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Andy Anderson Pro-Model Flight Deck – Skateboard Review (9.1″)

Over the last couple years I’ve tried a lot of different size boards to find out what works best for me. I’m 6’1″ 175-180 lbs. I’ve tried 7.75, 8, 8.25, 8.5. A shaped Creature board that was 8.0, and even a small freestyle board.

When I was a teenager just starting to skate, I always favored smaller boards, around 7.5-7.75. No real reason why. I just thought “they’re supposed to flip better, and flip tricks are cool, so I’ll get a board that flips better…” This of course didn’t take into consideration I couldn’t even do a flip trick, but hey, at least I had an idea.

Begining a couple years ago (and even when I was a teenager), I was breaking boards seemingly all the time due to just not being very good at skateboarding, and landing wrong. Weighing 175-180 lbs doesn’t help either. I was looking up skateboards that hopefully didn’t break (or weren’t supposed to) and I came across Flight boards from Powell Peralta. Doing some research, they have a couple layers of carbon fiber, so they’re even lighter than normal skateboards, and also, only a bit more money, not crazily more expensive. So I opted to get one. I loved it. I didn’t break it. It was an 8.0. From then on, all I skate(d) was/is Flight decks.

After the 8.0 wore out a bit, I decided to try a 7.75 Flight. It was ok, but I was sort of used to the 8.0. I tried an 8.25 for a while after the 7.75. I really liked the 8.25. Everyone kept telling me “You gotta go 8.5”. Since I’m a bit bigger and taller, this seemed to make sense. I mostly skate stuff like bowls and transition, so most basic knowledge says “go wider board for that.” For some reason the 8.5 didn’t feel as good as the 8.25. Maybe I was just so used to the 8.25, and the 8.25 felt “right”. I told myself “OK, the 8.25 is what my size is, that’s what I’m going to skate.”

And then I came across Andy Anderson Via NKA Vids on Youtube, and he instantly became my favorite skateboarder. Turns out, he got sponsored by Powell Peralta, and they made a Flight board for him. Now, Andy Anderson has his own shape to his board. He’s got a theory and philosophy behind his shape that makes it super unique. The other thing…he skates his board super wide. It’s a 9.1″, or something close to that. It’s hard to really say the dimension, because it’s got little “wings” and stuff. I told myself, “I need to get this board.” When Flight released it, they also released it in a 8.45″ model. I thought, maybe I’d get that one, BUT…to do it right, I had to try the 9.1″. They instantly sold out. I missed my shot for a couple months. Once they came back in stock, I bought one the first day they were back.

I had to buy new trucks to fit it (8.75″). I opted for the normal Independant trucks. I was skating mini-logo trucks for my last set, and I had some thunders before that, and some old grind kings I was skating earlier too. I’ll maybe make a truck blog review later.

So once I set my board up, it was time to hit up the park and test it.

I LOVED it. Just the wideness of it, and how it balances, I had a sick session. I was joking around with my buddy that the board had the spirit of Andy Anderson in it. I was trying some stuff I hadn’t ever tried before, and just having a sick session.

For the mini ramp I was skating it was working really well, then I switched over and skated some street stuff and it performed just as good there. Maybe it’s just the odd shape, or the fact that it’s so wide, but it seems like there’s more “give” and you don’t have to be exactly perfect a lot of the time.

I’ve skated it now for a few weeks, and I think when they come back in stock I’m going to just order like 4-5 more, and they’ll just be my go-to board. Once it wears out, I don’t want to wait a month or 2 for them to get back in stock, so it’ll be nice to have a couple just waiting.

Oh, and as far as “flippability”, I was able to land a kickflip pretty much 2nd try, and my Heelflips are just as consistent with on a 8 or a 7.75. It’s all in foot placement.

Top 5 DIY Energy Generators

Off-Grid power – Green Living

If there’s a storm and you lose power and you need to keep your family safe, what back-up plan do you have? If it’s a blizzard, huricane, tornado, or if power goes out and you need lights and your refrigerator to work, your cell-phone to charge, what do you do? We rely on power in the 21st century. So what do you do when the power goes out? You probably need a portable power generator of some sort to keep yourself and your family safe. Or do you just want to reduce your electric bill by at least 50%? Want to do your part in helping the environment by going “off grid” and using renewable energy sources? Well, here’s the top 5 DIY energy Generators you can make at home, all in digital format of course, so you could start today.


