Category / Longboards

Photo of the Loaded Blood Slayer
by Ryan Lee

Loaded Boards – The Blood Slayer Cometh

The chubby blood slayeth’r cameth, shall it taketh hence?

Interested in more about Loaded Boards? Of course you are! Here are the latest Loaded Boards reviews so you can get to know their longboards. Ok, now let’s get to the The Chubby Blood Slayer.

Once upon a time, downhill longboards were bland and boring. They were made of things like wood, wood, some more wood, maybe bamboo, but it turns out that that’s wood too. So a lot of wood. What’s more is that they were ALL made of wood. There was not a single downhill longboard in the world made of anything other than wood.

And then the Chubby Unicorn came.

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by Ryan Lee

Chroma Skateboards – Pilot

Check out Chroma Skateboards, a colorful new skateboard manufacturer!

You know that we always love a new fledgling company- they represent growth and progression in our scene, as they’re the ones filling the gaps where there is a need for a new design. Small companies are also usually run by skateboarders who happened to have the skills and ideas to start a successful company, and that appeals to us, since we at Longboard Envy were just skateboarders who happened to have the skills and ideas to start a magazine. Birds of a feather, you know?

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by Ryan Lee

Writer’s Picks: Rayne – Deep Sea Exorcist

Check out Ryan’s favorite board in his passionate rant about the Rayne Exorcist.

I know I write reviews of various longboarding products for Longboard Envy all the time and it seems that I’m always jumping onto different gear every week- you’d expect me to change preferences all the time as I go through seemingly better gear. Thing is though, I’ve been on the same downhill board for around a year and a half now- I’ve raced, freeridden, and whenever I’m on another board as I’m reviewing it, I always miss the familiar feel of a Rayne Exorcist underneath my feet. I’m so into it in fact, I have two, even though both of them are completely fine. Continue reading →

Arbor Collective boards
by Ryan Lee

Arbor Collective – Crosscut Series

Street-slash your way to… street-slash-ville? Check out the new Arbor Crosscut series!

Hybrid street-slashing is becoming an increasingly popular skate style as both street and downhill scenes start to merge in feature-filled urban environments. Soft freeride wheels on an oversized skateboard has been becoming more and more common to see at both slide jams and city environments alike. It’s a new kind of rush to be able to pull an ollie, some freestyle tricks, and then transition into a banked slope while doing a squat slide.

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by Ryan Lee

Never Summer – Superfreak Insights and Impressions

Get freaky with the Superfreak! Check out the 2017 rendition of Never Summer’s great hybrid double kick.

Never Summer is an excellent snowboard company that entered the longboarding scene, utilizing their mastery of raw materials to start creating durable, efficient longboards for all different purposes. They have a roster of unique, useful shapes with all their respectively unique concaves. Through the years, Never Summer longboards have changed in shape and concave to adapt to the needs of the public, like a good company always should. This year, Never Summer gave us the new 2017 Superfreak to test out and write about, and we’ve got a lot of thoughts about it, and we wanted to share them with you! Continue reading →