New here? Why not check out the pages on different street surfing boards; The Wave Board, The Ripstik, The ESS Board, The OBoard, The Exboard, The Blade Board or The T-Board.
Does anyone remember the snakeboard? This was, back in the day, the original street surfing board. Two platforms which moved independently. It was invented in 1989 by James Fisher and Oliver Macleod Smith but when they sold their company back in the late 90’s the company that bought it stopped production.
Check out the video below to see the original snakeboard
Anyway, following on from this a new type of board was created called the Street Board; from Anderson Streetboards USA.
The Street Board now involved a skateboard split into three decks, with the rider bound to the board. The boards have quickly caught on and offer a much more aggressive alternative to the Wave Board and the Ripstik (at least until the Ripstik G becomes widely available).
Interested in picking on up? Check out the range at Extreme Pie.
Thanks for Jamie Nowman for the heads up and suggestion for this post.
So far I’ve tried to cover a multiude of different boards on this blog. I’ve come accross a couple this week that I have absolutely no information on so it would be good if you could get in touch if you have any experience of these.
WhipTide
I found this on Amazon.com but it doesn’t appear to be on Amazon.co.uk. From what I can see it just looks like a bigger, clumsy version of The Wave / Ripstik.
Hurricane Board
I found this while researching the WhipTide and it essentially looks the same as the WhipTide.
Has anyone tried either of these boards?
This is a good video by the guy who invented the Blade Board which gives you a good background on the differences for those of you who are interested in this subject.
I’ve added a small snippet about The Blade Board as they’re is currently limited information available on this – if anyone has one of these and can provide better detailed specifications please leave a comment here.
