Category: skateboarding

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A short skate vid

Shot this video today, after procuring a little Zip Zinger board, from Krooked. It’s actually a fun board to ride, and the 55mm soft and resilient OJ wheels allow it to roll smoothly over nearly everything. Lots of fun.

This particular Zip Zinger is 8″ wide with a 14″ wheelbase. Its dimensions are pretty much the same as a typical newschool board, but the shape is reminiscent of boards from the mid-1970s. With the narrow Indy 101 trucks and 1/4″ risers, it really kind of feels like one of those boards (but better, since it has concave and isn’t solid oak).

It is taking a bit of time to get used to this board, but it’s fun.

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GoPro Test

Set up a GoPro mount on the nose of my Gravity Kalai longboard. Testing various file conversion and upload settings. This one was originally a 720p HD MPEG4 file,  then converted to a .MOV HD file that was still over 150 megs in size, then uploaded to Youtube for Flash conversion. Quality is still really pretty good, but it should be as the original file was damned big for about a 1.5 minute run!

Click the settings button and pick 720 HD for the higher quality view. The original MPEG4 file looks fantastic, and with the GoPro plugged directly into my 47″ HD television it’s even more awesome.

This version looks best if you click through to Youtube, and view it in the “Large Viewer” in HD.