Ha ha ha! yes, I definitely have gone through my share of shoes! I started using my board’s brake more often because my messed up back forced me to upgrade from my $40 Vans to $110 Frye’s. Also, being a life-long skater, I’m used to going through shoes like water.
Gear Aid Freesole. It’s a little messy, but will make your shoes go a lot farther. World’s better than shoe-goo. You can also throw some rice on the surface when it’s partially dry to create tread.
When you’re pushing, you learn a lot about control and balance on one foot. It’s probably one of the harder things to learn. With e-boards, you never have to put your foot on the ground.
alright weather is good, new gopro is here, going for a ride tomoroow and record it. Would you like and overlay with speed etc. Guess I could manage that with strava data and mash it together with virb software, hevn’t done it before but I can mayby figure it out.
Just finished the recording. Strava bugged out on me, and apparently I bent the gopro mount and 30% of the view is my side of the helmet. I will upload it as a raw run I guess. I have to review the footage mayby I can salvage anything from it.
I will redo a run again on the weekend. Sadly nit with a amazing view like this one. Had to include the mountains as a swiss
good points.
If I have to stop or loose speed very suddenly I will mostly slide or speed check. When I can forsee the neded loss of speed I do a mixture of air breaking and foot braking. Hardly touch the remote over 50.
How much time it toock to learn? Well you are never done, there ar still speeds, corners and ways you are uncomfortable with so I would say something around 100-200 hours of practice for the basics.
Allright there we go. The first Video.
I will only put this here for fun. I realised so many mistakes in order to do things as spontanious like this. So loock at it as a fun video to watch, because It won’t be very usefull as anything else. Also I will chose a lot faster rides for the future.
You should do at least one video from the viewpoint of someone following behind you, so you can really demonstrate what you are talking about with stances, and so you can show what you think right and wrong looks like on an esk8. You could also script out what you want to say and show what you want concisely, and edit out any info you didn’t mean to include in the final cut of the video.
Hey, it is in Canton Bern, switzerland, are of Münsingen/Tägertschi to be exact. And yeah you are right, I need a follow man. Hard to find an e-k8ter that also donwhills. But I may got one for slower speeds
and definetly need to script out what I awant to talk about. Good tipps. You from switzerland ? If so you need to join our whatsapp group + group rides
@michichopf I have one of these for my GoPro …cuts wind to almost zero and all you hear is the ambient noise. We should be able to hear you very clear.
Well, normal ride, everything fine. Went home. ate lunch. Turned board back on and only one motor spins very slowly and with a lot of noise. was frustrated and left it in the corner, an hour later tunred it back on. Both motors work normally for 5 seconds then back to only one. Sadly i cannot do anything here since I have no tools. Need to head back home to see whats up, or at least provide poeple with requested information in order to get help
sad. but you ggot an e-board convention in germany, at least I read somewhere. Mayby we will meet there one day