Black Longboard Blog
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Explore the blog for articles on longboards, skateboarding, tips for beginners and advanced skateboarders and more! Welcome to BLACK LONGBOARDS, where high performance meets craftsmanship. Our boards are designed and tested in Arizona. Our designs are based on functionality, ridability, and durability.
Black Longboard Blog
2y ago
Finding the best places to longboard can be quite the hassle depending on your location and how far you’re willing to go to have a one-of-a-kind longboarding experience. But for those of you willing to go the distance, we have gathered a number of awesome locations that are prime places to experience longboarding. Now obviously, you can find great places to longboard in every state and probably even every town, but we collected some data to bring you some of the best places to longboard according to popularity polls and usage information. So let’s get into it and see what some of the top place ..read more
Black Longboard Blog
2y ago
The Liberator is the first of our new Downhill/Freeride decks we are releasing.
We have been working on this model for several years and have been through many proto's through the process. Check out the SPEC'S:
Length - 37.5"
Width - 10"
Wheel Base - 27, 27.5, 28"
Drop - 0.375"
Construction - BCG Spine
Weight - 4.8 lbs
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Black Longboard Blog
2y ago
Let me tell you a little bit about Black's Longboard Construction. We have this little hidden secret within each of our DH/FR decks called the BCG SPINE!! Do you know how long it took to come out with something really unique in the Longboard World? There are only so many ways to build a longboard deck right? WRONG! That's why longboarding is such an interesting sport. You can do something other than just change the graphic on the bottom of a street deck to make it different. Instead, you can change the shape, design, concave, contour, drop, drop-thru, rocker, mounting, kicks, ped ..read more
Black Longboard Blog
2y ago
We are excited to offer RAD Wheels with our new Graphic DH/FR Series. With each complete you will be able to choose from the Advantage, or the Release crown core wheels in both Duro's. At Black we want to offer our customers the best components with our completes. RAD offers great wheels. Caliber offers great Trucks. And Seismic offers great Tekton bearings. These can all be found on our highly anticipated and newly constructed decks that we will be releasing. You will also find that the price of these amazing completes will be VERY competitive with companies who offer a Canadian Maple deck w ..read more
Black Longboard Blog
2y ago
Ready, set, wait.... Over the next few months we are going to be re- releasing our line up of cruiser/carvers in our new Graphic Series, after the debut of our DH/FR Decks. The New Graphic Series was inspired by you, our customers. Some common feedback we would receive from our followers was that they loved the quality and look of our Classic Series (which had the finish of a show car over a high quality wood species of your choice) , but the draw back was the price. Well we listened , and you were correct. We needed to figure out how to get our man hours and cure tim ..read more