snowsk8 future = wakeskate now??? what do you think?

CheeseSkate · Frontside 180 Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 344

hi guys,
ok, i cant deny it I 'm a huge fan of snowskating (bi-deck).

I used to snowboard a lot but around the same time I switched from wakeboarding to wakeskating I also switched from snowboarding to snowskating….I guess my feet cant stand bindings anymore…lol

Anyway, do you guys think that one day snowskating might take the same road than wakeskating….? I mean back in the days (and sometimes still now) people had trouble understand what wakeskating was about and they couldn’t understand or foresee its potential (obviously this has changed big time, just look at Aquafrolics…)….maybe one day people will stop looking at me like if I were a freak on my skate and snow slopes will be full of kids throwing backside bigspins down hills….who knows…
What do you think?

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

CheeseSkate, I snowskate almost daily in the winter.
Around here everyone seems to be stoked on it.
I like to think , I have influenced a few people to at least try it out.

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

honestly i don't think it will.

i think snowskating is way harder than it should be (probably because of lack of board technology?)

i have a bi-level too and i always wondered why they dont make the bottom deck the same size as the top deck....it seems like it would be so much easier to turn and a lot more stable for tricks

CheeseSkate · Frontside 180 Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 344

Gnarly Dancer 42, I agree 100% with you.....some like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgeMa4HVjr8

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

hmm the bottom deck still looks pretty small. i dont understand why they're made like that though, i can't really see any advantages to having a bottom deck smaller than the top deck

CheeseSkate · Frontside 180 Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 344

its the same lenght (only 0.75 inch difference in front and back) ....

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

i'm talking width wise though

yookyle · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1002 City: Reno

i tried it once..... didnt really enjoy it. but i who iam to say what will be huge or not

labellethrasher · Posted: Oct 26, 2009 1:53 pm Post subject:

us Wisconsin boys really liked the Burton Approach... I wish they'd bring it back! Maybe if I can get the specs, the dudes at New would make me one Idea

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

gnarlydancer, I think a really large bottom deck would be difficult to turn. I think about how I turn on a snowboard and I really use my legs and get into it (I guess rising in and out of turns, if that makes sense). I think it would be hard to ride a snowskate like that.

Anyway, It would take people to invest some legitimate time and effort into snowskating to progress it--not only promoting it through riding, but making good equipment that people can progress on. I used to snowskate and I don't anymore. I had one of those premiere wakeskates and those were basically toys. You couldn't turn them, you couldn't ollie them...they were fun for awhile. I remember seeing the first burton bi deck on the x games and I thought there was some potential there. but then I think about wearing all of that bulky snowboarding gear and the forward momentum thing (you need something to create it, be it a hill or a towing device), and I'm quickly over it (sorry LT Laughing

). I would rather snowboard at my hill than snowskate any day of the week. but I'd rather wakeskate than snowboard. Razz

hahaha, I just finished reading your post labellethrasher and it made me smile.

waterdork88 · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 426 City: Orlando

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbRR-YXx9s

I think it will progress into something even more amazing Very Happy

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Brett Leadley · Posted: Oct 30, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject:

I would like to see the top decks a little bigger, maybe something just a little smaller then a wakeskate-- I took two snowskate bottom decks and mounted them to an old cassette concave but the snow melted before I got to try it Surprised

I think it would be cool to shred some green and blue trails on the hill on a snowskate but the thing I can't get past is the leash? How can you can do spin and flips tricks if they make you use one- or am I missing something

burn · Posted: Oct 30, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject:

yookyle · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1002 City: Reno

that true color video changed my mind. but snowskating looks only fun at streets spots with snow.

Parker · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Posts: 1731 City: Norman

whats a good site to get a snowskate if theyre not ridiculously overpriced i would consider getting one

CheeseSkate · Frontside 180 Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 344

Parker try this one:

www.0910snowskate.com

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

Brett Leadley, somthing like this -

caprice150 · Backside 180 Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 593

miller, looks like a signature wakeskate... crazy concave Shocked

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

caprice150, that is the first thing I thought