Building A Slappy Curb!!!

[@BeardedDante]

When the world needed him most, he returned..

[@etnies]

No better way to start the weekend... Yeah Ben!

[@benjaminnemec9146]

Sick whatsup etnies

[@maga_skater4207]

We need some white joslins

[@williambrowne5104]

Do the Scams again!

[@bendegros]

Thanks:)

[@pauliewalnuts5241]

Etnies × Hook-ups shoes were the best. Please do another run

[@joe.nail1]

The idea of watering your slappy curb every day is hilarious!

[@memorysometimers3067]

Freshly poured concrete needs it or it will crack fast. You can actually spray water on 10 year old concrete and if you sit and watch the concrete will slowly take some hydration.

[@Zachariah33]

Right? Lol i started cracking up when he did that 😂

[@m.e.5313]

EDGING.. always the most satisfying part..😂

[@galvanizedgnome]

What the hell is wrong with people.

[@Cream-and-Chigurh]

I CAME straight to the comments to see if anyone else caught that 😂

[@345Taco]

The Beavis and Butthead laughs ensue

[@itsnicetoseeyou]

​@@galvanizedgnome😭😭😂 can't go anywhere these days

[@juliom6260]

Oh, you made a video with The Vancouver Carpenter 😂 Great job Ben. Really appreciate your effort on doing that. Cheers from France

[@mikethomson6546]

Thanks for the video Ben. Love the step by step. I never knew why my 8" trucks felt so good on my 8.25" board. You hit it on the head. It feels like it flips easy like a smaller board. But the tiny bit bigger deck inspires confidence to land cleaner. I live in the Lower Mainland as well. Maybe I will run into at one of the local parks you've featured.

[@zerodicjcorez9173]

im going to try the same, my 8inch board and trucks dont feel good anymore plus im a size 11 shoe :(

[@mikethomson6546]

@@zerodicjcorez9173 You won't be disappointed. When I started skating again. I went from my classic 7.75 to 8. It felt huge. Now 8 feels small. 8.25 - 8.50, truck size one size smaller is such a nice feeling. If you can get past the "magic carpet" look. You will kill it at flat ground and everything else. The board flips faster but you have way more to land on. Also not riding a pencil on trasition is nice.

[@cyguaj8859]

where in vancouver is this skate spot?

[@williamday1412]

Loved watching this video. No wonder you focus on the carpenter channel. Very professionally put together and a great way you explain tips and technique. The voice over and video sequence is spot on

[@P1Brand]

Ambitious build for a "Vancouver Carpenter" that's "not a concrete guy." Looks like it'd hold a feeble slappy just fine. Good job Ben!

[@Bobby_Pyn]

Superb DIY skate content. Reminds me of the days of building launch ramps and fun boxes with stolen scraps.

[@MegaHellstrike]

I may not be interested in skateboarding much anymore but I do love to watch a craftsman create something I didn't know the process of!

[@rhysmorgan9049]

I will revisit this video when I’m 97 yrs old and can finally buy a house/nuclear bunker, thanks Ben!

[@JadedGenXer]

Got to say, this is the best use of a backyard tennis court, jelouse. Ive got the space but a sloped block and we have to actully leave home to skate, like get in the car leave as the roads here are country roads and no good, really chunky blue metal . One day ill get a slap put in the machine shed $$$ so we can skate year round and ive already saved your half pip tutorial and this is going in the same ideas file. Thank Ben . Lol your yokel drall gave me a giggle.

[@mutatedgenome]

Nice work. Looks fun. Here on the east coast I've never even seen an angled curb.

[@rulehardgarage9740]

Same thing here in the Midwest. It’s so hard to slappy these Midwest curbs. It’s like 100% commitment with a 50% chance of getting pitched.

[@non_brewed_condiment]

Really?? I see them all the time

[@DarmokAtTanagra]

we got everything here in philly, where i recently moved...first time living in a city this skate-able. like 50 feet from my door there is a ledge that stays waxed and across the street a slappy little sidewalk curb. the only thing we don't have is skateable flat ground..great obstacles everywhere but the sidewalks and pavement are terrible

[@06ogs]

Need an update on the concrete ledge you built at that skatepark a couple years ago!

[@middleagemikey6669]

Great video! I really enjoy the DIY format combined with some skating!

[@johnm3946]

The extra Portland is a must, there's nothing wrong with pulling the form board out. It's all about timing. Good job!

[@Adrock204]

I'm building a curb this weekend! Decided on a 5½“ top and a middle ground of your 2 at 12°🤘

[@dansours7157]

Rad. This was fun to watch. I made a glorified parking block for the sidewalk in front of my house. One of my biggest mistakes was not mixing the concrete wet enough. I also made the edges way too sharp which tore up my board & trucks pretty quickly. I eventually got a rub brick & rounded the edges to about .75 radius which made it 1000% better

[@DarmokAtTanagra]

I love that you modeled the design on the Santa Monica curbs which I have lusted after many many times in skate videos. That makes this like 3 times as cool, it's calling on skate spot history. About as cool as it gets for a video about making a curb. Worthy of a spot in the skateboarding archives

[@DGoon132]

THIS!! This is some awesome content!! A perfect marriage of Vancouver Carpenter and your skateboarding analytics.

