User blog comment:EightOhEight/Skate./@comment-1079585-20100225041631

Longboarding is actually much easier to pick up than skateboarding. The ride is incredibly smooth and quite fast, and you have a much bigger standing platform. On a skateboard you can't have much fun outside of the park, but on a longboard you just need some decently paved mellow hills and you can have a blast. At the moment, I am strongly considering getting a dedicated downhill board (super stiff and stable at high speeds) and going on an insanely badass trip to the Poconos over either spring break or summer vacation. If you just look for downhill longboarding videos on YouTube, it's amazing. Also, one thing that I love about longboarding is the customization. The deck, trucks, and wheels are all extremely important choices. Decks range in size from 60+ inches to 30- inches. They can be super flexy, super stiff, or somewhere in the middle. Trucks can be super turny for carving down the street like a surfer or really tight for downhill bombing. And wheels can be rounded and hard for intense sliding or square-edged and soft for extreme grip.

I love longboarding.