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- OUPablo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23I thought this was the whole point of a snowboard
- synd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Why don't you just say *****? Pussy.
- themarq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yeah, it's a nice hacker project, but without a leash it would never be alowed on any ski hill in North America.
- To0n1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Actually, Snowboarding has more in common with Surfing than Skateboarding - Feet are always in contact with the board. Snowskating (as the kids call it these days) is analogus to skateboarding evolving from surfing, as snowskating from snowboarding.
- sephiroth965, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"No one’s ever thought of taking the sport of skateboarding, and putting it on snow.
Never been done." BULLSH*T, I've had a snowskate for years! I can't find it on Burton's website right now but a "snowskate" is a skateboard deck with one short ski on the bottom. - Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Seriously, it needs a leash of some sort.
I don't understand how you're supposed to move around on it though if it has no edges. And it's not like it has any mobility on a rail because all you could do was 50-50. - makis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6why don't get a snowdek or a snow skate?
- piznut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This seems like something that might be sort of fun for small hills. The kind where you tube and whatnot...places without lifts and where it would be a hassle to lug out your snowboard.
How about a tether with that kit? Last thing anyone needs is a rider to lose control of this and have it take someones head off flying down a hill. - drumnbass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Errr... link then?
- HeyFergy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.premiersnowsk8.com/index
http://www.snowskate.ca/
http://www.tactics.com/snowskate-shoes
http://expn.go.com/snb/gallery/premgal.html
Seriously....snow skating has been around for a solid 5 years that I know of. Probably even longer. I realize the guy was being sarcastic but some people seem to think he was being serious and that board is actually a cool invention. Not so much. - madpie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no, decks are not plastic. They're wood, unless you're buying them at toys r us or something. And the trucks are clearly still on the board that is pictured. The point is, you use a ***** board and you don't worry about it.
- Scharf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's been done b4 you jackass!
- drdidg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well I already ordered my set. I will be rigging my conversion kit up to my snakeboard to see how that works. My current snakeboard already has snowboard style bindings on it, so it should be quite interesting. For those asking WTF is a snakeboard, the link below is me griding Harvard Square.
http://homepage.mac.com/drdidg77/snake.jpg - Trunkmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ditto on the *****. I submitted the exact same design they're using for a science class invention project in Junior High School over 15 years ago...
- punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Plastic skateboards? Yeah maybe and walmart or zellers or something. Most decent skateboards are made out of 9-ply maple.
- darkaxum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Having worked in the "extreme sports" industry for a number of years this kinda thing doesn't suprise me.
While Premiere Snowskates and Burton's system have actually been designed by people who ride, and have improved upon the idea of riding a skate-deck when you can't snowboard, This falls into a long list of horrible inventions of inventions that just aren't all that fun and waste your time when you could be working your muscles (to stay fit for the season) riding your bmx bike or riding at an indoor skatepark.
This thing will sink like crazy in anything but 2 centimeter snow on concrete and won't offer the meneuverability that systems like Premeire and Burton offer. Premiere and Burton work because they offer edges and surface area, which is key to snowboarding.
Inventions like this usually spring up because some idiot "inventor" doesn't want want to work hard enough to pay for the cost of snowboarding. - SeptBoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i made something like this except with skates (like ice skating) and it Had 4 trucks, so two skates on each side. and when i rode it it would turn just like a normal skateboard. lean to the right it goes right. i suspect this would work the same way. also, if u were wondering, i just added some grip tape to the bottom of my shoe, and that made it possible to grip the ice. and i was only 11 when i made it so don't say its such a dumb idea.
- SeptBoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2with my true snow skate using actual ice skates it did rust and have a little corrosion, but overall the performance wasn't significantly affected.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is a link to a Swingbo picture:
http://www.oldsnowboards.com/pics/album66/aad - SeptBoot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3go buy a leash
- crawdad62, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well as was stated it would probably be fun on the neighborhood hill. You probably wouldn't/couldn't use it at a resort (where yeah a leash would be mandatory) but the whole leash thing is moot. If you want one just buy one or freaking make one. How hard would that be?
As far as turning it.... it doesn't need an edge like a ski or snowboard. It's using the trucks of the skateboard to turn. You lean the truck rotate on their axis and the little skies turn in that direction.
