squirmboard

[sk8norcal]

cross between freeline and snakeboard...
( i have a similar idea for a snakeboard that leans..)

YouTube - Squirmboard inline skateboard

[Bookworm]

all the other names have been taken? squirmboard?

it's exactly freelines, except for people who are too pussy to build up their kegels. the true power in freelines that makes them so much better than all these other BS inventions is the variable wheelbase capability.

fools.

[Gomer]

cross between freeline and snakeboard..

Here is his patent application -
Balancing skateboard - Google Patent Search

[Gomer]

cross between freeline and snakeboard...
( i have a similar idea for a snakeboard that leans..)

YouTube - Squirmboard inline skateboard

I like some of the "non-preferred embodiments" he has further down.

[Gomer]

( i have a similar idea for a snakeboard that leans..)

Does this one lean?

Skateboards - Google Patent Search

[pavedwave]

no rebound mechanism = no acceleration = FAIL

[miSSionary]

Great, freelines with training wheels.
Nice "originality" with the theft of the freeline skate design and lack of skill to feel the need to put a pole between the skates for more balance than freelines...it should be called the pole dancer and you should have to be one big tool to use it.

Sorry for rant.

[sk8norcal]

Does this one lean?

Skateboards - Google Patent Search

YES!! good fine! that the idea I was talking about in the snakeboard thread...

I would like to see that board in action..

[sk8norcal]

no rebound mechanism = no acceleration = FAIL

not true with the snaking action...

guys that are good on snakeboard can accelerate very fast...

i seen one guy that will beat most slalomers in flat land pumping...

[sk8norcal]

all the other names have been taken? squirmboard?

they should call it the "wormboard'...

it's exactly freelines, except for people who are too pussy to build up their kegels. the true power in freelines that makes them so much better than all these other BS inventions is the variable wheelbase capability.

fools.

freeline is sideway rollerblading..

[Thrash]

it's like doing the charleston and being a loser at the same time

[Gomer]

Here is a quad version I saw some time ago.

Individual foot-skates for ... - Google Patent Search

There was a Youtube video of the prototype being ridden by the inventor but I couldn't find it. Seems like it was under search words like "best skate invention, snakeboard, skateboard with words like articulated and quad in there somewhere.

It is a pretty simple torsion spring truck system. They looked like they carved really well and had the wiggle propulsion of a snake board too. Would you a little or a lot of steering resistance and tilt angle?

Add the Sqirmboard's additional degrees of articulation and you have a board that is fully articulated on every axis.

[pavedwave]

not true with the snaking action...

guys that are good on snakeboard can accelerate very fast...

i seen one guy that will beat most slalomers in flat land pumping...

possibly on the short course, but with far more effort, and I can't see that same guy keeping up for any serious distance.

they'll also still be stuck when it comes to launching down big hills, unless they're just stupidly insane, which I guess the double backflips videos prove is true. i'd like to see how well they footbrake at 35mph, and how they carve and shave off speed.

[sk8norcal]

Great, freelines with training wheels.
Nice "originality" with the theft of the freeline skate design and lack of skill to feel the need to put a pole between the skates for more balance than freelines...it should be called the pole dancer and you should have to be one big tool to use it.

Sorry for rant.

kind of ironic to hear freeliners bashing other designs, when most skaters think freeliners are sideway rollerblading tools...

[sk8norcal]

they'll also still be stuck when it comes to launching down big hills, unless they're just stupidly insane, which I guess the double backflips videos prove is true. i'd like to see how well they footbrake at 35mph, and how they carve and shave off speed.

there is a guy in europe that downhills on them,
I been trying to find a video of him forever..
what footbrake?! they are strapped in...

[sk8norcal]

Here is a quad version I saw some time ago..

seen that too... sideskates...

it's like the rollerskate version of freeline (aka sideway inlines)

fyi, rollerskaters can do similar deal, they call it 'side surfing'....

YouTube - sideskate prototype demonstration

there is also BBYHDS... babyheads..

YouTube - bbyhds

[TM_Cruzer]

Talk about foot bite.....

[pavedwave]

there is a guy in europe that downhills on them,
I been trying to find a video of him forever..
what footbrake?! they are strapped in...

i'm sure the squirmboard guys are looking desperately for that "one guy" as well, for their next marketing video

[sk8norcal]

actually from that squirmboard video, he seems to do ok downhilling on it... those freeliners downhill too.. but they look kinda sketchy...

snakeboard feels real weird to me going down a hill even at a very slow speed, cause it doesn't lean...

[Bookworm]

kind of ironic to hear freeliners bashing other designs, when most skaters think freeliners are sideway rollerblading tools...

because freelines are an effective design, and this is EXACTLY freelines, but stuck together, which eliminates a massive amount of what makes freelines both so tricky to learn, and so amazingly orgasmic once you can take advantage of that.