Surfing Dirt Mountainboarding

Posted By McCarver on December 14, 2011

Been looking for a place where you can go discuss the exciting sport of mountainboarding with people of like minds?  Well whether you are a newbie looking for tutorials on beginner techniques or a pro looking for some bros to ride with the forums at Surfing Dirt have everything you are looking for.

The #1 Mountainboard Forum on the Net

• The Main Forum - The most active forum we have where we talk mountainboarding 24/7
• SurfingDirt Tv - Watch, Share and rate your favorite Mountainboarding Videos
• The Pub - For off-topic chit chat, funny jokes and internet memes

Rider Resources - A collection of resources for any level of mountainboarder

• Ride Spots - Post, review and search for ride spots in your area.
• Session Finder - Promote your next session, competition or any type of mountainboarder gathering
• Newbie Q&A - It’s ok to ask beginner questions here
• How-To Forums -  Mountainboard maintenance, mods, rider tutorials and more

Mountainboard Classifieds - Buy/Sell used mountainboarding/Dirtboarding related gear here. No Commercial Advertisements allowed.

The Crew at Surfing Dirt are looking forward to having you as a member, so stop lurking and sign up today.

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Posted By McCarver on October 10, 2011

click here for the official contest thread

Here we are again, Welcome to 2011 Mountainboarding Pumpkin carving contest. The rules are simple,

1) You must be a member of Surfing Dirt.com

2) Your picture must include you, your board and your pumpkin or the equivalent. It doesn’t matter what your doing, carving, jumping or smashing your pumpkin, but creativity counts.

Winner receives their choice of surfingdirt.com shirts, last years shirt or the new Zombie surfingdirt shirt , that will be posted soon and they will also receive a Cedar Ledge Bad Apples crew shirt.

* * Riding with sharp objects is never a good idea and quite dangerous, the intro picture shows poor judgement on my part .

• Winners will be chosen based on the number of likes received on facebook
• Only people who have befriended www.facebook.com/surfingdirt can vote
• All posted entries will be visible in an official contest album on facebook  
• Posting links to your pic on your profile is ok but tagging is not
• Have fun and be safe!!!

Contest brought to you by our friends at Habitual Suicide

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Posted By McCarver on November 20, 2010

As per the advice  given in the MBS November E-News I decided to take a moment and reflect on the year, to see if it had been a fulfilling.  In a sense it had been, I had already made a few new mountainboard buddies both in real life and in the forums found a couple new spots to ride, purchased a brand new MBS  Pro100, and feel that I really stepped up my riding thanks to a raised confidence level that can only be gained by practice, practice, practice, an occassional dose of zombocom, and of course the tons solid advice from my fellow posters here at SurfingDirt.

  But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that these are the types of reflections are for someone who knows that something good will soon coming to an end, or has already ended, not when there is still a month and half of shreddable goodness still ripe for the picking as is the case with 2010. I for one am not ready to give up on this year yet.

 Still, as more and more of  the whitestuff falls in North America and other parts of the world reports will continue to come in of people putting away their mountainboards and taking their snowboards out for the duration of the coming months. For some of us that isnt an option.

 Whether it be because of lack of snow due to geographical location, lack of funds for purchasing expensive lift tickets, or maybe it’s  just because you are a hardcore dirthead and dont take sNOw for an answer. Whatever the reason, there are plenty of us out there that are Mountainboarding addicts 365 days a year, and we arent ashamed of it.

As mountainboarders we know all about evolution, every time we ride we learn to adapt to our environments in new ways. Always finding new ways to tackle new terrain, and adapting our boards and bodies as needed.

 When its windy we wear a jacket when the ground turns soft we pump up our psi levels, when the soft ground turns to mud we wear goggles, if the wind and rain freezes the mud then we evolve …

….and if we’re broken we mend, and during our down time we read other people’s reports of  shredding and watch tons of  mountainboarding videos mentally preparing ourselves for our next ride whenever that may be.

  Regardless of the reason, and regardless of the season we are what we are, we live to ride our boards, and we rarely care where or with whom as long as we  feel the wind in our face and the hum of the earth under our feet. We are the members of SurfingDirt and we ride 365 days a year, won’t you join us?

