Globe Bantam

Credit to the man behind the camera

Sorry i forgot to include my mentor, i told him that i'd give him some of the credit, so here it is, my mentor Mr. Colton .S helped  me today by giving me pointers, and gave steps to procedures to the very basics of snowboarding & he also pointed out some of the numerous mistakes that I made haha... Sooo thanks Colton!

When the board meets the snow

So i just came back from springhill and it turns out that I'm not as good as I thought I was, in fact worse. I'm still feeling the pains of some of the rookie mistakes I made, and I'm sure your gonna see some of it on the videos that were taken. I defiantly know now that snowboarding behind a snowmobile and and snowboarding downhill are two completely different ball games. I find I enjoy being behind a snowmobile more because its ALOT easyer to pick up, and for the record don't compare longboarding to snowboarding. Longboarding acquires force and precision meanwhile snowboarding is touchy and even more precision is involve, so lesson learned kids if you can longboard that doesn't mean you can automatically snowboard or viscera. Hope to give you pics & vids soon and I'll keep you posted :-).

LET THE ANTICIPATION BEGIN

Well spring hill is supposed to open Dec. 14 which is good because then i can start working on my snowboarding skills with my mentor, Colton .S, although i could have bought a season pass already i didn't because the prices were outrageous so i'm just gonna see what they have for like a week pass or something. Normally i snowboard behind my snowmobile but the battery is dead and we need to replace it so hopefully that will get done soon so i can work on my skills and maybe send you guys some pics and vids of my progress.

If you have any questions about the blog feel free to ask and I will answer to the best of my abilities

Weekends

Just this past weekend I was eagerly waiting to get some nice weather so that I could hop on my board again, so I got my stuff and hit the road. Not long after I found my board soaked in a college of slush & water. Folks if your planning on trying longboarding out note that you should not use your board in wet  conditions, because this will deteriorate the quality of your grip tape, rust your trucks & bearrings among other things as well. If you do choose to go out in wet conditions, (which is great for sliding) make sure to thoroughlly wipe down THE ENTIRE BOARD! Afterwards it would be best to clean your bearrings just to keep em in tip top shape. Later on I will be explaining more about the parts of a board and how to clean your bearrings, so good day ta y'all and i'll keep ya posted.

Longboards

Longboard Season

I started longboarding just this past summer on my brothers longboard, but once I took a liking to the sport I purchased a board of my own. Over the coarse of the past summer I was teaching myself the basics of longboarding such as carving, cruzing etc. Once I tackled all that jazz, I began leaning some of the more simple longboard tricks such as the early grab, Coleman side, a variation of other hands on slides, both the toe and heal side 180 and a couple types of dancing. Although I managed to complete a fair amount of longboard tricks in my first season many of these tricks are quit similar. In longboarding the tricks are kind of split into families, and what I did in my starting year was I found some simple starter tricks and I worked my way up the family of tricks unil I complete them all. In this coming longboard season I hope to complete many different verities of kick flips which I didn't quit get to in this past season. So until then I hope to work on my snowboarding skills and keep you posted about my progress.

Greetings

Hi my name is Lukas Schroeder, I will be recording my progress and giving other information for my passion project. It will be mainly based on snowboarding but I also may include a bit from my first longboarding season from the past summer. During this project I hope to learn transitions and  tricks both from my mentor and other sources off the Internet. This is not my first snowboarding season but I still have very little experience therefore there is much to learn. I also hope to give you more information over the coarse of this project like my progress, tricks that I will be learning, hopefully pictures and possibly even videos, my materials, mentors, locations & more.