You’ve probably seen them. You’ve probably thought to yourself, ‘what is a grown man doing riding a skateboard down the street?’ Welcome back the longboard, the terrestrial cousin to the surfboard, a toy that grew up and got a mortgage. A skateboard might be seen as a young person’s tool to get around – and it is pretty useful if you have the skills to pull tricks on it, and might even get you from one block to another faster than if you were in a car – assuming that all of the GRAND RAPIDS — Jonathan Kumar has gotten used to longboarding to his office downtown for the past year. For him, riding his board — which is similar to a skateboard with a longer deck and bigger wheels — is a convenient form of transportation. BOSTON -- People who skateboard using a type of board called a longboard may be at greater risk for severe injuries than those who use regular skateboards, a new study suggests. The study included information from 824 people (whose average age was 19) who Thanks to three major factors, motorized skateboards are enjoying a renaissance. Trend #1: The Popularity of Longboarding Riding a longboard downhill (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In the simplest terms, a longboard is a skateboard designed for traveling It's really calming for me." One of the many recent converts fueling longboarding's growing popularity, Yee represents a population that once rarely participated in skateboarding -- females. Now, however, young women and girls increasingly are becoming .
Bored and browsing the depths of YouTube, Schueller stumbled upon a video in the website’s sidebar titled “Go Longboard 2009.” A compilation posted by Original Skateboards, it featured more than seven minutes of pure shredding. Schueller was hooked. He commutes on four wheels, but never gets stuck in traffic. "I've basically been commuting by skateboard, longboard, since around 2000," said Peters. One way from his office in Pioneer Square to his home in Lake Forest Park is 15 miles, and takes him 80 Collins, Colorado, he remembers screwing roller-skate wheels into pieces of wood because he couldn't afford to buy a board. Today the former F-14 Tomcat pilot and graduate of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School makes top of the line longboards. They are the New Yorkers who take to the boulevards on longboard skateboards, ride on mopeds and take a page from their Razor scooter-riding kids by hopping onto one built for adults. These offbeat travel options let them ditch the subway and zip to their .
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