[@AmoebaGagless]

Glad to see your still uploading videos fellow Canadian. Take Care. 🇨🇦👍🏻

[@fiore_adriano]

Elegant entrance!

[@rubberfooty]

Hey Ben! Just wanted to let you know that it's always a pleasure to watch your videos.

[@tysobol]

This is rad! Thanks for sharing this. I never would have thought to add rebar to a curb but it seems clutch 🙌

[@puresikness77]

When I was 19 I worked for a construction company building the concrete forms for a massive parking garage. The foreman used diesel fuel as the form release agent and it worked very well.

[@grampsskateboarding4814]

Glad he's back , surefire content

[@bige2867]

Really enjoyed watching this video, I'd love to see more DIY skate stuff if you build anything else! It was really good to hear your reasons for the choices you made during the build, and about what you'd have done differently, and about the difficulties with removing the formwork.

[@maga_skater4207]

Was looking forward to this after watching the first half on the carpenter channel.. you kill it bro and it makes me want to get my hands dirty and do some diy things myself..

[@pauliewalnuts5241]

Salute! 💚🛹

[@jeffli480]

Who knew you had to water your curb for thirty days before you can skate it? Awesome video!

[@juanmartinrossi9532]

Hi ben!! In construction we use when ,we dont have the specific liquid for de molding, kerosene or diesel fuel it’s greasy enogh and armored concrete, I don’t know how you call it in canada or use in argentina is hormigon armado you always use rebars and the way is to put 3 in a triangle or four in case of real concrete and we use what we call estribos which is a square rebar every 15 or 20 cm tying the rebars together so that takes te cut effect on the structure but the sort thing is allways use rebars!!!! Great video!!! By the way I am an architect

[@vassilykoloskov8707]

25:41 appreciate the back foot positionning cancelling as much liftinig of the board as possible

[@matroxman11]

I finally got front slappys on lock and now I really wanna build one of these beautiful freestanding curbs. Thanks ben 😁

[@fabiotarantino5027]

beautiful work. In my opinion, the curb always remains a fantastic element in a park, and makes it truly complete. for the next carb I will definitely use hairspray, thanks for the advice🔥. small question.. which deck do you use in the video? 🍻

[@bananaclipper7692]

7:17 Jeron calls that “pebble tech”

[@coverton]

Awesome! I love that you're combining your content. This is great!

[@williambrowne5104]

This was real relaxing and satisfying to watch, great stuff!

[@creativeexperience6388]

very very professional

[@thebigcheeseful]

this was awesome

[@Bsfeeblegrind]

This is perfect Ben TY! I havent watched yet but knowing you its gonna be a great instruction

[@SabrinaMorris]

I will probably never build my own curb, but I really enjoyed watching this. It made me want to run out and measure the Santa Monica curbs.

[@bendegros]

This was over a year before I went there. When I say modelled after I mean I looked at them in videos and just guessed. I wasn’t far off though.

[@SabrinaMorris]

@@bendegros If you hadn't put rebar in, I might have abandoned you altogether. (Not really.)

[@skateat4824]

Anything special to do if pouring concrete sidewalk curb like the one at 22:45 with 15 degree angle over really smooth concrete slab? What is length and width of the sidewalk curb (not the double-side) as that's exactly what I am planning to add to my backyard park.

[@derekmills2899]

something that worked really well in building curbs was adding a plasticizer to it. Stuff is kinda gnarly but was highly recommended by people who build a lot of curbs.

[@Lou-if1th]

Omg!!! I've been searching and searching for a video like this!!! Thank you so much can't wait to build my slappy curb!!

[@bendegros]

I hope it’s the best curb ever!!!!

[@skippyskater]

Would you ever cover the tennis court? Much love man!

[@bendegros]

No

[@skippyskater]

Weather has been a nightmare for skating in Sydney lately its either too hot or too wet haha@@bendegros

[@driftlessskater5475]

I can’t wait for that ledge video. I’ve been wanting to build something exactly like that for a while now.

[@daviddillon62]

Holy shit that was the coolest smoothest intro I love it.

[@PaulNirvana]

This was so satisfying... thank you vancouver carpenter!

[@shalabazertheboltstruck8645]

Thank you so much for this one Ben. Gonna build one first chance

[@gianjose9776]

Hey Ben i really think that you forgot to sand it down before applying the lacker i think it would be much looking clean and a round nice edges

[@bendegros]

Pretty sure I sanded it to get the fluff from the burlap off. Just didn’t film it.

[@gianjose9776]

@@bendegros Can we get more trick tips? Specially the basic slide tricks for ledge I gotta have it. Backside tails my dream trick

[@claysoggyfries]

Can you do a review on the Nike Vertebrae? They look really cool and the price isn't too bad for a Nike shoe. If they're durable, I might actually buy them

[@FirelordRob76]

i cant believe you had to water that thing for thirty days. that's dedication.

