{"id":5371,"date":"2009-02-17T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2009-02-18T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:34:15","slug":"deuce-the-swingbo-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5371","title":{"rendered":"Deuce: The Swingbo Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/5157-1-md.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/5157-1-md.jpg','popup','width=261,height=280,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\/2009\/02\/5157-1-md-tm.jpg\" height=\"214\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"5157 1 Md\" \/><\/a>We still don&#8217;t understand why designers want to take a perfectly simple sliding device and make it more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Take Sunnyvale, California&#8217;s <strong>Todd Belt<\/strong> for example. As a skier he wanted to snowboard, but he thought snowboards scraped too much of the good snow off the mountain, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthesnow.com\/news\/a\/5157\/dual-edge-snowboard-is-here\" target=\"_blank\">Onthesnow.com<\/a><\/strong>. So he built an articulated platform that allowed him to ski standing sideways.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because of its unique design, you ride <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deucesnowboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Deuce<\/a><\/strong> like a snowboard but enjoy all of the benefits of two shaped skis. The skis flex and carve like short shaped skis and can accommodate a 47 degree inclination into the turn. Unlike a traditional snowboard that limits the rider to carving on one long edge, the Deuce lets the rider crank out quicker, more responsive turns on two sets of edges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unique design? Wonder if anyone has had more success than the<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bomberonline.com\/vbulletin\/showthread.php?p=217249\" target=\"_blank\"> guys on the BomberOnline forum<\/a><\/strong> in explaining to Todd that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skipass.com\/photos\/imagebank\/36300.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this idea was pretty bad<\/a><\/strong> the first time it came around in the 80s when it was called the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skipass.com\/photos\/imagebank\/36300.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Swingbo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deucesnowboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deuce Snowboards<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthesnow.com\/news\/a\/5157\/dual-edge-snowboard-is-here\" target=\"_blank\">On The Snow<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still don&#8217;t understand why designers want to take a perfectly simple sliding device and make it more complicated. Take Sunnyvale, California&#8217;s Todd Belt for example. As a skier he wanted to snowboard, but he thought snowboards scraped too much of the good snow off the mountain, according to a story on Onthesnow.com. So he [&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\/5371"}],"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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}