Ice Slalom
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- Adam Daniels
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Ice Slalom
A year or so more ago, i remember seeing a picture of a slalom board with ice skates on each wheel so the rider could pump around on ice. does anyone have any information on these custom pieces? i have many ponds in the woods around me and i would really love to slalom this time of year.
or.......does anyone have the ability to make such devices?
or.......does anyone have the ability to make such devices?
No vestido para mi
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- GBJ
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Blades
I have a vintage set of 4, I bought sometime back in the late 70's. Unfortunately, the brutally heavy, but very smoth surfaced, ice storm we'd had the winter before, the one that actually coated the hills in our neighborhood with an ice rink-quality surface (on which we downhill raced regular figure skates) and inclined me to want the blades in the first place, has yet to repeat itself. On flat, the blades turned out to be mostly unusable (or, at least, not very fun), and I learned an esoteric little lesson (for those who don't ice skate) about skate blades. An ice skate blade actually has two edges, one on each corner of the width of the blade, with a little concave (side-to-side) pocket between them, running the length of the blade. An ice skating blade that comes to just one point does nothing but gouge progressively deeper into the ice. Unfortunately, the person who created and marketed the ones I have didn't know that. They are single-edged. So, foot pushing was pointless. There was no way to push hard enough to get even enough momentum for the board to keep moving while you put your second foot back on the board. It was... push, push, push and then try not to fall on your nose as the board ground to a halt. The only way to get them going a little was to run across the ice and do a skateboard long jump-style jump onto the board, and then start pumping, hard. Once going, it would pump for a little bit, and, fortunately for me, I was raised playing the shoe-wearing ice sport, curling, and am very comfortable running on ice. Then, after all of that, I could pump the board maybe 50' before it was just taking waaaay to much effort and dug in. So, if you buy blades for your skateboard, make sure you get ones that have a blade like a real ice skate blade.
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- Adam Daniels
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- Pierre Gravel
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My Speedboarding Teammates from the kebbek Team, Ian Comishin and The Rookie are riding today in Québec City in the Red Bull Crashed Ice, an ice skating boardercross style race down an iced track made for the event:
They will be riding kebbek Flushcuts with blades, can't wait to see the videos!
For more info on this crazy event:
http://www.redbullcrashedice.ca/
I'll post here when i get skateboarding photos of the boys doing their demo.
They will be riding kebbek Flushcuts with blades, can't wait to see the videos!
For more info on this crazy event:
http://www.redbullcrashedice.ca/
I'll post here when i get skateboarding photos of the boys doing their demo.
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- Pierre Gravel
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