Flowboard

The Flow Board is a form of the skateboard, which tries to mimic the properties of a snowboard. This concerns in particular the carving.

Design and operation

The Flow Board consists of a skateboard -like deck shall be secured to the front and rear metal sheets, each with about seven roles. Through these arches the deck can change the angle to the road and it can carving movements are performed. The flow board can be used like a normal skateboard or a snowboard during downhill driving. The first prototypes were built in 1993 and 1994 patents.

Use

By building with the rollers attached to the metal sheets, it is possible to tilt the board up to 45 ° to the road. This can be very wide carving movements are performed. For comparison, a normal skateboard about 25 ° inclines to the street. When driving normally affect only two or four wheels to the ground.

Video clip

• Music video with flow boarding