. But there are also people who do it in a more mellow way, where they just find gentle-ish hills and use lots of power slides to slow down so they can do ollies, kick flips, etc. The momentum from the hill makes it so you don't have to always push the whole time, even though you aren't going super fast compared to the other way of hill-bombing. There is nothing wrong with either style, I've done both and they are both fun. At the end of the day, I'm just glad to see people on a skateboard having fun and especially teaching others.
You gotta go whatever speed is most comfortable, if you push it further than that you’ll probably eat shit. Not that eating shit isn’t fun or a learning experience but I’m sure most people don’t want to eat shit all the time
Josh I agree with what you said, I enjoy being able to go at a speed where I can go fast and power slide but also at a speed where I can still pop Ollie’s over sewers and shit like that
Good stuff man. Was checking this out because I need to learn powerslides. I live in the nati and I have always just foot braked but my shoes aren't so thankful.
You'd be surprised how fast he was going. Tripod long lens shots really kill any indication of speed. Kinda has the opposite effect where it makes any motion look less exaggerated.
Good video. A lot better than other BS you can find around. By the way, you can slide on softer wheels too. Try some round lip smaller longboard wheels that are meant for freeriding.
Ehh. Wish I'd seen this earlier today, just bombed my first hill on my longboard, made the mistake of having loose trucks because I like carving. Speed wobbles kicked in, someone walked in front of me and I couldn't deal with both. I went down hard. All things considered I was lucky I rolled when I fell, I only lost a couple of teeth. D: Now I've got a toothache and a minor concussion. 10/10 will have to try the hill again, If I don't I might never skate again.
TheGod0fCookies I know your comments old by now but this is why I bring my skate tool with me everywhere, so when I’m just cruising I can loosen the trucks and when I’m about to go down a hill I can tighten them. Sucks when you finally catch some speed just to go straight in to the ground.
I bombed a huge hill with soft wheels on a penny board at full speed without slowing down and I speed wobbled so hard but I didn't die. So I did a bigger hill that was double the size and had a 90° turn halfway down
Tbh best way to learn if you're a beginner and only have experience street skating/don't do a lot of transition and fast skating is to start with a long board with 70mm wheels just to get the basics of learning to control yourself at higher speeds going down hills and keeping balance as you carve and hit rougher ground/cracks. Once you learn the basics and gain your confidence and balance and muslce memory then you can switch to a skateboard. First time I ever hill bombed was on a 8.0 board w/ 54mm wheels and ate shit and decided to never try again.. then I found a long board in the open in the middle of a back alley randomly at 12am when I was blazing a joint with the homies. Hill bombed on it for a couple weeks and even on that when going real fast like 30/40mph i'd get wobbles in my legs and it would be sketch and I'd be really scared to dig in and deep carve at that speed, after like 1 month it was cake tho I had my low crouched surfer swag heavy caving style. Set up a 8.25 deck w/ 56mm wheels for cruising/bombing and sold the long board and haven't looked back since. Way better to learn on a long board first cuz you're much less likely to eat shit when u first start on a longboard compared to a skateboard
It feels pretty scary though... like a swear you pick up speed at multiplying speeds per second haha. My kittle powerslides don't seem to do much until it gets too quick and I just bail
I bomb hills on my longboard and I have loose double kingpins. I love getting speed but also setting up some stuff to do slalom on cuz I have Gullwing Sidewinder II trucks so...
my new highschool has an open gates policy so i want to get the best of that and go skating at lunch. thing is the school is located in a really steep hill and i really don't want to fall down again on my longboard...
In watching a video about how to go down Giant hills Just to ride down a street that goes really slightly down without falling backwards or die from anxiety
+Jackson Oberhauser Barely. "Bombing hills is fun because you go fast. You'll need a board and a hill. Do powerslides. Use common sense/safety." Informative for beginners I guess. That is important, but really this seems like common knowledge.
+DADDY FIERI Try it and come tell me it's boring. You can still ollie on a downhill deck at 20 mph. If you are too scared to then don't get on a board downhill.
+SinnedNogara Longboards are only faster because of bearings and wheel size. If you push enough and have the skill to avoid speed wobble you can go just as fast.