Power Efficiency Guide

The Power Efficiency Guide gives you the blueprints and step-by-step on how to build a power generator. This does NOT use a solar panel system, but relies on the endless power principle used to make the electric cars constantly charge themselves from the wheels when not being accelerated. It’s a neat idea.

Important points:

  • Claims to eliminate some or ALL of your electric bill
  • Can be built for $106 or less
  • Maintenance Free
  • 60 day money back Guarantee
  • $49 to buy the program

Click HERE to Purchase

Smart Solar Box

Smart Solar Box is pretty much just what it says. It uses solar panels to charge batteries and you can attach it to your electric system. Solar panels are getting super popular, but the drawback is, most of them are huge and go on your roof and super expensive. Smart Solar Box is small, and inexpensive. You can also scale it up and make more/bigger ones.

Important Points

  • Around $200 to build
  • Doesn’t need to be outside 100% of the time. Just charge it and bring it in.
  • Zero Maintenance
  • Zero Noise
  • Comes in digital video format, so you can re-watch the videos on how to make it
  • $39.69 Cost for the program
  • 60 Day money back Guarantee
  • Around 3 hour build time

Click HERE to Purchase

Backyard Revolution

The Backyard Revolution is a solar panel option similar to the Smart Solar Box. With the Backyard Revolution there’s a few differences. The construction design is a little different, and so is the blueprints and support.

Important Points

  • Uses about 10 Sq Ft.
  • Video how-to
  • Zero Maintenance
  • About 2 hours to make
  • 12 months of e-mail support if needed
  • 60 day money back guarantee
  • $39 to purchase the program

Click HERE to Purchase

Nomad Power System

The Nomad Power System is NOT a solar power system. It claims to use the
rotation conversion principle used in many vehicles, in clutches and differentials to generate power. The good thing about this, is you don’t have to worry about charging, like you do with the solar panel options, and it’s usually cheaper to make, and easier to find parts for.

Important Points

  • Costs about $200 in materials to make (Or less)
  • Less than 3 hours construction time
  • Maintenance Free
  • Program includes blueprints, instructions, materials list. All in digital format so you can print off if you need to.
  • Unlimited support FOR LIFE
  • 60 day money-back Guarantee
  • $49 cost for the program

Click HERE to Purchase

Freedom Particle System

The Freedom Particle System doesn’t actually say how it generates the power. It does a bit of ripping on solar models in it’s description, so we know it’s not by solar. My best guess is that it’s some mechanical function, similar to the other 2 mentioned. It’s price point is pretty low, which is nice, and there’s a couple nice perks to the generator.

Important Points

  • $116 or less total cost of materials to build
  • Maintenance free
  • UNLIMITED lifetime support
  • 60 day Money Back Guarantee
  • Around 3 hours for construction
  • Blueprints, step-by-step instructions, and full material list included
  • $39 cost for the program

Click HERE to Purchase

Vert Shock – Can you learn to jump higher?

I’m going to preface this blog with the fact I haven’t purchased this product, but I’ve done a bunch of research on it (10+ hours) and came to my conclusion based on everything I’ve read and found out.

What is it?

Vert Shock is an “8 week program” designed to help you jump higher and increase your “vertical”. Essentially so you can dunk a basketball. It’s all in e-book/PDF format, which is kind of nice. If you want you can print it off and bring it to wherever you’re going to be, or just access it via your phone for the workouts.

The workouts are mostly only body weight and plyometric exercises, which is nice, because you don’t need weights, and can do the workouts inside or outside with just your body.

The workout has 3 phases. Pre-shock, shock, and post shockvertshock.com

vertshock.com
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The Workouts

The workouts range from anywhere to 20-45 min per workout, and go from anywhere between 4-6 days per week. This gives you rest days, or even days to lift weights, or do other workouts if you’d Like. Most of the routines are about the same, even though they technically have 3 “phases”.

Even though this is all body weight exercises it’s essential to have some kind of box to jump on, and a hill to sprint up. Luckily enough, those are pretty easy to find. Depending on where you live, hills are a dime a dozen. If it’s really flat, there’s always the option of a treadmill. Just set the incline to something steep. And for “box jumps” you can do a step, a bench, a bed of a truck, a couple cement block, etc. You can get creative if you really need to.

