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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