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Keep your hands protected and your slides controlled. Longboard slide Gloves are used by downhill skateboarders to provide for another point of contact to the ground. They are used to drift your longboard sideways at high speeds. Sliding your longboard effectively slows you down and also looks super cool. Slide gloves like the Loaded Slide Gloves come with finger pucks to provide for a longer life of the glove, while longboard slide gloves like the Landyachtz Slide Gloves give you a bit more maneuverability for added control of your slides. Any of our longboard gloves for sale can be upgraded with more durable Holesom Scented Slide Pucks for a longer life.
Longboard Slide gloves are made out of all sorts of different material and fabrics. Leather gloves are generally rated to last the longest. Leather is less likely to rip, so these longboarding gloves provide for the longest life. Longboarding gloves reinforced with Teflon are also more durable and long lasting. Some of the longboard gloves for sale come equipped with finger pucks. Finger pucks give you even more control of your slides, with added life of the longboarding gloves. The most common wear issue on longboard slide gloves without finger pucks is that the finger tips rip open leaving your bare skin exposed. Those that have mastered the hands down slide are less likely to need finger pucks. Skate gloves without finger pucks give the rider more maneuverability and more control over his or her slides.
All longboard slide gloves come stock with a pair of slide pucks. Some are very durable, while others wear out fairly quickly. For those that wear out quickly there is a great replacement, the Holesom Scented Slide Pucks. Holesome pucks have the smoothest. most controlled slide. They have a generally even wear pattern and last a long time. These pucks apply the scratch and sniff technique. In this case it's slide and sniff. All the Holesom Pucks are Scented with different flavors. The more you slide, the more they smell.
Slide Pucks are used not only for safety, but also for assistance. With longboard sliding gloves, the rider has better contol of his or her board for speed or maneuvering around sharp corners. Primarily used for downhill skateboarding. For slow speed or flat land hand protection see wrist guards. Unlike longboarding gloves, wrist guards will stop you rather than help you slide along the ground.