Freeriding?

**Bigg Oskee** · 05-11-2008 01:50 PM

Just a quick question what is freeriding?

**nokeboarder** · 05-11-2008 06:18 PM

i think it's about riding down big hills just for fun, not racing, not worrying about how fast your going, adding some style etc. however i do think it's closely related to downhill

**nokeboarder** · 05-11-2008 06:20 PM

i also feel drifting is a big part of it

**junglepunk999** · 05-11-2008 06:27 PM

ugh im done with dh......

god my wrist hurts.

**neuros** · 05-11-2008 06:39 PM

Riding down huge hills while taking advantage of as much pavement as possible, chilling and hanging with buds at speed, and having fun enjoying the ride

**Xgecko** · 05-11-2008 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by neuros

Riding down huge hills while taking advantage of as much pavement as possible, chilling and hanging with buds at speed, and having fun enjoying the ride

The only thing I would add is that to me Freeriding is also carving

**Bigg Oskee** · 05-11-2008 08:09 PM

o ok that makes sense and sounds like something i could get into thanks guys!

**Fishtale Boards** · 05-11-2008 08:11 PM

for me it would be the nice mellow hills that you can carve up and put some dancin into, basically the colton style is the epitome of freeriding for me.

**jeffrey** · 05-11-2008 08:49 PM

does anyone know any good free riding board?

**Fishtale Boards** · 05-11-2008 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by jeffrey

does anyone know any good free riding board?

arbor pintail. any thing with concave really. just has to feel good to you since freeriding is so generic.

**Cirquedaddy** · 05-11-2008 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Fishtale Boards

for me it would be the nice mellow hills that you can carve up and put some dancin into, basically the colton style is the epitome of freeriding for me.

I would define that as dancing. Free riding for me is expressive, creative riding that falls out of any defined catagory.

When I was in Ski Race camps as a kid the coach would often let us take runs between our drills, practice runs, and coaching sessions. He would say "Go take a free ski". For us it meant skiing fast, sneaking into the terrain parks (when they were snowboard only). We were just going nuts on the mountain and skiing any way that came to our minds to blow off steam. I think thats where the term Freeskiing came from in that sport.

And I think in skating it means the same thing. Just taking a hill and riding it in any way that comes to your mind in the moment that falls outside of defined diciplines such as DH, Slalom, Pumping.

I think before manufacturers started making hybrid speedboard/hard carving decks for experts and calling them "Freeride" they were calling them "carving" decks.