+Beni Wheel size and duro yeah. But the thing with longboards is they're stable, maneuverable and predictable going fast. They generally lean a lot more which keeps your feet on the board, along with deeper concave and coarser grip, and have board designs that reduce or eliminate wheelbite with big wheels.
***** I don't understand that mentality. Sure, ride what you want, but there are different boards for different things. You don't see longboarders telling people their tre flip would be more respectable on a longboard because it's harder to do. That's not really the point.
3rd day skating and nearly ate shit going over 40mph down a steep sidewalk. Half way down either I stop or go I kept going and the whole time I was like ohhhh shit I'm gonna fall there was a crosswalk so I make a quick right into a gas station and go out the other way end up zooming and going up in a different street. I am always gonna where a helmet
I realize this video is instructional and for newbies, but give them a sample of bombing hills at least. This is about avoiding hill bombs. Aka "how to handle a hill if you don't want to bomb..." Title should be something like that.
My shoes are getting so wrecked by dragging my foot I’m putting shoe goo on the bottom and I finally said. NO . I don’t wanna do this so I decided to learn powerslides
Krilliams then your wheels would get wrecked, and unevenly. just sorta kick the ground with your foot, works for me. if you have the money, or ride huge wheels, and rotate them, you should be fine.
He powerslides like every 2 seconds... I Have a sharkboard with long board wheels and there is no powersliding. You just carve and keep applying weight in a direction. Never go strait down unless you have super tight trucks. this guys a wuss! TO AVOID SPEED WOBBLE KEEP CARVING BACK AND FORTH. APPLYING WEIGHT WILL FORCE YOUR TRUCKS TO STAY IN ONE DIRECTION AT A TIME.
Maggie Logston he's going faster than it looks. lenses with a higher focal distance tend to kill any sense of speed. most of this was shot with a 50mm and higher so it looks like he's going a lot slower. Thanks for watching!
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If you come to San Fransisco or LA, you're not bombing hills, you're bombing mountains
Anthony Solorio hahaha very true
For real, like Baxter Street which the Nuge famously bombed.
Or Seattle
I live in sf and it’s insane. Instead of looking for hills you’re looking for flat roads
Nolan Kurpius true
3 weeks after picking up my first board I was riding with a friend near the beach and suddenly there was this really big, really long downhill... I just didn't think it twice and went for it. I was lucky to have had my trucks tight, because if I hadn't had, I would had fallen at like 50km/h. Just committed all the way through, and I was just so impressed by it that I did it two more times. The old man at at the end of the hill told me some guy had done the same but fell really hard and he took him to the hospital with several broken bones.
X88X you're lucky no cars were around
Gragon 777 Or a rock pebble. You could keep your eye open if any are around but you are going so damn fast it's hard to catch any.
Lmao i bomb hills with loose trucks fuck you mean🤘
Have you started longboarding yet?
i skate lose as fuck trucks and can still bomb hills. it's just about being relaxed. when you feel the wobble, ride it out. if you try and correct it and go the opposite way or whatever, it just makes it bigger.
Im Marty McFly Williams and im bout to bomb this master hill
Z MIL lol I was just thinking about that
Your back truck should be tighter than your front truck. This is extremely important for slides and avoiding wobbles! Cant believe he left this out. Nice tips about scouting ahead, though.
Caelin Bruce lol I read your last sentence as he talked about that
Both mine were loose as fuck. Rode a drop deck free ride board with holey trucks, sayshun b pos plasma wheels. Some prick stole it and I haven't ridden since. Dick.
i would imagine that's not good tho cuz what if you wanna go front side AND back side slides. Also just genuinely curious cuz I wasn't aware, how does having the front looser than the back make it easier to avoid wobbles?
Powermove Squadron i assume its because u will only get wobbles in ur front and thats easy to control. The worst thing is when ur bombing and ur back trucks wobble
Something inside of me feels bad for him and I don’t know why. The entire time he looked so nervous and shy!😕
He probably skates alone, he’s dope tho.
Plot twist: they have him at gun point behind the camera
Weird body language and weak voice? Idk
@@barotrauma5033 🤣
I remember watching this video when I first started skating 2 years ago, it seemed impossible to do this, powersliding looked sooo cool but I didn't think I could do it.
Today I do it all the time, so fun!
Thank your for this video, i really like it.
