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Speedboarding

RothOHNOESRothOHNOES
edited July 2008 in Everything Else
So I was listening to the Osamu Tezuka episode (ya I'm lazy. I just kinda take copious amounts of GeekNights episodes and listen to them from a large bank... instead of actually keeping up to date with them) and Rym and Scotts enthusiasm for F1 piqued my interest. I happen to be a very avid longboarder, but specifically do a lot of speedboarding (going as fast as you can down a road on a longboard). I thought that Rym, Scott, or anyone who is interested in the idea and concepts behind racing, might get a kick out of speedboarding. The aerodynamics and physics of downhill longboarding is quite involved and maybe some would like to learn more. If you would like to know anything about speedboarding, ask away. I also have the hope that maybe I can even find a person or two that speedboard or are into longboarding?

Here are some good videos to give you a taste of what a lot of it is about. The first is a video of the world class race course, Maryhill. The speed on Maryhill tops at about 80-85km/h.
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This video is of some guys going down a road near Vernon, BC called Silverstar. The road tops at about 90 km/h, but they were apparently hitting about 85 that day.
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Comments

  • AprecheApreche
    That's pretty cool, but I can't even skateboard on a level surface.
  • RothOHNOESRothOHNOES
    Haha no problem. Just thought I'd bring it up as a point of interest. I bet you cant drive F1 either. :P
  • AprecheApreche
    Haha no problem. Just thought I'd bring it up as a point of interest. I bet you cant drive F1 either. :P
    Not yet.
  • onewildonewild
    edited July 2008
    I have a question for all you Non-British F1 fans out there. What do you think of Lewis Hamilton? I ask because two people I know say they hate him and that he has ruined F1 and that they preferred the Micheal Schumacher years because at least then the sport wasn't just all about the talented British person.
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    I have a question for all you Non-British F1 fans out there. What do you think of Lewis Hamilton? I ask because two people I know say they hate him and that he has ruined F1 and that they preferred the Micheal Schumacher years because at least then the sport wasn't just all about the talented British person.
    Instead it was about the talented German with the superior technology. I like F1, I enjoy watching it when I do, however, I haven't watched a race in ages. As for Hamilton, I recall him being good, and not that arrogant.
  • AprecheApreche
    Hamilton isn't as good a driver as Schumacher, but I think it's obvious he's a better human being.
  • AlanAlan
    Though not speed boarding I would love to try street luge. The price of the board on the other hand being $500 - $1,800 and the roads being very bad around here is the reason I decided not to.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    edited July 2008
    Why speed board when you can drift bicycles?
    Edit: CURSE YOU YOUTUBE! WHY WONT YOU EMBED!!!

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  • SailSail
    edited July 2008
    I'm on a longboard pretty often, especially during the summer. But I pretty much just do it for fun or transportation, I couldn't do what they do.

    [Edit] This is what I meant.
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  • RothOHNOESRothOHNOES
    Though not speed boarding I would love to try street luge. The price of the board on the other hand being $500 - $1,800 and the roads being very bad around here is the reason I decided not to.
    Ah street luge! I know plenty of guys who street luge and a bunch of guys that ice luge. It looks like a lot of fun, but so much more dangerous than speedboarding actually. A street luge goes to higher speeds and if you bail, you also have a big apparatus following you and could hurt you in numerous ways should the wild luge make contact with you. In the same way that downhill biking is more dangerous than speedboarding. Bikes hurt when they land on you, especially when you do so at high speeds.
    I'm on a longboard pretty often, especially during the summer. But I pretty much just do it for fun or transportation, I could what they do.
    Sweet stuff. What kind of board are you riding?
    Why speed board when you can drift bicycles?
    Haha although that is pretty sweet, you can do the same type of thing longboarding! Drifting is an essential race technique and then there is sliding. Sliding is so much fun. It's essentially making tricks out of the motion of drifting and learning how to control your board after you've made your wheels lose traction.

    Check out some of the road and pathway shots to see what I mean by drifting (this is the crew I skate with! :D).


    And this is one of the world's top rated sliders. Some amazing sliding here.
  • CramitCramit
    Haha no problem. Just thought I'd bring it up as a point of interest. I bet you cant drive F1 either. :P
    Not yet.
    It is much harder then it looks...and it doesn't look easy at all. Richard Hammond has driven many cars while hosting Top Gear and this is him in Renaults F1 car.


    And the Stig behind the wheel
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