{"id":14650,"date":"2010-03-11T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14650"},"modified":"2010-03-11T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:03:35","slug":"gentemstick-tamai-sans-snowsurfing-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14650","title":{"rendered":"Gentemstick: Tamai San&#8217;s Snowsurfing Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gentemsticks.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gentemsticks.jpg','popup','width=600,height=301,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gentemsticks-tm.jpg\" height=\"215\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Gentemsticks\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Youth Culture trend forecasters have been repeatedly pointing us toward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentemstick.com\/en\/people\/taro_tamai.html\" target=\"_blank\">Taro Tamai&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentemstick.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gentemstick<\/a><\/strong> snowboards. First it was a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3gvpIvCMt70\" target=\"_blank\">two-year-old video on Youtube<\/a><\/strong> showing the Gentemstick crew cruising snow bowls in Japan. Now it is a post on the hype blog <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolhunting.com\/design\/gentemstick-boa.php\" target=\"_blank\">CoolHunting.com<\/a><\/strong>. But what are these retro-future snowboards exactly?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An answer to the homogenization of board shapes that happened as snowboarding gained mainstream appeal, Tamai&#8217;s goal is no less than to &#8220;perfectly blend into the terrain miraculously made of snow and wind, just as if birds flying in the sky or fish flowing in the stream.&#8221; The upshot of his philosophical approach to the sport (he calls it snow-surfing) is a line of boards renowned for their flexible fins, oversized sized fish tails and rideability in almost any snow condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So are these boards the &#8220;longboard skateboards&#8221; of snowboarding? Could be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentemstick.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gentemstick<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolhunting.com\/design\/gentemstick-boa.php\" target=\"_blank\">Coolhunting<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Culture trend forecasters have been repeatedly pointing us toward Taro Tamai&#8217;s Gentemstick snowboards. First it was a two-year-old video on Youtube showing the Gentemstick crew cruising snow bowls in Japan. Now it is a post on the hype blog CoolHunting.com. But what are these retro-future snowboards exactly? An answer to the homogenization of board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14651,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions\/14651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}