Bombed my first hill yesterday, got the speed wobbles and got slammed hard af. The rush was so insane tho. Gonna learn to power slide and go again. Shits too fun!
how’s the progress? you try out sliding gloves? that was a game changer for me.
There's no other feeling quite like bombing a hill. The wind in your face the feeling of the board under your feet and the sound of the wheels spinning faster and faster. That OH SHIT feeling you get when you start getting the wobbles. Knowing the risk factors and then the ultimate feeling when you survive and ride it out. This is what SKATE OR DIE means lol
Here’s my recent sketchy hill bombing story:
I’m out of practice but back into skating a few weeks now used to long board for years in nyc able to front slide and back slide too.. was going down the williamsburg bridge and i have large but soft wheels on a short board for cruising- the soft wheels make it impossible to power slide - i thought it was because im out of practice but this video confirms it’s impossible to slide / speed check soft wheels. So i usually foot drag to keep the speed manageable and towards the end of the hill i let it rip… i’ve made it a few times with no issue but definitely close to max speed that’s possible… at the end of the hill there’s a pretty sharp 90 degree turn off otherwise you keep going straight into a concrete wall or slightly right into a highway-- anyway… last time i bombed it i was tired and not feeling it but did it anyway… i think i mis judged how much speed i would get because i committed to the letting it rip part maybe too early and got wayyyy more speed then was acceptable i knew i was gonna likely eat shit… no pads no shirt and loose shorts -- okay as i hit max speed -- i feel wobbles so i know how to handle that .. lock knees together head forward pressure on the front foot and get as low as possible liek a knock knee bow down ass up … okay im approaching the bottom - i’m totally committed as i’m too fast to attempt a foot drag and can’t attempt it now since i need control to get through the posts at the end of the bridge - now you got these 1 foot wide steel cyclinrical posts about 3.5 feet apart that block cars i assume you gotta field goal that so it’s critical you DO NOT LOSE CONTROL before shooting through these posts… i know i’m going too fast approaching the posts so im dead focused on making the posts -- blast through those then immediately have to reassess the 90 degree turn… no way i’m making it… i decided to bail
and attempt a run out.. shorts are very loose … i run out… going insane -- brace for nasty fall -- shorts falll to my knees from the weight of my phone … fuuuuck running out somehow my feet keep moving and i don’t trip and eat it… i finish the run out -- pull up my shorts -- grab my board and look around at the people looking at me like WTF JUST HAPPENED and I retrieve my board and happily skate away - feeling very luck i wasn’t at least bleeding a lot. 💀😅
Soft wheels slide, even on a short wheelbase board. I slide 78A's on a street deck. They grip more so you just need to power through the breakout.
3:00 i thot tht they were his legz
Lmaooo
Plot twist they are
That’s some veiny legs FOIR DAM YEARS LATE COMMENT
I went down this massive hill on a longboard but when I got to the bottom and was moving at about 25 mph I realized, oh a speedbump. You can probably tell what happened after that.
Face, meet floor.
i hit a speed bump all the time going 25 mph at the bottom of this hill. loose trucks on a skateboard too. i just ride through it, get wobbles for about a split second, then they go away.
Know your surroundings broski.
Ollie
You Ollied it 😎
Jk lol
i bomb hills on a cruiser, normal deck soft kinda biggish wheels normal trucks and risers, i dont slow down at hills by powersliding u just go and hope you dont die :D max speed ive gone is 50km/h and started getting some speed wobbles
Haxuu when you say "normal trucksc do you think you could give me a name on the trucks?
Bullshit stories
What is 50km in miles
@@Exploshi about 30 i think
i don't have a big enough wheel to hit 50k, but if i either learn to slide that speed on cruiser wheels, or just wait until this road gets extended, i might be able to. you ever been to a BMX track? i can hit more than double the speed on one of this guy bombing hills. if you know how to pump, it's hella fun.
he was talking about soft wheels on a triicks board. this video is for people on a tricks board. all these longboarders man calm down
his technique was innacurate though, he literally would not be able to slide sub 99a wheels because he doesn't keep his weight on the front foot.
