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I have been working on this set up for a while, testing diffferent things, but today i came up with my first prototype of my summer snowboarding solution.
This picture was from the beggining of my session, I was problably out there for about 2 hours, just hitting this one box that I made. The box in the pic is an up-flat kink box that I used an old bench of ours to make that I just put a peice of plywood on for the up part. The drop are two saw horses that usually hold up my moms kayak, with two old 2X6s going across them and then a 1/2 inch peice of plywood on that. The actuall ramp that I drop in from is a 1X10 piece of wood that I found around the house(the duct tape marks where the ramp is, and actually its got about a inch on either side of the board before the duct tape so i didnt catch the board on the duct tape), and then the carpet on the drop in was some extra carpet we had around the house. Really all that I bought for this was the plastic on the box and the astro-turf for the landing, which were both on sale at home depot. With a little water on the drop in ramp, i definately would call it a success, plenty of speed for the box and i can slide nice and smooth across the box with plenty of space to land and time to stop.
Now i just gotta figure out a way to kite like this during the summer.....
oh man. If you have access to a truck and have an indoor Ice arena nearby, go ask them if you can have there shavings. its so much fun throwing some snow on the inramp and landing area.
Ive done that a couple times before. Its tons of fun. We had a kinda competition at a friends house this summer. We went to every ice rink we could find and loaded up trailers and trailers of snow, then went an dumped it at his house coving a BMX jump that was like a 10 foot gap with a wicked lip, and then 3 rails. Then we had a everybody puts in 10 bucks, winner takes all, rider judged jam session that lasted until the snow melted away.
Hmmmm....one of my good buddies runs the zambonie on the local rec center and the other indoor hockey rinks in town are about 4 blocks away. I drove by the ones down the road and saw three huge piles of snow just sitting there...melting...all sad looking hehe. My buddy who runs the zam has a pretty long backyard and we have trucks and trailers. Who has weekends free? If i can free up a day and get things to click together right that could be a blast!
