How to Freeboard
Skateboarding came to popularity in the 1970s and it has only grown since then. Also on the rise are extreme sports, which come up with new and innovative ways to play a sport, often by combining it with something else. Freeboarding could be called a cross between snowboarding and skateboarding, although the falls to the pavement are most likely rougher than those in the snow.
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Instructions
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Learn how to skateboard. It's extremely difficult to try a new, revolutionary piece of equipment if you are not already comfortable with the original.
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Watch other people or videos of others using the freeboard to see how they move their bodies to adjust to the movement.
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Buy a freeboard after testing it to make sure it is the right size and length for you. Ask as many questions as possible before buying, because the wrong board could mean a serious injury.
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Practice freeboarding on relatively flat areas (no overly steep hills) with low traffic. Since the freeboard is built to spin completely in all directions, you will have to train your body to adjust to its motion.
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Tips & Warnings
Freeboard's founder, Steen Strand, began building his freeboard prototypes in 1995. He did it because he desperately wanted to bring the feeling of snowboarding to the streets.
A freeboard is built with six wheels: the regular four in the same place but set wider out and a pivot wheel at each end. As the rider skates down a hill, only two of the four main wheels are ever touching the ground all at the same time, along with the two wheels in the center.
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Shiromi
Jan 10, 2011
Actually freeboarding is much closer to snowboarding that skateboarding. It might even be more difficult to freeboard if you are stuck thinking about the skills you learned from snowboarding.
