Heh, two days of rain/snow and I completely lost my technique... At least for the first half dozen or so runs. Spent most of the session just doing 180 colemans again to drill the technique into my subconscious. Being able to do these at a moments notice is much more important than moving on to pendulums and 360s. I did spend about 10 minutes trying to do toeside 360s at the end of the hour. Managed about 250-260 on most attempts before losing too much speed and the wheels regripped (still on the soft wheels). Going to keep on the soft wheels until they cone to uselessness then I'll move back to the Tsunamis. Doubt I'll actually manage any 360s on the softies, but won't stop me trying ;)
Friday, 24 February 2006
Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Cones
meta-date: 20060220 16:21
Spent another hour doing nothing but Colemans to a standstill on soft wheels. A lot of fun, and I'm getting more confident and fluid at laying them down. Playing havoc on the wheels though, noticable coning on the back already and I've only been sliding them for a couple of hours :)
Monday, 20 February 2006
Practise makes perfect
meta-date: 20060220 13:56
Decided to practise with soft wheels rather than moving on to getting the board to pendulum. It's kinda cool how when you have the technique the wheels don't seem to matter. I was running with some 70mm 78A wheels that came as part of a complete today (mainly because they are centre set. I have some 83A kryptos but they're side set so I can't rotate if they cone...). I was expecting to hit tarmac a few times in a hip slide while I got used to the grip; but actually managed to keep it pretty much under control for the whole session with only a couple of bails to my knee pads.
Working on technique now. I've noticed that as I have started to get the hang of the balance I've stopped dropping my rear knee all the way down. Am now trying to get my knee down while still keeping balance and spinning 180 heelside. Hopefully when I've got the technique down with the soft wheels I can move back to the hard wheels and work on getting extra rotation :)
Friday, 17 February 2006
Finally got the Coleman!
meta-date: 20060217 14:22
Woohoo! I finally got my heelside Coleman slide down today. I've been practising an hour a day during my lunch break for the past two weeks. It took me about half an hour to get my toeside shutdown under control; my heelside Coleman shutdown has taken me about 7 hours of solid practise to get under control.
Guess it's time to move onto trying pedulums :)
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Give me an iPod
Warning: link to site with potential scam affilliations ahead. The "Free" iPods on offer at ipods.freepay.com aren't as free as they'd like to make out. But you can get one for a lot less outlay than it'd otherwise cost if you're careful.
Basically you have to sign up for some additional service (along the lines of a rental service subscription, or a dvd club type service). You will have to spend, but you can qualify by spending under 100 quid, which is a damn site less than you'd pay for the iPod.
Some of the promotions have a distinct scam-like whiff, so be careful to read the small print.
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