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Hey man, you guys are pretty good, but you need to drop the 270 out of the tail/noseslide unless you're going faster and power through that last 45 degrees. It doesn't look good unless you ride away tic-tac free. Loosen up the trucks. Also, that's cool that your friend is in a band, but don't use them as the music unless they have a record deal or at least a little production value. It kinda has that awkward "I'm 14 and feeling up a girl behind the bleachers for the first time" kind of vibe. You know, the kind of music you listen to when the girl dumps you and you feel sorry for yourself listening to it alone in your room, thinking life will never be the same and how many people would miss you if you killed yourself. I had to mute the sound after about 60 seconds. Lastly, don't make a fool of yourselves in front of middle aged black folks. It just backs up the stereotype that all white folks are goofy and awkward.

It only happened to me once, on a Black Label I got as a hand-me-down from Tim Upson, which was only park ridden but could have been already cracked. It broke on a pop shove off a guttery loading dock that was probably 3-4' tall. I used to blow out bearings constantly. Nothing is more annoying than a totally functional board with a wheel falling off.

I replaced the bushings on my trucks with these ancient, super soft bushings I grabbed off an old pair of trucks from a plastic banana board my first girlfriend's little brother used to have. I've been riding them for 20 years. They're so soft you can squish them with your fingers. No one I've ever skated with can ride my board because i have my trucks so loose. No wonder I suck at ramp. I like Indy's because I can actually tighten the kingpin to the point where the locknut actually grabs. I used to have to shoegoo it in place with Ventures and have to fix it constantly. I used to break bearings all the time. I'd only broken one deck and three pairs of trucks, but i went through bearings like Runtz candy.

This was between 1992 and 1999, so whatever ones they made then. I switched to Indys in 2000, and had Trackers before 1992.

I used to ride Ventures, and broke the hanger on them three times, and cracked a baseplate once. I've never broken a kingpin, but I rode the loosest trucks possible so that could have been why.

That shit was ridiculous. Dude has board control like crazy.

Bojangles, symbolism and representationalism is over-rated. Don't dumb down your art because dudes in suits aren't buying it. Give it time. To me, adding stuff like that to abstract art just makes it tryhard. Ps....I'm on my second beer at 11:30 in the morning, so take my comment as you will.

Very unexpected. My condolences to family and friends.

Over that shit. The Tim and Eric clip was good, though.

You're tripping dude. Mars Volta is fucking interesting.

1:15 Nollie pressure to bs nosegrind for the winz. damn, this kid has nollie pressure flips locked down.

That was really, really good. I liked the music, the skating was fast, loose trucks, gnarly tricks, all around no complaints.

How does a used skateboard get refurbished?

It's called "style" khed.

A bunch of Hartford spots in that Panama Dan clip. I saw him front board the hugest rail up by the capitol building years ago. The thing is like chest high at the top step.

Wow.

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Hooray until next month when there's no shop to get a new board at.

Chrimmis lights!

Rail and ledge tricks are getting out of control.

Nice to see a new Casper piece.

Both of these were great, but the second guy was hard charging everything. Fun to watch. Just mute out the hoodrock soundtrack.

I want to see this "tailwalk" trick that was mentioned on the last page.