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pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa

Okay, hear my rant...

To explicitly call out Pushing just sounds silly and redundant to me, when it comes to skateboarding. To the general public, pushing is what we DO on a skateboard. Common sense. Which is why "Long Distance Pushing" is kind of...obvious.

I take it a compliment, in a way. This phrase 'long distance pushing' evolved out of LDP, with a desire to differentiate pumping from pushing.

But the fact is, specifying "push" isn't even necessary. Most people in the world, the hoi polloi, still don't even know what pumping a skateboard even means! Which is the whole reason "LDP" germinated.

In contrast, telling someone that you push a skateboard is like telling them you eat -- *with your mouth!!!*

A little history... The origin of the term "LDP" for Long Distance Pumping, comes from a guy known as "HC" or "sk8norcal" on Silverfish. Several years back when there were some other guys doing LDP in parallel with what we were doing up here in the Northwest, HC brought up the term "LDP" for Long Distance Pumping, on the NCDSA forum. The phrase stuck. It was easy to say, easy to understand, and summarized what we'd been bending over backward to explain to people everywhere, not online as much as in person...that's where the conversations get really awkward Very Happy

So...in summary:

Pushing, it's what we do on skateboards. People "get it." The Pushing part is assumed. Which results in Distance Skateboarding. DS. Long Distance Skateboarding. LDS.

Pumping, we have to go out of our way to explain it. Distance Pumping. DP. Long Distance Pumping. LDP.

Whatever you do, don't trip over acronyms (unless you're on the internet...) Just skate. For distance. And if you say "distance" that usually implies long distance, so you don't really need to say "long"... but you could, unless you're just kinda going medium or short-long but not quite medium or semi-longish-short-medium or shortish-semi long medium.

LDPanda · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 418 Location: Seattle, WA

I think LDS DP is mormon porn.

Edit: OMG 300th post, what a dissapointment Sad

i had hoped i would say something profound or at least sensible for my 300th.

Belegnole · Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 86 Location: Appleton, Wisconsin

lol, rant excepted.

Here's one of those differences....I always think of skateboarding as going down a hill. It's most likely because of when I started skating and of course at that time I don't think there was a name for pumping yet..

heck they had just invented the wheel after all.......
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Ian the Groove Worshipper · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 79 Location: Largo, FL

Sometimes I wonder if what I like to do is LDP.

Pumping is my pleasure, my passion, my zen. But most often it's for less than 10 miles. Is that long distance?

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa

dave, rest assured your 300th post is solid gold Very Happy

and yeah IMO anything around 5+ miles is groovin and getting into the long-ish realm. I feel like thats just when you start to get in the Zone, and it's nice to stay there even longer when you can afford the free time. the endorphin rush at even longer distances is a definite reality, I feel it takes closer to an hour to hit it.

one of the shortest "long" distance running events is the 5000 meter which is a little over 3 miles, so I think going nearly twice that distance by skateboard is roughly a good equivalent of effort for the distance. not that it has to be competiitive at all, just a gauge of how one might define an abstract such as "long."

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa