Jarcode Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 Seems like someone got inspired from alpine snowboard plates to experiment with it for freestyle use. Their claims are all over the place about this thing (and this prototype is affixed to the board?), but it's an interesting direction if they're proposing this has a competitive edge. Claimed to operate on some "patented superslide railsystem". Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svr Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Jarcode said: Seems like someone got inspired from alpine snowboard plates to experiment with it for freestyle use. Their claims are all over the place about this thing (and this prototype is affixed to the board?), but it's an interesting direction if they're proposing this has a competitive edge. Claimed to operate on some "patented superslide railsystem". Thoughts? Interesting to see Terje endorse it. Also interesting to see Terje using Now O-drives since he is no longer with the big B. The combination of the plate and skatetech seems counter productive to me but I am not an engineer so might be pretty effective. Edited November 29, 2022 by svr Typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie00 Posted December 1, 2022 Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 I saw that as well earlier this week and was thinking the same, it looks like the first apline plates. I would think this will fade away pretty fast. They don't show the hardware. Imagine the added weight as it's pretty big vs an 19 cm waist race board and it did add quite a bit of weight. The lost of the ability to pedal "twist" the board. Seems like Terje isn't the hot commodity he used to be in the snowboard world. He is still a hell of a rider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted December 5, 2022 Report Share Posted December 5, 2022 Well, IIRC the only reason the same plates we use didn’t get adopted in BX had to do with some old guy showing up with one and smoking everyone (palm?) so a couple other athletes bitched to FIS. it makes a fair amount of sense! Just, the weight seems like a hard sell in that market. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapos Posted December 5, 2022 Report Share Posted December 5, 2022 hi, i was looking at this last week as well here is the full article about it: https://unofficialnetworks.com/2022/11/28/double-decker-snowboard/ https://www.ispo.com/en/promotion/new-snowboard-technology-doubledeck-snowboards in ISPO take on this, they say it benefits freestyle, carving and makes snowboard an easy entry for a beginner. how it is possible that it benefits all these groups. I am sure though it will be marketed as a revolutionary, completely new system to snowboarding, never seen before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuxdiesel Posted December 6, 2022 Report Share Posted December 6, 2022 It seems like a solution in search of a problem. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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