Ride any hill, any time, no lift tickets, no lift lines, no off season. Sounds too good to be true right? I thought so to until I found out about freebord.
Basically, a freebord is a skateboard that rides like a snowboard. But seriously, there can be no way to give the feel of a snowboard on asphalt. That is, until now. Snowboarding is unique because it allows you to move laterally over the snow. You control the amount of slide you ride.
A freeboard has two central, pivoting wheels that mimic the base of a snowboard, and four outer wheels that mimic the edge of the snowboard. These two sets of wheels working together give the freebord its movement. The freebord combines both carving and sliding because without both, it isn’t really snowboarding.
Learning to ride isn’t that difficult if you already snowboard. You still move with your toes and heels. And stopping is as easy as kicking the board further one way and skidding to a stop.
By the looks of some of the videos, this seems pretty legit. I’m definitely looking into buying one of these things.
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looks pretty awesome. I actually just got a Sector 9 longboard, and i'm loving it to death. I just love cruising, carving and bombing hills, but unfortunately around campus theres not much in terms of hills. Lately my friends and i have had to revert to using the parking garages...but the campus security patrol doesn't like that too much. hhaha but whatever, they cant watch 'em all.
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