Looks pretty fun. I'd make sure I had an old board or one that I put a few coats of polyurethane on though. Water and laminated wood don't mix. - To0n1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think it's to be used in areas where one would snow skate.
I would never take a snowskate to the top of my local mountain.
Think snow covered urban areas, where lugging around 150cm of board with bindings might be a bit more akward, than say a 2 and a half foot skate board (figure ~75cm) - punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Surprised nobody here has menitoned the bit about the damage all that snow is going to do to your deck, trucks, and bearings. This idea looks interesting at first but when you actually think about it it's really dumb and has already been implemented before (snowskate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_skating ) Any skateboarder would know how unstable this thing would be on any kind of hill.
- bloodylip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My uncle did this in the '70s by cutting a plastic ski in half and attaching it to the skateboard trucks.
- wolvyne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Have to make the conversion for winter. This will be awesome for just on some small side streets. Or to use to ride to the slopes with your snowboard strapped to your back. I'm now just waiting for the youtube videos of people hitching onto cars and eating crap.
- tigerpaper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1although the design of these snowskates is economical, having trucks that hang down in the middle causes real problems-unless the snow is extremely hard pack or ice.
snow gathers in front of the trucks and stops you from going anywhere.
this is why similar models have failed in the past to snowskates with a larger surface area on the bottom.
I haven't seen this particular model in action, but it looks nearly identical to other models that have been released in the past decade. - Reezy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Supposedly these things are complete crap. The good snow skates have a full ski blade covering the whole area underneath the board with some springed truck system or something.
And oh yeah -- this was in Popular science. - To0n1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dugg, but the description on the headline is a bit misleading, as anyone who's used a snowskate would never use it on the slopes, ala Skis/Snowboards.
- icekold2, on 02/14/2008, -0/+0You guys should check this out http://skilimited.uni.cc
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Back in the 1980s a friend and I sold Swingbos while we were in high school. They were basically a skateboard on two skis. The product was made in Austria. I winder if they are still in business and whether or not this is a patent infringement?
- Fimus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Say goodbye to your griptape.
- caspy7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Bokista
Agreed. Wouldn't it make more sense that when you lean in one direction that the skis would each individially lean in that direction?
Has anyone seen such a thing before? Perhaps I'm wrong, but it would seem to make sense for steering. - williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Leashes are deadly too. If you wipe out with one of these on a leash it WILL come around and smash your skull.
I have ridden on a two different kinds of these: One is light, made of plastic, and is basically a small snowboard with no bindings. Kinda fun for goofing off, and you usually use it on a small hill, like a sledding hill, so no issue of runaways.
I have also tried a real skateboard deck bolted to the top of a snow skate - a kind of short ski. That is more like skateboarding, but the device is either going to kill the rider or someone else. It's heavy, and if it ran away it would be a missile. Banned from ski areas, therefore.
The problem is, you can't tell when the rider has permanently left the deck. So you can't design a brake. - palmer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What are you talking about? The bearings are in the wheels, which have been removed. Many decks are plastic, so that's impervious. And the trucks? It looks like this device replaces those, too.
So really, it would have been more reasonable to question the small size of those skis, which wouldn't have enough surface area to ride on top of anything except hard-packed snow. - ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Oblig. Sopranos quote:
"What's the hardest thing about skateboarding?"
"Telling your parents that you're gay" - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You need Snow of some sort. That's why skaters ride Skateboards in urban areas where it does'nt snow...Thats what skateboards were invented for...not riding on the snow. If want to do that I'll go out and rent a snowboard from the ski lodge that I probably can afford since it seems I can afford to be at a ski resort in the first place.
- Araya213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Scat porn? You sicko!
- webbsk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This just sounds like the waste of a perfectly good skateboard to me.
- Caboose101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1next big invention, a conversion kit for your everyday sneakers.
- dcoolidge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1There are better ones than this.
- Araya213, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Now they need to come out with Strapz!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1this sucks, a board would totally own this wood joke...
plus no straps! when you fall, that thing can go 100km/h and hit someone...
reporting it as lame! - T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Just $50? And the cost to cover plastic surgery of the poor girl how got hit in the face with your lose projectile?
This is mechanics... Or whatever you call it, not Technology. - noswar45, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1PMSB = Poor Man's Snow Board
- tlmac59, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Me, too. In fact, I thought about putting this under offbeat news.
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