whats snowskate shoudl i buy?

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Sep 12, 2005 12:50 am Post subject: whats snowskate shoudl i buy?

hey guy i am jsut wondering whether to buy a bi-level or a single deck snowskate, i am buying one this year and i wanna do rails and stuff so its gotta be nice...also has anyone ever carved on a single deck snowskate?

thanks

c dub · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 1171 City: Austin

If your going to do rails then you should buy a bi-level snowskate. I have the burton refuge and I love it on box's/jumps. If I were you I would either get the Burton Junkyard because it slides rails fine and has easy landings of jumps. Personally I would not get a single deck snowskate.

K'jellman · Posted: Sep 12, 2005 7:13 am Post subject:

Has anyone tried the burton approach skate? if so.. what's it like? seems pretty sweet..

http://www.burton.com/eu/gear/products.asp?productID=99&shortMaterialNumber=B6210300

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

yeah the approach is sick, I hate bi decks, but the approach is a nice link between the two styles of decks

cfxomega · Frontside 180 Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 466

snowskating needs to grow up and have bigger decks...bigger deck + bigger bottom deck = more control
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St.ClaireSkate · Ollie Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 96 City: Corunna

my advice on the hill would be to strap.snow skating isnt as fun as snowboarding

c dub · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 1171 City: Austin

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

matter or opinion I think the closer the skate size stays to real skateboards the faster/better the progression. . . .and I prefer snowskating to snowboarding hands down I havent ridden my snowboard in over a year

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Sep 13, 2005 12:40 am Post subject:

haha yah an di live an hour from the mountain but i ahve a lot of hills around my place that a snowskate would be sick on, so i a thinking i am liking the approach, but i mean the junkyard i think would feel more likea real skateboard...so i am up in the air i guess what ever i can get is what i will get...thanks for your imput guys

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

the junkyard bites. . go approach

HatzicScape112 · Posted: Sep 13, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject:

well can you carve on the approach all the technical wording they used on the site soprta threw me off. but i want more of a skateboard feel than a snowboard feel that i think the approach would give considering its lower to the ground.

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

so i hear GNU snowskates are good? I'm 6ft tall 180 lbs. which decks should I look into?

I'll want to do jump, rails, and whatever. I've snowboarded for 11 years and love it, so i wont be giving that up, but it would be fun as hell to setup some terrain to ride in my parents backyard up at our cabin. when the roads are covered with snow it would be pretty badass to have a truck pull me around on the snowskate too Twisted Evil

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

well Liek I said before Im not real impressed with bidecks. . but there are some good ones out there the Gnu ones are Ok personally I like what Premier has to offer the neat thing about a premier is you can get a good wood flat deck like the team deck with the 2-4-1 option which makes it so you can have it as a bideck or a single level skate if your not to sure what youd prefer Id say get a premier if you decide you want a bilev you can just buy the kit

K'jellman · Posted: Sep 13, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject:

the approach deck kinda seems to be the perfect option.. since it's possible to edging turns.. and from what I hear the bottom deck ( or ski or whatever) doesn't seem to catch on the rails at all like the bi-decks do..

what do you think ??????