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Posted By McCarver on October 30, 2010

BOTTOM view

…it’s an oldschool Mongoose “Varmint” with MBS trucks from the old green comp16 trucks. Despite the fact that it’s heavy as hell he still manages to shred hard and make mountainboarding look easy so if anyone wants to sponsor him let me know.

The first run down was pretty sweet, I hit it alone so Marco could see what we had built. We hit it again together and then decided to session the new quarterpipe at the bottom for a bit. Little did we know that the car had died about the same time we parked it.

After a bit of sessioning we decided to head back up to the top and hit the other ramps, but unfortunately the car wasnt having any of that and refused to start, so we decided we would go ahead and session the quarter for a bit longer….especially seeing as how it was there and we didnt have any other options.

Fortunately about the time the solid sheet of water that they call rain here started to roll in the car had a change of heart and decided to get us out of there. It was a bummer we didnt get to session the upper portion more and get some pics of the other two ramps, but it was great tp session the quarter with my good buddy Marco and the timing of it all couldnt have been better.

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Posted By McCarver on October 2, 2010

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Posted By McCarver on October 2, 2010

well september is over, and im happy with all the posts and photo sumbissions made by everyone. it was hard to narrow down the top 3 photos of each category, but here are the winners of the photo contest put on by Dyad Clothing. first let me say thanks everyone for participating. seeing eveyones photos motivated me to get out and ride even more then usual and its been a lot of fun. if you are one of the winners, just send me a PM on here, or email to dyadclothing@gmail.com of what your address is (and for the 1st place winners in each category, your shirt size as well, and maybe favorite colors?) and i will send out your prize(s).

Thanks again,

Parker Eakin

 Dyad Clothing

winners:

SHRED:
1st- Alan RTH
2nd- Dunstan
3rd- McCarver

CRASH:
1st- AndyD
2nd- Crofty (sick backflip by the way)
3rd- Frollysurfer (your shred photo was close too but i didnt think it was fair to let you win twice, and your crash photo is just sooo good.)

HAVING FUN:
1st- PBJ
2nd- Fenboy (i know this was your shredding photo, but it made me laugh and riding with pants half down is more of having fun rather then shredding.)
3rd- BDirthead

congrats to everyone. keep on shreddin, crashin (if your not crashing, your not trying hard enough), and havin fun cuz if youre not having fun, youre not doing it right.

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Posted By McCarver on September 29, 2010

Spectators were treated to the aerial skills of US Pro mountainboarding team the DirtstarArmy out of Salt Lake City, Utah, The One5 Crew as well as many other recognized names in the sport.

This years Fall Classic also marked the return of legendary rider Patrick PT Thomas to the rankings as he took second in boardercross as well as third in place in the Masters category for freestyle.

Sponsors included DSA, HillBilly protection, Powerbar, Altitude Sickness, Dyad, just to name a few.

For a complete list of results click HERE

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Posted By McCarver on September 19, 2010

….and inside it I found a lot of this:

But after a little digging I am happy to report that the box also contained all this:

….a perfectly dissected TomKirkman Pro100 straight from the MBS headquarters in Colorado Springs.

Luckily I inspected all the bags closely before tossing them out, because one of them contained some loose hardware that I was pretty sure I was going to need later.

…and MBS was courteous enough to send all the tools necessary to assemble this beautiful beast……. (more…)

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Posted By McCarver on August 21, 2010

SurfingDirt and Dyad Clothing are teaming up to give away some fresh new boarding apparel and all you have to do to qualify is A) have a SurfingDirt account and B) know how to have fun on a mountainboard. Obviously we are going to need some sort of evidence that you are out there having fun on the hill so that’s where C) sombebody with a camera comes in.

DyadClothing wants to see how we represent so we’re asking you to post the highest quality pictures you have got of you doing Shredding, Crashing, and just having Fun(one of each) in this thread, and sit back and wait for your prizes!

Ok maybe there is a little more to it….

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Posted By SurfingDirt Crew on August 8, 2010

Originally posted by Pigryder on the SurfingDirt How-To Forums

Starting with a board you wanna put brakes on, a brake kit, 9mm, and your favorite board forum. Next you will want to go thrugh your brake kit and review the instructions and make sure you have everything you need….. (more…)

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