Fly Down California's Craziest Hills on High-Tech Longboards

Beautifully shot videos showcase Loaded Boards' innovations in longboard design, not to mention some stunning west coast landscapes.

Loaded Boards

Longboarding, freeriding, slalom, downhill -- the is daunting for the uninitiated but basically, it's a cousin of skateboarding, with a longer. Based in Culver City, California, the company specializes in developing flexible, curved longboards inspired, they say, by mid-century design like Eames furniture. Their products layer natural and synthetic materials in a complex process they detail in the descriptions of their latest models, the and the . The specifics might not be that interesting to non-riders, but the videos alone are a graceful twist on the skate video genre -- more meditative, but also faster -- traversing urban and natural spaces with ease.