[Really Small] Spine Transfer – Part 2
This is deja vu isn’t it? Well not exaclty. I’ll tell you what’s going on here. We really want to be able to transfer the spine on the mini ramp we ride at R-Kade. Mike figured we should get it down on the really small ramp first, then take it to the larger mini ramp… [...]
[Really Small] Spine Transfer
A week ago while skating at Redcar, Mike got it in his head that he wanted to learn how to transfer over the spine on the mini ramp. We talked about maybe going for a “rock over” style manouver, hooking the front wheels over first followed by the back wheels; we also talked about trying [...]
Skate Action From Last Week
[Redcar Session 2] We hit Redcar twice last week: Saturday morning and then a mid-week session on Wednesday evening. We wanted to fit the Wednesday evening session in because we knew we weren’t able to go at the weekend as we were all away. As it turned out, the mid-week session was really good. The [...]
R-Kade Skatepark, Redcar – Session 1
Mike, James and I were at the R-Kade Skatepark in Redcar, last Saturday morning. We did the 2-hour slot from 10 ’till 12, taking some footage over the last 45 minutes or so. This was pretty much James’ first time in a skatepark – and I was well impressed when he dropped in on a [...]
Rider Profiles – Coming Soon
After skating at a couple of different parks I’ve decided that I’d like to start a new feature on Afterbang – Rider Profiles. A profile would include information about the rider, questions with answers, maybe a podcast, maybe some pictures and most importantly, some video. Of course I’d like to do this with both snowboarding [...]
