Extreme Sports Equipment - One Man And His Mountain Board
Sometimes he rides alone, at one with the world around him
, embracing life, wind in his hair and a huge jump approaching along with the threat of multiple broken bones as he hurtles down the mountain at breakneck speed! This is the devoted life of an extreme sports enthusiast.
He rises long before dawn, packing up the 4x4 with boards, wheels and helmets, leaving just enough room for his equally dedicated wife and a large bottle of water. A long drive lies ahead but this will be a joyful journey, reminiscing about previous death defying feats and leaps and speculating on this weekend's prospect of big air! The weather forecast is good, just the right amount of wind from the right direction and a cloudless sky.
Last week they went to the lake in the north and leapt like salmon up and over the wake, performing front side backawashie's (that should so be genuine trick name!) all day long. The week before the pristine powders of Mount Extreme had greeted them and treated them to some dreamy snowboarding moments.
Next week the van would be packed with all the climbing gear and the thought of clinging to a rock face thousands of feet above the ground kept the conversation bubbling along.
This weekend was all about mountain boarding though, which is a sort of snowboarding without the snow and with added wheels and a sort of skateboarding with added mountain!
A relatively new sport, having only really been around since the early nineties, its an excellent alternative to snowboarding, especially in climates that are seriously lacking some major snow.
The mountain board itself looks a lot like a skateboard to the lay person or from a distance but its an altogether more robust piece of kit that needs to be thrown down the mountainside on various kinds of terrain including dirt, gravel, mud and rock.
If a skateboard was a car then a mountain board might be an all terrain tractor! The wheels or trucks are bigger and the axel wider. Adjustable bindings keep the riders well strapped onto the board whilst flying through the air yet still allowing movement for those all important steering elements!
Whatever the weekends sport of choice, the enthusiast is going nowhere very fast without all the extreme sports equipment that make the events possible and safer for each participant. That's where the stores come in handy, especially the ones that can be found online these days, that stock every bit of equipment you are likely to need as you head out into the wild.
by: James Johnson
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