Slalomboard

The slalom board is a 60 to 90 cm long skateboard with slightly larger and often softer wheels ( rollers ).

Generally

The Moving a slalom board is called slalom snowboarding, slalom free ride or slalom skating. With a slalom board with little effort you can reach much higher speeds than with a freestyle skateboard. Slalom boards allow pressure in the curve or the straight street with small arch (pump) to increase the pace. Experienced drivers can overcome with slalomboards even slight inclines without having to push off with your feet on the ground.

If you want to exercise with the slalomboard various tricks you need so-called Skyhook, as not as present in the Street Skateboard Kicknose and tail. Skyhooks are ironing, under which one pushes your feet, you get grip on the board. They are mounted on the front axle and the rear axle. So you can make with the otherwise rather heavy board amazing tricks and it will open up more opportunities to use the slalom board.

Typology

Frequently Slalom boards are convex (upward curved). Thus, the ends of the board are deeper than the central part.

Race -shaped slalom boards usually have a bias. That is, the board is flexible and has in addition to the wood core of a fiber optic core. Such boards also allow to push, but you can not so tight slalom ride it like with the Tight Slalom boards.

Tight Slalom shaped slalom boards are rather shorter than the Race boards. They are stiff and have a shorter wheelbase. The stiffness tends to reduce a Wheelbite ( The rollers touch the board and block ). It also helps that the energy of pushing is not too much lost in Flex ( bending of the board ). By the shorter wheel base, the axes are less far apart. This makes it possible to take tighter turns.

Processing

The slalom board is clamped to a form (a kind of template). On the form, the woods are glued vertically or horizontally. When lying gluing thin layers of wood are superimposed. When standing gluing the wood are glued next to each other. Uses are often several layers of elastic wood, for example, ash wood. Here, one often uses a fiber, less commonly carbon layer to stabilize the board. When this operation is completed, grip tape is still adhered and screwed axes through the four holes in front and rear. The wheels have straight, not rounded edges. This makes them suitable to drive both slalom and to push.

Competitions

For slalom hangover there are competitions. In parallel slalom start after qualifying two riders simultaneously. It 's about as fast as possible, overcome a marked out with traffic cones slalom course. In the qualifying time is measured and the starting grid determined. After that is determined by a Cupverfahren the winner. When Giant Slalom starts only one driver. Also well known is the boardercross race. It has steep curves, waves and a camel hump. These races are very demanding and dangerous.

Known large slalom competitions:

• Skateboard Slalom World Cup
• Slalom World Cup
• European Championship
• U.S. Championship

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