skiing on dry land

[nosnowski]

I've seen something like this on the bike path that athletes use as a summer training tool. They weren't quite the same.
Do these need a slope or can you skate with them?

What you have seen were most likely XC roller skis with rigid wheels that do not turn sideways. It's possible to build a lighter dual purpose version with a special binding holding your calves which could be used with sports shoes rather than ski boots.

I use my device for training and physical exercise. When I skate ski uphill it's quite a strenuous exercise. I prefer this to jogging which is s#%t boring. The beauty of it is that wheels with ball bearings allow you to go quite fast on just a slightly sloping surface so it's pretty easy to find the right place for doing it practically everywhere.

[nogophers]

I have a used pair of these if you want.

http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/images/...is_rollka1.jpg

Heavy as shit and a bit tough to stop.

[nosnowski]

I have a used pair of these if you want.

http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/images/...is_rollka1.jpg

Heavy as shit and a bit tough to stop.

I tried them too and that's why I started experimenting with my current design. Even pros find it hard to control rolling tread based grass skis, check the video below. With my gear I can make much tighter turns and control speed much better not to mention that I have brakes.

[BackCountryNC]

A for effort. They just look a little fruity.

[buckethead]

The guy in the video is Blake Saunders who has not really been acknowledged for his epic rock skiing. He had quite a few cuts and bruises from the fall off the cliff and had to use scissors to cut his skin off and remove little rocks.

epic indeed! skiing the rocks and drops like it's bottomless pow...watching those knee extensions at the beginning made mine hurt...spill at the end looked nasty indeed.
i guess a kevlar jumpsuit would just be asking for taking more chances.

still looks much safer than couch racing.
can't imagine all three of those guys walked away from that wreck.

understand desire to replicate movements of skiing during off season.

i know i could certainly use that...but that's what the first month of the season is for


^^^ those racers love their tights...beyond aesthetics, why not go baggy. seems they carry too much speed and those treads don't allow for skidding. too short too.

[nosnowski]

i guess a kevlar jumpsuit would just be asking for taking more chances. still looks much safer than couch racing.

You need something more bouncy for protection, maybe like that

understand desire to replicate movements of skiing during off season. i know i could certainly use that...but that's what the first month of the season is for

Replicating the movement and exercise is what it is about but it's still fun. You can close your eyes and imagine that you are on the snow ... or maybe better not. Don't get me wrong there is no substitute for snow and the vibe of winter mountains.

I would like to go off road onto some dirt tracks but would need to make the whole thing from scratch with larger 8" mountain board wheels and bigger clearance under the beam. Can't be bothered now since we are getting pretty good snow falls in Victorian Alps.

[Lamothe]

Brilliant idea. I'll check with my boss if he wants to move his company to a country with good mountains and snow. Divorcing my wife and leaving the kids behind should be easy.

now your thinking like a skier ...wait was that sarcasm?

[alpinevibes]

This seems like a perfect opportunity for Turbo to blow some minds:

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Put some Rax fins on the back and you'll be able to take those things anywhere.

[buckethead]

mind=blown indeed

good stuff

monoboard=2 less edges to rip out

[Cocximus]

This seems like a perfect opportunity for Turbo to blow some minds:

Wow. Uber RAD.

[Jer]

Can somebody here PM Dexter Rutecki and alert him to the exsistence of this thread? He's got me on ignore.

[XXX-er]

bahaha fuck , i was going to post this



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This was THE last Sandblast run ever ^^^ ending a 32 yr event, thats me the timer on the right skiers course, I noticed the course had a crown that was sending riders left so I got up out of the way for the furniture runs and suggested the guy on the left do the same cuz furniture doesnt steer at all, so buddy was almost hit, his GF WAS hit and I remember it knocked her top up/off and her tits were showing, as bad as the run looked I don't think anyone was seriously hurt

junior won that race overall with 2 runs in < 20seconds total on his Banshee scream but with all the carnage the usual awards didn't take place which was anti climatic and Sandblast was completely done for the very last time


The race started with skiing then boarding then bikes then the ill-fated furniture class, bikes are fastest.The ditch at the bottom would have a little hay however much they could get donated for free which was never enough, my buddy Siebe who has won told me "you let the ditch catch you " over the years many people got hurt and I mean broken bones and serious rash, the voly ski patrol was almost always guarantied to see some action, there was always a couple of doz cases of beer and lots of dope up at the starting gate which was remote enough to keep most people away

I did it on my FR hard tail (with the disk brakes) raced and beat an off duty cop, wasn't last but just roster filler, I got the t-shirt but no fucking way I would do it on skis

You can have skiing on gravel

[nosnowski]

... I remember it knocked her top up/off and her tits were showing ...