How to get the most out of Vert Shock

In order for the program to really work, you need to do the workouts 100% and stick to the program. Also, you need to keep working the program a bit and need to keep working out after the 8 weeks are up. If you just quit, your body and muscles will revert back to not being in shape. This is almost a no-brainer. If you work out and get in shape, then stop working out, you’re obviously going to lose your gains.

The program does offer quite a bit of technique tips for jumping and different ways to just increase your vertical a little bit right from the start, which is nice.

Extras/”Freebies”

As of writing this, there’s a BUNCH of extras included in the purchase of this program. The 4 Vertical Jump Killers, The 5 Dirty secrets to Jumping Higher, Weekly Check-Ins, The jumper’s Diet Checklist, NBA Jump Secrets Revealed, The Power Leak Fix, Olympic High Jump Hacks, The slingshot Secret to Instantly Jump Higher, The Vert Shock Maintenance Program, The Dunk Now Visualization workout, The Vert Shock Vert Tracker Workbook, Jump Like Justin System.

That’s actually a LOT of free stuff included. Which makes for the value of the program even better.

Does it work/Should you get it

By the reviews and looks of it, this program actually DOES work. If you follow all of the steps, and workout hard, and do everything you’re supposed to, you WILL increase your vertical. How much depends on a lot of factors. If you already can jump really high, it won’t make you jump 20 inches higher probably, or if you’re super over weight, you won’t get 15 inches without losing some bodyweight. BUT, it is a good all around program.

As you’ll see at the bottom of the main page, there’s 3 things you can do, and I think that it’s pretty much 100% correct. You can do nothing and make no improvements, you can do TONS of research on your own and spend maybe 15-20+ hours trying to figure out your own gameplan of how to jump higher, by watching youtube videos and reading random blogs, OR you can cough up the money and buy this program and get everything set out for you on what to do and how to do it.

The choice is yours.

Does The Red Tea Detox work?

If you do a quick search for Red Tea Detox on google, you’ll notice that right away there’s 4 and 5 star reviews for the product. Are these reviews legit? Well, here’s my review of it, and I’ll leave it up to you to decide if it is or not.

What it is and what it is NOT

This seems to not be a “diet plan” per se. It’s not “eat this and get skinny.” It’s more of Drink this instead of snacking and be healthier. Of course, everyone knows you have to couple everything with a balanced diet and exercise in order to make every weight loss thing work. There’s never any “secret” to getting skinny, but sometimes there are things that help on the way. This seems like it might be one of them, maybe.

Also, this IS an e-book. You don’t actually get the tea, you have to go out to the store and buy the ingredients to make the tea. They’re actually pretty easy to find in stores, so that helps. It’s not just the ingredients that are in the book (that’d make a super short e-book), it has other things in it, which I’ll talk about later on.

The Claim

The Red Tea Detox claims that it allows “almost anyone to lose 14lbs in just a matter of weeks.” This claim doesn’t actually sound too bad. I’m in pretty good shape, and just by tweaking my diet a little in the past, I’ve been able to drop 2-3 pounds per week. Saying 14lbs in a “matter of weeks.” could mean 14 pounds in 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or 4 weeks. Depending on how much weight you have to lose, and how hard you try, this could easily be attainable. Making the claim not anything too grand, but sounding really pretty good.

What all is included

So it’s not just the e-book which you get when you purchase this product. You get a bunch of extra stuff, which is nice. At the time of writing this, you get a “Green smoothie fat-loss recipe” book, “5 Detox Methods of Fabulous Celebrities” book, “Super Foods” and “Effortless Weight Loss Hypnosis”. That might just be a promo running now, and it might change in the future, but for now, those are actually pretty good ‘freebies’.

The book is broken up into 3 sections:

Diet: This part is pretty self explanatory. It outlines some energy-rich goods to help you burn fat faster, and most importantly, tells you about the benefits of detoxifying your body.

Exercise: Describes exercises and provides some routines to help boost metabolism and burn fat.

Willpower, Motivation, and Mindset: This is actually probably the most important section of the whole program. It helps you understand motivation and also how to stay in the mind-set of being healthy.

Conclusion – Does it work?

After reading the book and trying the tea and researching the science behind it, I can honestly say that YES, it does work. Like everything else, it’s not a magic bullet or a get skinny quick thing. You have to put in work and make some adjustments, but overall I think it’s a good tool to help you reach your goal.

Also, couple this with a 60 day money back guarantee, it’s almost too good to pass up.

Oh, and with this link I found, you can get $20 off too, which is huge!