There are two kinds of longboarding. One kind is like real skateboarding, but only with one trick. In the favor of those hobbyists, that trick is a hillbomb, which is rad. In pursuit of this trick, they made longer boards with wheels that chalk up the ground like rally cars and put life on the line, even though they're wearing silly micheal jackson gloves and goofball bmx helmets. They are definitely a step above downhill speed roller bladers, but that's only because those guys are roller bladers, and also maybe because that doesn't exist.
A second kind of "longboarding" isn't skateboarding at all. It's just standing on a weird skateboard that really easy to stand on, and rolling around on flatground. In the second kind of longboarding, the one that most longboarders (maybe three or four aren't, and I actually met one of the mountain boarders on the MRT once) are doing, you just do the same thing that penny boarding scum do, only on a skateboard so easy to ride that you might as well walk.
On a side note, I saw a kid on a penny board cruising in the rainy Taipei streets through traffic, and it was actually neat, but mostly because I don't know if he survived it. Any activity in Taiwanese traffic is as respectable as a longboard hill bomb. It's only one trick, but it's a damn scary one.
Anyway, if you're riding a longboard on flatground, you won't be in a few years, because it's a soulless, empty fad that only immoral and gutless people would ever attempt. If you're riding down a mountain on one, well, godspeed. If you're riding a penny board through rainy traffic, fuck dude, just buy a real skateboard....
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