Placed as far forward as possible, this Tnr block allows the foot to be right over the front truck (in this case a Radikal) whilst preventing 'foot creep' over a comparatively short nose. The block is a simple design, beautifully engineered and one that will accomodate both goofy and regular riders....

Good call TK. http://slalomskateboarder.com/Boards/RoeRacing/SCamberBaseXmas.jpg http://slalomskateboarder.com/Trucks/Radikal/DragonsTailRear01.jpg The first image does not show it too well, but the rear Radikal is wedged with a 12 degree Swiss MDF block (fat side to tail), on top of which I've adde...

Wedge the hell out of the back truck, wind it up and watch it go.

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Boards/3dm/3dm-plank2.jpg http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Boards/Turner/Turner_GS.jpg I'd like to try this full-tailed 3dm plank shape using the construcion technique of the early GS Hybrid and fine tuned with a bit of PPS's C Block Kit. In the interim, how is th...

http://64.49.221.210/pix/samg/102_0213_IMG.JPG http://64.49.221.210/pix/samg/102_0212_IMG.JPG FibreFlex have always had a glowing slalom history that has been kept in the public eye in recent years by team members Siale, Attila, Sharon Sidlo and Paul Price to name but a few. With such excellent rid...

http://homepage.mac.com/garyholl/.cv/garyholl/Sites/.Pictures/Gary's%20Sponsors/HOLL28.25_1.JPG-thumb_140_105.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/garyholl/.cv/garyholl/Sites/.Pictures/Gary's%20Sponsors/HOLL31_1.JPG-thumb_140_105.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/garyholl/.cv/garyholl/Sites/.Pictures/Gary's%20Spo...

http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Contests/Greuningen/ChrisHart.JPG http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Contests/Greuningen/Anastasia.JPG http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Contests/Greuningen/Leon.JPG Airflow riders Chris Hart and Nastasja Wolfensberger at Greuningen with the UK's Leon Clark on the A...

Reckon as the thighs might look something a little bit like these: http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Contests/Greuningen/Leon.JPG http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Contests/Greuningen/JimNutsack.JPG http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/Contests/Greuningen/Paul%20Price.JPG http://www.slalomskateboarder....

Contrary to the avatar, Jani does actually ride his board:



But to quote Nastasja from Airflow: "Some people only need one run."

In addition, would it be possible to include details of the typical recommended wheelbase for each deck? For example, There are little clues as to the design purpose between the Holl 31" and the Bullet. Both look good, but would one be better suited to 'hybrid' or short-spaced GS than another? ...an...

Chris Stepanek wrote:GS s-camber anyone???

Chris, Bullet PS GS mild S-Camber. Count me in!

Well spotted Glen! The deck is one of Gareth's pre production Crossfires with the kevlar base and came with the double drilling. Because the board is so stiff for my weight (10 stone) I used the outer holes in order to get a bit of compliance, but also to have a wheelbase around 17 1/2 inches. These...

Having seen various slalom kicktails in use at Grueningen to good effect, I thought I'd pre-empt Gareth's S-Camber design and knock one up myself. My main interest was not so much to increase pump leverage, but more a way of giving a rapid foot locator to the pushing rear foot. In such a way the kic...

Corky,

I thought you did too darn well for a sick man. Next year I'm relying on a pan-European epidemic to boost my position.

...and I'll start buying the Guardian newspaper to see the results printed troothfully to, right Jon?

If the website is still in the development stage, then one feature that might be included would be the capacity to overlay the line-drawings of each deck with another. If the front truck mounting point was used as a centre marker, then a potential customer could compare and contrast foot spacing dis...

Jon, Jim Slater swears by the wider version of these trucks. Jim 'Nutsack' covets and recommends them too. Both guys demonstrate how tight UK slalom should be done, and having seen what Luca's running at Grunigen it pretty soon becomes clear that some of the older products have a geometry better sui...

Checked out Farlow's http://www.farlows.co.uk/ this am for JR Hartley's tome on Z-Flex and the Dogtown phenomenon. No sign. They did, however, offer me a dual-purpose dog that could both ollie and carve. Down boy.

I ran one of the Kevlar-based pre-production CrossFires on the flat at Hyde Park, following Paul Price's Thursday markings as closely as was viable (6-7ft mixed offset). At the end of the couse I put eight cones straight, five feet each apart in order to test the TS capacity of this deck. The CrossF...

For UK skaters thinking about heading on down to Antibes for the last rays of Summer, Easyjet.com are currently offering flights to Nice for around £100 if you head out on the Friday (19 Sept) from Gatwick and return Sunday (21 Sept) evening. Nice is about 12km from Antibes, apparently. <font size=-...

The Swiss boards do have a cambered flex similar to the arched back of a hissing cat. With a comparatively soft flex to the American equivalent, there is greater inversion when the deck is down-weighted in pump and so approaches a 'bottoming out' situation. This greater flex and liveliness is in par...

Leo, it's best that I answer in place of Jani as regards the above featured boards (it's a posession thing). The Indiana was set up to do the Eastbourne offset slalom course (6-8ft) set by Clingfilm, with a single skyhook from http://www.lushlongboards.com used as a footblock. If you look at the dir...