Soft wheels don't only grip but absorb more on the street like small pebbles and cracks n bumps also their less noisy the hard wheels especially when bombing
very true but soft wheels won't slide as well when powersliding so you'd be more likely to get caught up and pitched to the concrete. Also bombing hills is really tears up your wheels and soft wheels tend to get flat spots easier. Thanks for watching!
lol yea i know i use hard but if u just wanna roll small hills and neibhorhoods and not get yelled at by old ppl soft is stealthy but hard is the only way to go if u really wanna be diverse espesially without trick decks so u dont result in razor tail to stop
*with trick decks srry
+blankbrian hard wheels are fucking terrible for bombing hills. people who don't slide are going to get pitched off way easier than soft wheels. do yourself a favor and buy yourself a pack of 78a's and carve the shit out of a massive hill. you'll never go back to hard wheels in your life
+ToxicKlay
Do a mix of both, I have hard wheels and it's a good time!
how do people bomb hills on soft wheels? theres this magical thing called longboarding, an entire sport dedicated to standing on a skateboard and rolling as fast as you can down a hill
No it really isn't.
+Ben is it because you're scared to go above 30 miles an hour?
+Mike Juliano bro are you serious ahahaha people who can bomb hills on a skateboard have 10x the skill longboarders have. let me know when you can balance on a board that isn't almost as tall as you are and turn off easy mode
+ToxicKlay actually I'll have you know I have a 33x8.7 inch longboard it's just not a double kick so really I could do it on a regular skateboard, I just choose not to because you go faster on softer wheels, it takes much more skill to slide on softer wheels, and you're not obnoxious on hard wheels
+Mike Juliano Fuck off dude this is why no one likes longboarders
I need to learn how to stop, safely
*me as a longboarder* this whole video is a joke
Rule #1 wear a helmet guys
I bet you loved the part when he said something like "to me hard wheels are key, I dont know if anyone uses soft wheels for downhill" 😂
Michael Olivares i have used soft wheels before what makes you think they are bad for downhill
@@michaelolivares6914 you go faster on soft wheels, so i use them to prove i am god of speed wobbles to other people combined with loose trucks.
Different styles my dude.
I don’t see anybody kickfliping at 100mph.
Although I agree with you about helmets bombing hills.
This video isn’t for longboards, it’s for skateboards.
The whole idea of "bombing" a hill is going down a hill with speed. I saw none of that in this video..... You just lost slowed youself down with powerslides before you could even pick up any speed
wobbles are bae
But just like snowboarding, power sliding or rotating the board adds to the fun and style to it
There are kind of two different ways of bombing hills that I see. For some people, it's going down really big hills and basically hanging on for dear life because you're moving way too fast to do any tricks, which is what you're talking about. But there are also people who do it in a more mellow way, where they just find gentle-ish hills and use lots of power slides to slow down so they can do ollies, kick flips, etc. The momentum from the hill makes it so you don't have to always push the whole time, even though you aren't going super fast compared to the other way of hill-bombing. There is nothing wrong with either style, I've done both and they are both fun. At the end of the day, I'm just glad to see people on a skateboard having fun and especially teaching others.
You gotta go whatever speed is most comfortable, if you push it further than that you’ll probably eat shit. Not that eating shit isn’t fun or a learning experience but I’m sure most people don’t want to eat shit all the time
Josh I agree with what you said, I enjoy being able to go at a speed where I can go fast and power slide but also at a speed where I can still pop Ollie’s over sewers and shit like that
Powerslides are mad fun and this dude seems chill af, I don't get what's up with the hate in the comments
1:24 Damn those trucks have taken a beating for a while.
I bomb hills on rubber wheels and small boards. Instead of power sliding, you just get really low and zig zag the hill to lose speed. Surf style.
Instructions unclear: accidentally got arrested
He makes this look like something you can do at 2 years old.
Wow he's so enthusiastic. Said sarcastically
Good stuff man. Was checking this out because I need to learn powerslides. I live in the nati and I have always just foot braked but my shoes aren't so thankful.
"i like to go fast" bullshit mate your barley moving and power sliding every 3 seconds
You'd be surprised how fast he was going. Tripod long lens shots really kill any indication of speed. Kinda has the opposite effect where it makes any motion look less exaggerated.
watch frank or nudge bomb a hill you can tell there fucking flying ?
but done the less i respect the way you responded to my kida hateful comment it
Haha yeah man those dudes are nuts!! And they are FOR REAL flying with a death wish haha. We're definitely not trying to compare to them
Ratatat music is bringing me back to the good ol days in 2009 and now i feel old
what size wheels do you use and what durometer?
