Learning to Boardslide: Update
Not too long I decided that the first “learning to” project I was going to attempt was learning to boardslide. Well, it’s been a while since I last practiced on a rail, so last night I gave it another go. I think I spent around an hour, and video’d some of my progress towards the [...]
Xscape Castleford – Why I Like It So Much
It’s been a while since I’ve been boarding at Castleford and I’m looking forward to going back. So why do I like it so much? Well, when it comes to freestyle I think Xscape Castleford has a lot to offer. I haven’t been to ‘loads’ of snowboard parks but I have been to a few; [...]
Afterbang.co.uk Coming Soon…
A quick note to say that afterbang.co.uk is coming soon. I’m currently running this blog purely from blogger – but soon there will be an entire afterbang site. My intention is to make the content more accessible: providing a frequent flow of afterbang-style blogging, and adding a ‘site’ around it. My good friend Mal has [...]
Dropping-In For The First Time
Well, the short video of the rollerblader slamming seemed quite popular – so I thought it would be worthwhile posting something similar: Grant’s first ever attempt to drop-in on a skateboard. For those of you that don’t know, Grant is one of my good friends; I work with him and we snowboard together with our [...]
Review: Skateboard Blogs
I thought it might be interesting to have a look around for other skateboarding blogs (I’m doing the same for snowboarding too) and note what I found… Before I start it’s worth mentioning that this was merely a ‘quick look’ using our good friend google: a couple of hours or so surfing around, searching for [...]
Inline Skater Bails
I had the camera at the Exhibition Skate Park (Newcastle) yesterday and by chance, caught a rollerblader slam pretty hard. The guy took a look at the footage, thought it was pretty funny and recommended that I put it on the web… so here it is By the way, I don’t know any of the [...]
Currently Working On…
The weather over the long bank holiday has been good – which gave me the chance to get quite a bit of skating in. Here are the three basic tricks that I’m currently working on: Tailstall Rock to fakie Rock and roll I’m having questionable success with the Rock and Roll, but the other two [...]
DVD Review: Rider's Ed
Rider’s Ed: Snowboarding Instructional Video I’ve been intending to do this review for a while, so here goes. Rider’s Ed is an instructional DVD for snowboarding. The version that I have seen actually includes two videos: “Learn to Snowboard” and “Style, Park & Pipe”. Furthermore, there is a bonus one hour snowboard tuning clinic. Not [...]
