This video shows  to practicing longboard in the city of Medellin, palmas avenue, in this video also summarizes the most impressive outstanding high-level  made on the weekend.

Second report

To better understand  that it is a longboard, I will interview these two people. Angie and Harlinson.

Libardo: What is a longboard?

Harlinson: We could say in a very simple definition, a longboard is a skateboard longer than usual. But we should not stay with the simple definition, but we must understand the longboard as a street culture, or another way of understanding urban sport skateboarding.

Libardo:  Angie, where was longboard born?

Angie: The longboard was born in Oahu, Hawaii, during the fifties.

Libardo: Why  longboard  was born?

Harlinson:  For the Surfer groups, bored on days without waves, flooded the streets with their gadgets, put wheels on the longboards and took to the streets.

Libardo: Longboarding is similar to skateboarding. What’s the fundamental difference?

Angie: If they have similarities but Long boards are a bit faster and smoother to ride so are primarily used only as transportation, but they can also are used in slalom skating

Libardo: Is longboarding is an activity only for men or for women too?

Harlinson: Initially men, but some time in Spain began to practice the sports and today there is longboarding for girls, called LONGBOARD GIRL.

Libardo: What protection should be used to practice the longboard?

Angie: You must wear a helmet for the head, shin guards, gloves and elbow pads. It would be very dangerous not to use this type of protection.

Libardo: Harlinson, why is it good for people to practice longboard?

Harlinson: They experience feelings of high speed when descending steep roads, adrenaline rush, shared with friends having a good time with them. It's good for those who like the danger and speed.

Libardo: Do many accidents occur in this sport?

Angie: Well yes and because is this there is the need for protection and the need to practice it on roads where there are no cars or low traffic flow.

Libardo: You have ever practiced this sport?

Harlinson:  I don't, I think it's very dangerous.
Life may be endangered.

Libardo: Could you tell us wich are the parts of longboard?

Angie: Trucks are the metal turning mechanism that attach the longboard wheels to the deck. The parts of trucks are:

1. The axis, connecting the two wheels.

2. The base of the shaft on the pivot shaft. It is attached it to the board.

3. The bushings are two tires that help the shaft back to its original position.

4. The washers, also two, keep the bushings in place.

5. The kingpin is the bolt that attaches the whole. Assembly together.

Also the longboard should be between 84 and 150 cm long. And the tires are made of special rubber that absorbs shock

Libardo: Well colleagues, now let's see if you remember the parts of the board.

Please say every part of the trucks longboard:

first report

First report  

Title: longboard  

Members of the group

LIBARDO PATERNINA SUAREZ

JULIANA COSME GOMEZ

HARLINSON JAVIER OCAMPO GUARNIZO

ANGIE KATHERINE ARREDONDO 

Table of contents

1.       Dimensions

2.       equipment & protection

2.1   Decks

2.2   Trucks

2.3   Bushings

2.4   Bearings

2.5   Wheels

2.6   Slide Gloves

3.       difference between skateboarding and Longboard

what you are going to do?

It is thinking to do an interview in which two members will be interviewers and others two interviewees as well as a dynamic in which the public will have the opportunity to put parts of the table in their respective places.

Longboard Pintails

Pintails are type of longboard taht permit looser trucks and larger wheels which are better suited for carving or a "surfy" feel where as drop decks and drop throughs allow the rider to be closer to the ground, hence a lower center of gravity which allows these boards to support more downhill riding. 

Dimensions of the longboard

Most longboards measure 84 to 150 centimetres (33 to 59 in). There are several shapes of longboards, such as pintails, flat-nose riders, drop through decks, drop decks and boards with the same shape of a standard skateboard. Pintails permit looser trucks and larger wheels which are better suited for carving or a "surfy" feel where as drop decks and drop throughs allow the rider to be closer to the ground, hence a lower center of gravity which allows these boards to support more downhill riding. Mid-length boards, 94 to 127 centimetres (37 to 50 in) are the most versatile. Their greater weight and bulk makes them less suitable for many skateboarding tricks, but contributes to a fluid motion by providing more momentum. The longboard's design allows for big turns or quick short carves similar to the motions of surfers or snowboarders.

The record for the longest distance travelled on a longboard was set by David Cornthwaite in 2006 when he skated 3,638 miles (5,820 km) from Perth to Brisbane across Australia.

History of longboarding

A Brief History of Longboarding

The sport of long-boarding was born, unsurprisingly, in Oahu, Hawaii. When the waves weren't curling, a few enterprising surfers decided to put a board on wheels to stay gnarly. In its infancy, this activity was called "side-walk surfing," and was characterized by fluid movements and fast carving. The surfers went so far as to drag their hands on the concrete, imitating the feel of a wave. This motion is still in use by long-boarders, but for different reasons; mainly sliding. After a few years of bumpy and frequently painful rides, people decided that long-boarding was dangerous and risky, possibly because early boards were crude and lacked the shocks and urethane wheels of modern boards.

A couple of decades later, in the early 70's, boarding was reborn and soon became vastly popular. By the 80's boarding (mostly short-board skate-boarding) had become associated with rule-breaking and, to some extent, counter-culture in general. This development certainly aggravated the die-hard boarders of yore, but they kept cruising and passed on the real soul of long-boarding to future generations. In the past decade, skate-boarding has mostly lost its negative associations, and long-boarding has grown increasingly in popularity and acceptance.

Longboard Girls