Good video. A lot better than other BS you can find around. By the way, you can slide on softer wheels too. Try some round lip smaller longboard wheels that are meant for freeriding.
Ehh. Wish I'd seen this earlier today, just bombed my first hill on my longboard, made the mistake of having loose trucks because I like carving.
Speed wobbles kicked in, someone walked in front of me and I couldn't deal with both.
I went down hard.
All things considered I was lucky I rolled when I fell, I only lost a couple of teeth. D:
Now I've got a toothache and a minor concussion.
10/10 will have to try the hill again, If I don't I might never skate again.
TheGod0fCookies I know your comments old by now but this is why I bring my skate tool with me everywhere, so when I’m just cruising I can loosen the trucks and when I’m about to go down a hill I can tighten them. Sucks when you finally catch some speed just to go straight in to the ground.
i like wobbles though.
I've learned so much.
I bombed a huge hill with soft wheels on a penny board at full speed without slowing down and I speed wobbled so hard but I didn't die. So I did a bigger hill that was double the size and had a 90° turn halfway down
Yup back in my day bombing hills was a sport we used to do
3:48 subtitles😂 I'm dead!😵
lmao
lool
Awesome explanation!
Tbh best way to learn if you're a beginner and only have experience street skating/don't do a lot of transition and fast skating is to start with a long board with 70mm wheels just to get the basics of learning to control yourself at higher speeds going down hills and keeping balance as you carve and hit rougher ground/cracks. Once you learn the basics and gain your confidence and balance and muslce memory then you can switch to a skateboard. First time I ever hill bombed was on a 8.0 board w/ 54mm wheels and ate shit and decided to never try again.. then I found a long board in the open in the middle of a back alley randomly at 12am when I was blazing a joint with the homies. Hill bombed on it for a couple weeks and even on that when going real fast like 30/40mph i'd get wobbles in my legs and it would be sketch and I'd be really scared to dig in and deep carve at that speed, after like 1 month it was cake tho I had my low crouched surfer swag heavy caving style. Set up a 8.25 deck w/ 56mm wheels for cruising/bombing and sold the long board and haven't looked back since. Way better to learn on a long board first cuz you're much less likely to eat shit when u first start on a longboard compared to a skateboard
Sick ass Gravis shoes dude
Hi I need some advice for power sliding any tips?
what kind of wheels do you use? duro/size? thanks!
I use formula 4s and size is 53
i use oj whatevers, they seem to slide an ideal amount for medium sized hills, and they're the only fast wheels i've had that were hard.
Cant say how many times powersliding saved my life when bombing hills
What wheels, size and hardness plz?
It feels pretty scary though... like a swear you pick up speed at multiplying speeds per second haha. My kittle powerslides don't seem to do much until it gets too quick and I just bail
what if there's a stop sign
instructions unclear: i woke up without my foreskin
I bomb hills on my longboard and I have loose double kingpins. I love getting speed but also setting up some stuff to do slalom on cuz I have Gullwing Sidewinder II trucks so...
I live in sf so this is very helpful
my new highschool has an open gates policy so i want to get the best of that and go skating at lunch.
thing is the school is located in a really steep hill and i really don't want to fall down again on my longboard...
I have a huge road rash. Whats the next step?
Wich wheels does que used?
Why are back side power slides so much easier?
In watching a video about how to go down Giant hills Just to ride down a street that goes really slightly down without falling backwards or die from anxiety
Downhill skaters usually use big soft wheels but on a board like this its fine if you can do it just making the point
'if u like going fast'.... does a powerslide every 3 inches
Good one! Thanks :)
Which board do u use
that asphalt tasted good
Nice pop 👍
this guy bombs hills so slow haha
This whole video is kinda ridiculous from a longboarding perspective
It's more informative than showing how fast he can go
Jackson Oberhauser theres a famous saying..
"Why not"
+Jackson Oberhauser Barely. "Bombing hills is fun because you go fast. You'll need a board and a hill. Do powerslides. Use common sense/safety." Informative for beginners I guess. That is important, but really this seems like common knowledge.
Yet, this dude doesn't wear any protection.
