Disciplines
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Cruising
It's the way to relax. There are no special methods to cruise around a neighborhood, the beach, a parking lot, or wherever.
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Commuting
A longboard's most basic use is travel. Commuter designs take many different shapes, including long, wide cruisers as well as shorter hybrid type boards. Their trucks are designed to be loose to allow for sharper turns. It is useful to have a kicktail on a commuting longboard in order to corner on sidewalks and to lift the front of the board when riding off curbs. Also, one may prefer a longer board, around 38"-42" (about 1m) for commuting, as well as larger wheels (65mm-75mm) which help commuters maneuver bumps, cracks and other minor surface obstacles. Commuting via longboard is extremely popular among college/young adult communities
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Long Distance Skating
Longboards are now being used for travelling long distances. Any skateboard can be used for long distance journeys, however, decks designed specifically for long distance trips are typically lower to the ground than regular top mounted skateboards.[1] A tradition of combining these journeys with charitable fund-raising has emerged
Dancing
Dancing is a resurgence of old-school tricks in longboarding that involve a variety of walking and spinning movements on the moving board. Dancing originates from boardwalking in surfing, and has been recently popularized by innovators such as Adam Colton and Adam Stokowski. Dancing boards are typically longer in order to provide a larger platform for walking and turning tricks, sometimes in excess of 60 inches in length.
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Sliding
Sliding is the most effective braking technique for downhill skateboarders. It allows a skater to reduce his speed much more quickly than footbraking, but requires a wider area depending on his ability to control the slide. It has also evolved into its own discipline of skateboarding, with riders performing various tricks and rotations while sliding. Slides can be done standing upright or with one or two hands placed on the ground to allow the rider to execute technical slides in any number of positions. When performing hands-down slides, protective slide gloves must be worn. These gloves can be purchased or made at home. They are usually leather gloves with sliding pucks made of hard, low-friction plastics such as UHMWPE, Corian, or Delrin attached by velcro or glue. You can also buy the gloves online or at your local skate shop. Some gloves from companies such as Sector 9, Landyachtz, and Loaded are most popular with pro longboarders. Slides can also be performed on banks and transitions in a skate park. When a skater slides to a complete stop, it is called a shutdown slide. A drift that reduces the rider's speed without bringing him to a complete stop is called a speed check. When the board rotates more than 90 degrees and then returns to its original position over the course of the slide it is called a pendulum. There are myriad more technical and challenging slides that can be done such as laybacks, pressure spins, 5-0 slides, and stand-up rotations. One of the most popular slide and most basic hands-down slide is called the Coleman. The Coleman slide is the most popular slide used to come to a complete stop, as you do a complete 180 degree turn with one hand on the ground. It was made popular by a man named Cliff Coleman.
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Street Luge & Buttboarding
This is when you lay down and haul ass. It's not really skating, but relates indirectly due to sharing trucks, wheels, and the like.
Skogging
Skogging is the alternating use of both legs while pushing a longboard or a shortboard for fun and fitness alternating lead foot so that either stance, goofy or regular stance can be attained while pumping, pushing and carving. Skogging is generally done along long flat sections of terrain where pushing with only one foot would be overly tiresome and works well in conjunction with board walking "tricks". The word "skogging" is a portmanteau of the words skateboarding and jogging. Skogging is a concept conceived and refined by Chris Yandall [6].
