Choose Your Mountain Board

At present there is variety of mountain boards are available in the market that you can choose. Many people find it difficult as there no complete information available in the market. Now just one internet connection can make your all purchase stuff easy, many online sport shopping sites offer huge basket of mountain boards with full of specification with some discount offer on almost every product. Here I will explain you many things about mountain board that can help you buying your best one.

Very important factor is weighing capacity of mountain board. Many boards are having such weight limitation so you make sure you are buying within your weight limit.

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Another criterion is that you should think before buying is where you are planning to take yourself for skateboarding. You want to sizzle in skate parks or mountain boarding parks or you just want to try some tricks. If you want to ride yourself that can rails and ramps with some tricks then I would suggest you for freestyle board, which weighing lighter and sized small.

Riding freestyle is not your type? Are you willing to go to grass hills, muddy roads or something like that, if this goes in your mind then you should try for such mountain board which is specially designed for free riding. Such boards are bit longer and heavy. They have bit bigger wheels which helps you roll over rough base.

Another option is medium size mountain board which is all in one pack. Many people sometimes prefer riding in park and sometimes on hills, ramps. They want such a multipurpose mountain board that can suitable for all of these. Such medium sized boards are made for all the rides and tricks.

If you are interested in buying online then you can find out lots of varieties with detailed specification of each of them. Otherwise you just need to visit the store, check out for the boards you are looking for and you like it. As we discussed above you must consider your riding area and your weight before going for any mountain boards. I just want you select such mountain board which worth your $$$.

It’s About Tony Hawk – Pro Skater

Tony Hawk - Skateboarding hero

Tony Hawk - Skateboarding hero, a top level skateboarding champion across the globe and he is only skater who is on the top skateboarders list when he was around 16-17 years old. Till today he won more than 70 skateboarding championships. Along with a successful bunch of skateboarding videos and video games, he also owns a skateboarding company, Bird House. Areas where people having very less earning, in such areas from Tony Hawk foundation various grants and technical support guidance is given to newbie’s.

Tony’s amazing tricks and stunts made most popular skateboarders and increased his popularity to the sky. 900 is the amazing trick came from him where 2 and a half turns in the air taken by skater almost at 900 degrees. In 1999 X Games he completed this trick and after this successful stint he retired from the X Games. Though he retired from competition but skater is always a skater. He gives skateboarding tricks and tips and invent new tricks and moves at his warehouse. In 2002 he started extreme game sports tour with the name Tony Hawk's Boom Boom HuckJam. He appears on radio station Sirius XM satellite as a host for weekly radio show.

Along with successful skater tag in his name he also a father of 3 boys. Riley, Spencer & Keegan where Riley is from Cindy Dunbar who was his first wife continued to 1994 and Spencer & Keegan from Erin Lee. After having a divorce with Erin Lee in 2004 he married to Lhotse Merriam in 2006 January. The couple has a daughter in 2008, named Kadence.

Tony’s skateboarding tricks Inventions – 

1)   Fakie-to-fronside rock

2)   Backside Varial

3)   Shove-It Rock'n Roll

4)   Airwalk-To-Fakie

5)   Fingerflip Backside Air

6)   Frontside Hurricane
7)   Varial 540
8)   900

9)   Shove-it Fakie Feeble Grind

10) Cab Lipslide

Along with sportsman and he also appeared in some Hollywood movies. He also has decent career as an actor. He played a role in “Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol”, “Gleaming the Cube.”, “Jackass: The Movie”, he has also voiced in animated movie “Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage”.

How To Do Mountainboarding In Winters?

To all the people who love Mountainboarding read to know how you can enjoy the Mountainboarding in the winters also. The Mountainboarding is considered as the summer sport. For having excellent Mountainboarding experience it is nice to have a sunny day with the gentle breeze to keep cool, few friends, one girlfriend to show off!,  and definitely the nice hill which offers some jumps, some obstacles to tackle such that it becomes adventurous. While this can easily happen in the fair bit during the summer months and even during the spring time, in autumn as well but during winter it is no so possible because in winters in Europe, most of the time it involves rain and just a little warmth. This result the ground or the hills become boggy, slippery and weather is too cold.

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So Mountainboarding in winters is for those dedicated and passionate hardcore riders who will consider going out and pursuing their beloved sport of Mountainboarding during winter months. There are only two options available. 

The first option is to move indoors. The second option  is to do the extreme sport of Mountainboarding in the woods.

When you move indoors there are a couple of things which are involved such as finding bigger farm, building ramps jumps etc. there are many indoor skate parks which offer your chance to enjoy this extreme sport. But the skate park skateboarding is a different concept as it has a different style of riding and the obstacles which are offered are different. But for people who love the Mountainboarding this will be like a piece of cake as they won’t find the obstacles tricky.

But if you take the second option of riding in the woods than it can be hell of fun in the winters as well. You can continue with adventure of this extreme sport in the woods. The woods typically drain quite well and that is why it becomes an ideal location for Mountainboarding in winters. Trees offer shelter as well. The natural obstacles, different terrain, and loads of fun can be enjoyed at the woods which offers opportunity to do Mountainboarding in winters.