How Much Can Boards Evolve in the Future?

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

How much different do you think boards will be 5-10 years from now compared to what they are presently? In my own opinion, I don't really think that much dirrerent from what we see today. I know there will be refinements of shape and construction materials and processes but think the general shape and construction are what we will see forever. Why? Because while wakeskating may be the youngest of boardsports it also started the furthest along in the evolutionary curve. 20+ years of wakeboarding prior to wakeskating to show us the general outline, edge, and rockers(yes I know there have been ws specificish rockers,aka 5 stage, tried but they seem to have already gone to the wayside) to guide us to what works best when being pulled.We don't really have really self generated speed like surfing but if that were the case we would have 50+ years of surfing bottom contours(vee,reverse vee, single, double and triple concave, etc.) to help guide us in the right direction. The last 20 years of skateboarding has really shown us what a good deck concave should feel like so that has also really helped us along. 25+ years of snowboarding has even helped us with advanced construction tecniques that are already being used. Bi-levels may be unique to waleskating but even those take elements of already evolved boardsports. In the future those too will even have, hopefully, the same reliability as other boards.. Well this is where I am seeing thing from and why i see them that way. How do you see our great life going.

soflostile · Ollie Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 55

poeple will try stupid gimmics and useless innovation to make money...i just hope in 20 years or so people still wakeskate

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

soflostile, agreed. One thing i do worry about is that if wakeskating gets as big as I think it can is that board quality could actually come down because of the quantity over quality thing. Presently, if a company provides something that isn't quality it will very much adversely effect itself. But if ws'ing were bigger, would that effect be felt as much? Just a worry of mine.

sandiegoskate · Posted: Aug 12, 2008 12:50 am Post subject:

feelnjstfine, yeah that is definitely a possibility, it has happened to many sports including skateboarding (not all companies, but a few major ones certainly need to refine their construction process). Another worry could be that wakeskating could get completely exploited and kids could start doing it for the wrong reasons (again another thing thats happened with skateboarding)

stOAKed · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 1946

I hope it will still be bigger than wakeboarding and the whole world will know what it is

junglesmacks · Posted: Aug 12, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

I predict that in another few years wakeboarding will go the way of the Rollerblade

seriously

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RISE-WITH-THE-FALLEN · Pop Shuvit Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 128 City: austin

someone make a board i can nollie, dammit!

BB · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1706

bmr712 · Posted: Aug 12, 2008 10:23 am Post subject:

feelnjstfine, i think as long as a company stands behind their work and isnt trying to mass produce crapy boards the sport could stay on the right track.. But wakeskates prices are getting a little crazy because it dosent cost that much to build a board when you buy products in bulk.

stOAKed · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 1946

RISE-WITH-THE-FALLEN, haha I'll be there to watch you try Smash

Jholiday · Posted: Aug 12, 2008 10:29 am Post subject:

hoverboards

stOAKed · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 1946

cenflskate, "hoverboards don't go on water you need power" haha best trilogy ever

De Oro · Backside 180 Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 1064 City: Austin

feelnjstfine, we have come along way, but we have so far to go...

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EJazzle · Posted: Aug 12, 2008 10:50 am Post subject:

hydrofunnels are the future.

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The Bug · Frontside 180 Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 434 City: Redding

stOAKed · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 1946

haha whirly dick philip soven haha yeah there are only so many spins and flips you can do on a wakeboard not saying i can do any but wakeskates there are so many possibilities

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

hyrofoil trucks Shocked

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

One thing that's been sitting in the back of my mind recently is the possibility of using materials in composite decks that aren't as dense as they are now. What if there were materials out there that were as stiff as today's materials, but with the same density as wood? That would give you a deck that might sit in the water like a wood deck, but with the durability of a composite.

Jesse · Posted: Aug 12, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

I'm not one to usually speculate, I live in/for the now completely, but I say as far as design and construction is concerned the sky's the limit. Who knows, who cares, just roll with it bros. Its not about the ends, its about the means.

DirtyCracker · Guest

maybe one day we can ride hoverboards and wakeskate all over the world anywhere everywhere Smash