[@chriscas-ToolAficionado]

The curbs look great, but that ledge is lookin' scrumptious! Hrmm, i see the neighbor has been building as well.

[@2old2sk8geek]

Thank you Forrest! 😂👍

[@simonf1657]

Yeah. He's back. Lovely greetings from germany

[@chrisroberts]

Bringing a lil bit of Santa Monica back to Vancouver! 👍

[@gokartsRfun]

Intro roll up was smooth as hell hahaha

[@kylebreeden9143]

30 days! I admire your patience.

[@bendegros]

It was worth it

[@kalebl0ng]

That ledge looks beautiful can’t wait to see that video

[@PaulHintz914]

That’s all I gotta say about that 😂 Awesome set up

[@alecaros9477]

We need the bench video this what skaters really need to know !

[@robertchase8504]

Nice job man👍 (adding this to my project list)

[@tristanstreet3915]

so cool to watch you do that stuff, this is awesome

[@DanielConvalescence]

I'm glade your still making videos!!!

[@zachporr4315]

Me with absolutely nowhere to put a curb and will realistically never build one: hell yeah I’m gonna watch this whole thing

[@kuziluvit]

Like you said on the Nine club you have made friends with us. Glad to see ya back. I’ve even started watching your other channel. ✌🏻

[@345Taco]

Ben, your southern accent was spot on lmao

[@noahl7510]

i think you should have titled this “most handsome and cool guy in the world builds a slappy curb” there, i like that better.

[@bbygoyard27]

This is so satisfying to watch👍🏻Thanks Ben,invite GiftedHater to skate at your courtyard🔥

[@Samroble1]

Great video

[@GreybeardSkates]

Great build. How many bags of cement did it take? Just curious on how long of one you could make with just one or two bags of quickcrete.

[@bendegros]

Just visualize stretching the bag into a curb. Not much for one or two bags.

[@shanebrowning6817]

Skate Forrest skate. Great to see the work involved.

[@BENNN1999]

This is really good it's obvious you know what you're doing and it's just a slappy curb but yes you really needed a mag

[@michaelgibis]

Good job 👏 that park looks so fun 🤩

[@Sproutt]

Im sure you yes makita for the win!! I love my impulse driver. Its sneaky at snapping screws ha. And quiet at the same time

[@ryanrowe1975]

Good job!

[@jeffspalding5368]

I missed you Ben!! Haha just playin but I’m going to try get my brother to build one of these now. LoL

[@smiththomas64]

Have you considered getting a net set up and banging the tennis ball around on the court?

[@bendegros]

No!

[@AdjacencyBias]

Yeah Ben! Turned out great

[@nolliebags]

“Stay together for the kids” lmao love the skate content!

[@zerodicjcorez9173]

Sick vdo ben and a great private park you have there every sk8ers dream hehehe

[@LooperC]

Gosh darn that was a sweet intro kneel

[@natooo8312]

Man that looks so fun!

[@ChrisHampton-c5d]

Massage guns work really well for tapping concrete forms

[@bendegros]

Good call

[@larrysgonefishing]

edging is the most satisfying part of any activity

[@biga2]

Yo, just take a diamond cup wheel on an angle grinder to the edge to adjust your radius. You can make it what ever you want from here and even smooth out any other imperfections you aren't happy with.

[@bendegros]

It’s good enough👍

[@AdamX-nv3pb]

I’m just wondering how he got permission to install this at what seems like his local town tennis court

[@nero16ify]

sick 🙌 but what size board is that? 😆

[@bendegros]

8.25

[@paullech6736]

Thank you Ben.

[@BcottStudios]

Love the video!!

[@johnwilliams1620]

Can we talk about how smooth that intro was

[@hewie7338]

Thank you Ben, very cool

[@charl12]

If you made a horseshoe curb would the formwork be normal plywood like you would use on the mini ramp surface? Thanks Ben, liked the board slide to hurricane too, have you tried slappy hurricane?

[@bendegros]

Usually you have to kerf the plywood to get it to bend. There is a formula for how close together the kerfs are. The tighter the radius the more kerfs.

[@charl12]

@@bendegros ok so the cuts give the flexibility rather than the material, thanks Ben

[@KillerDave187]

🐐

[@matthiaskistler7421]

Nice video Ben. When will you review the Independent 215s? :=)

[@bendegros]

When I want to skate them and also feel like doing a review.

[@dutchmckracken9025]

Ben what type cement did you use like N or S? Also do you think a coarse sand mix could retain strength without chipping or would weather destroy it? Great video man.

[@bendegros]

No idea how the coarse sand might change it. I would just use regular Navvy Jack. It works in the real world.

[@matthewmbober4426]

That old plug-in DeWalt is a dandy.

[@TheAK0390]

Will probably never use this information, but you're damn right I'm watching the full length of any uncle ben vid

[@KirkPlymptonMD]

That Krooked deck looks like the Manderson shape.

[@bendegros]

More like 8.25 full SE but with a 14” wheelbase

[@KirkPlymptonMD]

Makes me want to buy Ventures

[@MarkPuke13]

Thank you❤❤❤