Find out about Streetboards

Do remember when skateboarding first appeared and skateboards were enough?  It seems now that the market has been influxed with a variety of skateboard like boards which offer something a little bit different from the original skateboard and open up new individuals to skate sports.

The 1st of these hybrid boards I can think back to were the snakeboards.  Back 1990’s in Great Britain this board had grown quite a cult following in extreme sports circles and I can remember skating with quite a few of individuals who had picked up on the sport.  This is following it’s invention in 1989 by James Fisher and Oliver Macleod Smith.   The snakeboard, at the time, offered a revolutionary design where two plates were connected via a bar with the feet bound to these plates.  The rider would then move his or her feet in an S motion (where the name snakeboard comes from) to propel the skater along.  Sadly, in the late 90’s the company was sold to MV Sports in England who ruined snakeboarding by making low quality models for high street shops  and eventually ceasing production.  Fortunately for you and I, new companies have taken over the mantle these days and are producing highly popular and far better models that we could lay our hands on back in the nineties.

The revolutionary boards, dubbed Street Boards, are designed in a similar way to original skateboards instead the front and rear sections now move separately to the main part of the board and are fitted with snakeboard like bindings to secure the rider to the streetboard like the previous snakeboards did.  The boards are now made by a variety of companies such as Flipside Streetboards, Dimension Streetboards, Highland Streetboards and GrossO Boards.

This exciting sport streetboarding has grown so popular that that there is also a world championship which is being held at NASS.  This festival is the number 1 action sports fesitval featuring competitions in skate, bmx, fmx, inline, mountain biking and le parkour.

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