Ikr! And for me it’s hard to see it as a fashion or skate feeling type thing. Gloves looks sick and feel sick to wear. Aside from a helmet, they’re easily the most important piece of gesr
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Palm sliders are really good. I have a pair of these that i don’t wear as often as i should
They’re the next best thing to gloves, and super comfortable to wear
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Yooo this is a great share.
My BTR leather gloves survived so many crashes and conformed to my hand so nicely.
Get the size that fits SNUG on your hand and oil them and work them out with your hands in them and they will stretch and perfectly match your hands.
Nylon/kevlar/plastics get too bulky, especially at the seams. Gel pads don’t slide like pucks and leather.
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Same thing I do.
I buy whatever glove I actually like and add the little slide plates to them.
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What are y’all’s thoughts about gloves w/ slide pucks only, vs gloves w/ slide pucks and wrist guards (some rigid component that keeps your wrist from flexing too far in a crash).
Basically, longboard slide gloves vs something like Flatland3D’s pro esk8 gloves.
Personally I love the added protection of the wrist guard, and I feel kinda naked wearing gloves that dont have it. But also, slide pucks alone have been fine and not resulted in wrist injuries the few times I’ve fallen wearing gloves that dont have wrist guards. So 
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I have a couple sets with the added wrist guards…and I end up not wearing them because they feel so much more restrictive.
They are a nice set and pretty low profile for having wrist guards.
I have fallen a few times in the past six months at the skatepark and pump tracks and caught myself hurting my wrists…
The braces would have helped…
I used to wear wrist guards when I started rollerblading, and in my experience they turn any fall that would have injured a wrist, into a finger injury instead. YMMV, but I took a pass on them after that. I’m interested in support-ish gauntlet gloves, though.
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Interesting, i have heard this from other guys too. Maybe wristguards with gloves is the best.
I know that euc guys love these WRIST SHOCK-PAD SLIDER
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My thoughts as primarily a racer, I 100% want full longboard slide pucks, and I like tall pucks or puck risers also. I would love to have a glove that incorporates some wrist protection as well flatland 3d style, but having full size slide pucks is non negotiable for me, and as far as I know nothing exists that has wrist protection and doesn’t compromise on the full size pucks. I also like having knuckle protection, but not over my index finger, as it makes my trigger remote uncomfortable to use.
Also the fingers that interact with the throttle need to be cut off, otherwise throttle feel is too bad to be usable on a powerful board. However, I prefer to cut it off myself on only the one finger that I need, instead of coming with less fingers from the factory.
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Can you post a pic? Isn’t it uncomfortable to hold the remote when you have a big slide puck?
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It is very comfortable with this super tall printed puck riser.
Granted the small amount of velcro area makes it so that I have to watch out for the puck to not get caught on paint lines and such when I actually put my hand down, but it didn’t fall off yet. It’s not often that I put my remote hand down. It’s good for emergencies and to have fun on very slippery tracks.
Here you can see I also “modded” the knuckle protection so it doesn’t feel like it restricts the index finger movement:
My ideal glove would be this just with some semi flexible wrist protection on the top moto gauntlet or flatland 3d style
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I think @poastoast ? recommended them to me, and yeah totally agree about the leather bit, my old gloves were fabric and they ripped suuper easy.
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ye cole gave his right hand glub to me and he kept the left 
I’m gonna use it some more but so far for the price, totally good!
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Agreed, also the rider that hit 77 was wearing gloves…
Haha
Albert Park is the suburb that the GP track is in, not one of the riders 
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Ablert Parkyochinondedznutz
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Only cowards use gloves! Slide on your hands like a real man!
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I don’t think there is logic behind not using pucks.
(saving your hands.)
There is opinion which is pointless speech.
To me and this is opinion with some grains of truth.
Eskate, does not even know what it is.
Skateboarding knew what is was unconsciously and that
is why the progression in skateboarding happens and still is.
Skateboarding even understands its a million dollar industry
and has no need to create budget boards but make all boards
in real skateboard shops to be of same quality.
Not to offer someone less of a experience than another.
Even playing field based on universal standards or subconscious knowing.
With that said Eskate likes to build on that and build on that and build on that.
So much so that there is never a balance just a claimed to be new offer.
(knowing many have already made beyond the offer.)
(also a industry could buy in bulk and change this overnight.)
Skateboarding not E-skate offers you the rider to unlock human potential
and more. This can not be said for E-skate as many have set limits on itself
or the rider due to design choices that set a lock on E-skate itself.
Why… ask the industry as most of them are probably within this forum.
Seeing as skateboarding has already gone pretty fast, far, high, etc.
It would be pretty hard for Eskate to even come to a balance with
everyone having a say on what a E-skate is.
To me Skateboarding was not about the board, the art, the riders, etc.
It was a teacher but not a individual. It was a guide but not a rule book.
It has shape, form, angles, possibility, sparks inspiration of what is possible.
Eskate, still can not really Grind or Board slide.
Google Eskate and its nothing what a skateboarder would expect.
As it is missing so many areas of learning by creating rider limits.
Back to the Gloves, most riders from Eskate do not see Eskate as
what skateboarding is. Many markets need reason to get behind things
like this. So A-B riding becomes a option for sales pitch’s and more.
(funny skateboarding never needed to do this to be welcomed.)
So to see riders without gloves can make communizing look safe.
As well if you don’t need to pad up then it has to be safe, right!
To be clear, there are even people in this industry who offer nothing
at a cost and even pay others for you to buy that offer of nothing for kick
back. Some people will call this, the you have to start somewhere.
Where as to sell nothing but offer protection equals blood.
So I guess thats fair… or is fair the cost of the biz model…?
Sorry if I went off topic.
I have seen gloves for Eskate that have rubber on the palm.
This is asking for harm imo. What happens when a wrist locks to the ground
on impact and has no way to slide… Ill let you find out or we can skip
the science and use common sense. Hmmmm why did we add rubber
there…
Example: Slide puck
Easy to slide, allows rider to get low to the ground without forcing
head to bob, or worse break wrist.
Rubber Puck.
Easy to stop motion, Easy to have wrist lock up and force head to pavement.
Easy to have wrist locked to pavement and fling body randomly. Some may
say but it can help you stop. Where as I say just Stop with that.
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