OMG, that sounds like a horrible accident but this is one of the risks of summer downhill events

[XXX-er]

With all the excitement/carnage besides her boyfriend the other timer, I was the only person looking over there trying to get the time who noticed her top had been knocked off but actualy ... she had really nice tits

[nosnowski]

SandBoard World Cup

[nosnowski]

If you need to waste your time, scour patent applications and/or invent a device like this to make up for not skiing more than 10 days a year.

You wouldn't believe how many people have wasted their time trying to invent a device for skiing with no snow for over half a century. It's not only about skiing but also an engineering challenge and there is interesting Physics behind it, at least in case of my gear. For me it was an on and off thing and mainly thinking. I used a skilled machine guy to build this and the other one that didn't work as well.

[XXX-er]

that looks like fine beach sand

the "sand " of Sandblast was some what of a misnomer cuz the Nechako cut banks are really gravel/ some sand/ pieces of drift wood/ maybe some trash/rocks some as big as yer head

Sandblast was a pretty raw ruff & ready event,testament to the "true grit" of the hardy folk of Northern BC

[jahoney]

can you bomb hills in those? or is that just asking for a blown out knee(s)

[atkinsonvt]

Sylvain Saudan on no-snow skiing.

I got to do a spring run in Cham with him a few years ago and he skied right through the mud and rock like it was snow. He was in his mid-seventies then.

[nosnowski]

can you bomb hills in those? or is that just asking for a blown out knee(s)

They're quite stable at higher speeds. I go faster in one of the youtube videos but I wouldn't call it bombing. I'm a bit too old for this and I have one knee already blown (ACL) from playing footbal. They have normal ski bindings and since you don't really do any edging you can set them to quite low DIN to protect your knees if you go down.

[Alaskan Rover]

Sylvain Saudan on no-snow skiing.

I got to do a spring run in Cham with him a few years ago and he skied right through the mud and rock like it was snow. He was in his mid-seventies then.

Ha ha....I like this guy!! This guy rocks!!!! "When you go to the mountains, you have to accept ze conditions as zey are....it's ze reason when I do ze 'ard training...I even ski on ze stones....skiing on stones."

I bet that guy CAN ski on pretty much anything.

He sort of reminds me of an old homesteader friend from Homer...Yule Kilcher (Jewel Kilcher's grandfather), and the stories he could tell of a life lived full-on.

Guys like that are a rare commodity.

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[BmillsSkier]

Can somebody here PM Dexter Rutecki and alert him to the exsistence of this thread? He's got me on ignore.

True.

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[atkinsonvt]

AK Rover, maybe you should check out Sylvan a little more. He is sort of famous in the ski world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Saudan

[geoffda]

Hi,
I have been playing with devices that simulate skiing on dry land for a number of years and have come up with something that feels quite a bit like it. Each "ski" is about 1 meter (3.3 feet) long, has two wheels which turn sideways when you tip your knees to the edge. The front and rear wheels turn in the opposite direction in a synchronized way thus simulating the side cut + camber operation. The more you tip your knees the more the "ski" turns. The turning radius and "longitudinal rigidity" are both adjustable.

Before coming up with this thing, I scoured the Internet, patent databases etc. to see if there's anything that truly simulates carving, does not require pivoting like in all sorts of short in-inline skate type devices and is easier to control than rolling tread grass ski. I have been asking skiers around the world, mainly in different forums, what they think about it and would appreciate comments of this forum.

Did you consider Harb Carvers? On the face of it, they would seem to accomplish what you have set out to do. I have a pair and I can attest to the fact that they accurately simulate the movements of skiing. I'm pretty certain they are patented. http://harbskisystems.com/index.php?...chk=1&Itemid=1