Makes 100 % sense to me and I've never surfed. I DO snowboard, so I somewhat understand what they're saying. If this ramp serves it's purpose for surfers, then who cares if Keen or anyone else makes them?? It's MADE to CARVE.....like U said, not to do liptricks on....."core" skaters sometimes are too CORE for their own good....lol.
In south east Asia we call it Wave Ramp. Most popular in Thailand. When I was in Bangkok for holiday, you can find one every 30 to 45mins away from each other. Minimal 12ft, standard around 24ft, some goes even longer. Thailand is like Land of surfskate.
When I was a snowboard instructor, I turned an expert level skater who had never touched a snowboard, into a high intermediate snowboarder, in less than 2 hours. I have no doubt he was tearing around black diamonds after a few more trips up the lift. I already had him doing ollies and popping off little jumps in the terrain. I'm also a longtime surfer and play around with other board sports. My approach was this: focus only on the parts of snowboarding that are different from skating: edges and board flex instead of wheels and kicktails. Practice using those things no matter how frustrating and ego-trashing they are. Other skills like body positioning, front to back and side to side weighting, balance while moving sideways? He already had all that wired when he showed up. A skater who wants to surf, really needs to focus on arcing and carving rather than pivoting and popping to change direction. A surfskate can be a tool for this, since in an hour of surfing, you really only stand up for seconds, not even minutes. With a surfskate you can go as long as your legs do. As an expert skater, you have a full toolkit. But as cool as it looks, doing a kickflip to fakie at the top of the ramp won't teach you anything you don't already know. With a properly tuned surfskate for your size and weight, see if you can keep going for say, 10 turns without using the kicktail or powersliding. If your wheels slip a little at the end of a top turn, that's okay, but don't try to initiate a slide. Try to use the tight turning radius of the board and just keep flowing around, up and down the ramp. Yes, there are expert level surfing maneuvers that are a bit like a nose slide, coping grinds and other coping transition tricks, but surfing requires that you learn to flow through turns, even snaps, using the rails and fins, first. Spend a little time forcing yourself to be a beginner again for a short time, and you can take skate skills to the waves pretty quickly. An expert transition skater with practice focused on the differences, can get a huge jump on anytime else trying to surf like going from beginner to advanced in a short time. Reading and judging waves, can be a lifelong study. But the mechanics of riding them can come easy to a skater with the right gameplan. 🙂
Keep your back elbow up , back knee facing more forward and hold the posture through the turn. It’s not about powering through with force , more about holding your line. Great concept , i’d love to try it out.
Dope vid🤙 glad you stepped outside your comfort zone , it will just elevate you elevating others ….., all any sport is …. Is just a way to stay fit mentally and physically once you get older….. everyone should encourage for that specific reason 🤙love ❤️
It's called a surfskate wave. No one calls it a ramp. At least not over here in Europe. We've just built one of the first, and certainly the biggest one in Belgium. Hit me up if anyone wants to come and skate it!
In south east Asia we call it Wave Ramp. Most popular in Thailand. When I was in Bangkok for holiday, you can find one every 30 to 45mins away from each other. Thailand is like Land of surfskate.
We use a large ramp at a parking garage an carve back an forth across it. If you pump right you can always end up back at the same point. Hella fun. I need to get a surf skate like this. I have a surf skate brand with the spring loaded style trucks. A bit different but similar function an really tight turns.
Yeah this is called a wave ramp. It might look small for a skateboard but it's perfect for a surfskate since you can do continuous tight carving without doing any kickturn.
They're called wave banks. The one in this video doesn't look fun to ride, too small and the transition curve is too abrupt. About 10 ft wider in both directions and a more gentle transition would be a fun wave bank to ride.
Lol... I hate when surfers go to skateparks and snake you unpredictably fully bent on their knees doing a million zigzags and softly feeling the concrete. Glad they can have their own ramp to do their weird stuff.
