Homemade Skiboards/Skates

[nate]

Found this video of what seems to be aggressive skate boots with some homemade frame for winter. Not at all effective, but made me laugh some.


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[shaggy433]

I used to see these all the time in the mid 90's up at Searchmont...

[SkaFreak]

Those things look soo sketchy. If I really wanted skates that bad I'd create a UFS to 4x4 adaptor and throw my skates on some 75-85cm boards. would be a lot more stable.

[TheGoudaDoctor]

Wow, that was the best vid ever to wake up to. What a good laugh!

[Mark]

anyone remember "sled dogs"


i had them for exactly one trip out.

http://www.boomtownskis.com/photos/sled_dog-1-tn.jpg

it was a cute idea and all, but in application it was terrible.

[kirk]

If I really wanted skates that bad I'd create a UFS to 4x4 adaptor and throw my skates on some 75-85cm boards.


I actually did just that with the exact same boots he has in the video .. Salomon Aaron Feinberg pros. and I have to say.... I was not stable in the slightest. Skate boots just have absolutely none of the support you need to actually turn or control yourself. When I was making them, I thought it was the greatest idea... have the comfort of skates while skiboaring. But it failed terribly, I looked just like that, and I couldn't even really skate through my yard covered in snow.