Texas Longboarder

Here are a few pics from a session I was at this weekend at the Lil Surfer ditch, in Austin. These are shots of my friends Jack and John. We were hitting the ditch on Gravity Minicarve boards. They are both Gravity teamriders. Great guys, and a really fun session.

John has really become sort of the master of the Minicarve. He has a great style, and this seemingly primitive board really suits him. I say seemingly primitive because, really, the board is very well-designed.

I have never seen anyone that skates quite like Jack, except maybe pictures and video of Jay Adams. Jack gets sooooo low to the ground, and just skates so fast. I didn’t even gets pics of most of his stuff – he was doing footplants, bonedrechts, etc. Really rad.

Originally uploaded by Greg Nissen

This board shape really makes sense to me.Kind of Minicarve/Hypercarve -ish, but this has more nose. Good cutout shape to prevent wheelbite. A bit on the expensive side, but all of Longboard Larry’s stuff is hand made, and he does it all real nice.

http://www.longboardlarry.com/boards/komodo.php

Originally uploaded by o²

Another cool longboard pic from flickr.com. Look at those wheels. Excellent!

Old fashioned. Longboard.

Originally uploaded by js.gauthier

Cool shot of an old Sector 9 board. Love the black and white.

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Originally uploaded by estimatd

Oooo la la! This is board is sweet, and the pic is nice too. I have been eyeing the Rayne Hustler a bit. Flexy board with nice shape and wheel clearance.

Obviously, I haven’t been getting out to skate a lot. Spending to much time looking at longboard porn.

More longboard porn from flickr! What a cool shot. Fullbag makes such rad boards, and I’ve come to really love drop-through truck mounting.  It just makes the whole thing seem so much more stable and solid.