Longboarding Is Not Skateboarding

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Longboarding is not skateboarding. A longboard is a type of sports equipment similar to but not the same as a skateboard it is often longer than a skateboard and has a wide variety of shapes. It tends to be faster because of wheel size construction materials and more precise hardware. You won t take a longboard to a skate park and you won t be bombing the hills on a regular skateboard. The first longboard appeared later on when riders tried to transform their skateboard decks making them longer and adding roller skate wheels.

Longboarding is a sport similar to skateboarding. Compared to skateboards longboards are more stable and have more traction and durability due to larger wheel size and lower wheel durometers generally a skateboard comes in between 28 34 inches long and 7 10 inches wide while a longboard has a length of 35 60 inches and a width of 9 10 inches. Skateboarding and longboarding are quite different sports and also have much in common. It uses a longer board bigger wheels and sometimes bigger trucks to let the sport of longboarding include speed freeride slide and slalom.