Haha once I hit a patch of grass and I went flying
nice to see another skateboarder from Cincinnati
where do you live pal? It looks really good there @blankbrian
This is all shot in Cincinnati Ohio
living in cinci myself, the hills around here are no joke
awesome
What does he think downhill freeride is
You could get a longboard and go 30+
+DADDY FIERI Try it and come tell me it's boring. You can still ollie on a downhill deck at 20 mph. If you are too scared to then don't get on a board downhill.
+SinnedNogara
Longboards are only faster because of bearings and wheel size. If you push enough and have the skill to avoid speed wobble you can go just as fast.
+Beni Wheel size and duro yeah. But the thing with longboards is they're stable, maneuverable and predictable going fast. They generally lean a lot more which keeps your feet on the board, along with deeper concave and coarser grip, and have board designs that reduce or eliminate wheelbite with big wheels.
wrongboard
***** I don't understand that mentality. Sure, ride what you want, but there are different boards for different things. You don't see longboarders telling people their tre flip would be more respectable on a longboard because it's harder to do. That's not really the point.
How to go speed with hard wheels
I got speed wabbles and i hit my head and scrape my knees I skate almost every day
3rd day skating and nearly ate shit going over 40mph down a steep sidewalk. Half way down either I stop or go I kept going and the whole time I was like ohhhh shit I'm gonna fall there was a crosswalk so I make a quick right into a gas station and go out the other way end up zooming and going up in a different street. I am always gonna where a helmet
I realize this video is instructional and for newbies, but give them a sample of bombing hills at least. This is about avoiding hill bombs. Aka "how to handle a hill if you don't want to bomb..." Title should be something like that.
You right, thanks for watching!
Whenever I go to Monterey i love bombing the hills with my little penny board, people look at me crazy but it's mad fun
Song name anyone please ?
They're in the credits
I was just starting to skate and bombed a super big hill, ran into a curb and literally died
My shoes are getting so wrecked by dragging my foot I’m putting shoe goo on the bottom and I finally said. NO . I don’t wanna do this so I decided to learn powerslides
Krilliams then your wheels would get wrecked, and unevenly. just sorta kick the ground with your foot, works for me. if you have the money, or ride huge wheels, and rotate them, you should be fine.
Mr. Jamster wheels are cheaper than good shoes.
soft wheels grip the pavement more hard wheels make it easier to slide
TheRickdiculous11 what if your wheels are too easy to slide, and you have to lean forward a bit to do powerslides without slipping back?
He is blinking in morse code, I think they got this guy hostage
Hey completely unrelated but what's your current location?
he really said bombing hills is relaxing
How to stop going down a hill tho?
Hitting a car
front side is easier to everyone lol
"It's relaxing, easy, fun......... iT's ReLaXiNg, EaSy, FuN."
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subbed cause RATATAT
BACKSLIDE FO LIFE
He powerslides like every 2 seconds... I Have a sharkboard with long board wheels and there is no powersliding. You just carve and keep applying weight in a direction. Never go strait down unless you have super tight trucks. this guys a wuss!
TO AVOID SPEED WOBBLE KEEP CARVING BACK AND FORTH. APPLYING WEIGHT WILL FORCE YOUR TRUCKS TO STAY IN ONE DIRECTION AT A TIME.
I live in Cincinnati
im so glad i have a slight incline i can bomb
I ride soft wheels just cuz its smoother on the streets
Watch out for those damn pebbles throwing you off your board
2:11
does that clip not look like a video game!!!
Softer wheels = faster bombs, smoother bombs
Harder wheels = power slides
Except if you live in The Netherlands where there are no hills in cities except in the southern part of the country :')
Actually the movements are same with snowboard
soft wheels are taking the asphalt better than hard once
I dont know why I’m watching this when I live in fucking Florida
There is no hill in my neighborhood
where's the hill bombing?
Cincinnati Ohio?
Yup
If you like going fast why are you doing so many power slides
Maggie Logston he's going faster than it looks. lenses with a higher focal distance tend to kill any sense of speed. most of this was shot with a 50mm and higher so it looks like he's going a lot slower. Thanks for watching!
why is this like an interview?
It was a class project for school and some how blew up...
Marty mc fly boy
I guess I don’t need bearings 😀👍
Yay I can be langa now
Currently watching after eating shit