Your stay at The Remolition Space Hotel

Borag Thung, friends. We trust you will enjoy your visit to Planet Mountainboard, located a long long time ago in Galaxy IOK-1 - a distance of approximately 12.9 billion light years from Earth (that's far, far away).

The Remolition Mothership arrived sometime ago on it's epic space journey and began terraforming the already idyllic mountainous planet into a rider's paradise. (There may have been some hostile blue natives we had to perseude first but they quickly come round to the idea of constant wheelieboard enlightenment)...

The Hotel features:

• Unique turfed/concrete spiral-roof for riding when you can't be arsed to go far (with anti-grav lift back to the top)
• Awesome cafe & restaurant with full room service, 37 hours a day.
• Secure board store & de-pad room with odour vaporisation chamber.
• Rooms feature TV, dvd, internet, xbox, ps3, Shower, bath, & transmogrifier.
• Free in-room massages & board servicing by hot aliens.

Set in grounds of almost half a million acres, The Remolition Space Hotel is just the start of what Planet Mountainboard has to offer...

• Personal auto-remote shuttle-craft to take you where you want (eg, top of the hill, next zone, Rem Mothership for a party, bed etc)
• Quantum bx
• interstellar jib territory
• regional viewing chill-cafs (great for watching the suns set)
• meta-phasic street & skatepark
• Over 100,000 km of tracks, paths and runs of all levels, with woodland, forest, lawn, rugged rocks, dirt quarries, live volcanos, you can dream it, it's here.

Download the full Planet Mountainboard wallpaper at remolition.com.

Bring your friends, good times await. Enjoy your stay. Ride your dreams TM ;)

while spreading the word of mountainboarding I found this;

The History of Freebording

Author:

Brock

Extreme Athletes Conquer Mother Nature With Technology!

Sometime in the mid 1990s when the X Games were just coming into their own and athletes were just starting to go 'extreme,' a group of snowboarders and inventors got together under the direction of Steen Strand and created the unique sport of Freebording. Essentially, Strand wanted to combine the grace and ease of lateral movement (or 'sliding') that snowboarding allows with the year-round fun of skateboarding. He knew that if he could recreate the motion boarders loved on the slopes without the snow that he would have something spectacular.

Freebording Started In a Garage . . .

Strand teamed up with Bayard Winthrop and the two began manufacturing prototypes in Strand\'s Garage. The first usable Freebords were essentially standard long boards with a pair of caster wheels bolted to the bottom just behind the trucks. These caster wheels simulate the gliding action that a snowboard\'s base allows. Eventually Strand extended the hangers on those trucks so that the wheels stuck out past the edges of the Freebord in order to simulate the grabbing action of a snowboard\'s steel edge.

Freebords appealed to riders, especially in those in the underground skating/boarding scene in California (many of whom were featured in mid-90\' skate documentaries like Concrete Powder, Science Friction, and Never Winter) and flourished.

Technology Improves the Ride

However radical those first Freebords were, they weren\'t exactly perfect. The caster wheels had a tendency to vomit ball bearings, the boards themselves were long and ungainly, and they lacked any sort of binding—relying solely on skateboard grip tape. Over the years, Freebording, the sport and the equipment itself, have undergone some fundamental changes.

On the technical side, the boards have shrunk to more manageable sizes and weights in addition to losing their kick tails. The casters have undergone numerous redesigns, ending with a piece of machined hardware that keeps its ball bearings snug and tight. In addition, the trucks\' base plates have been significantly widened for stability and strength. Also, the composites used in the construction of the Freebord wheels have changed, allowing for greater variations in hardness which widens the styles of Freebording that riders can enjoy.

However, the most noticeable addition to the Freebord\'s original design is the adjustable S2 binding system which allows the Freebord rider a much great level of control and stability in any situation. The bindings weren\'t actually one of Strand\'s design elements. They were invented out of necessity by a California rider who lost a foot to cancer. The rider (whose name is Tim) rigged his own binding to keep his artificial limb from sliding off his Freebord, and when Strand heard about this homemade rig he incorporated the bindings into the final design.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/extreme-sports-articles/the-history-of-freebording-4106777.html

About the Author

Written by the avid freeborders at Freebordsite.com, your source for everything you need to know about freebords and freebording.

Rihanna's hills...

This caught my eyes (not ears) after watching music teev for a bit... ooh na na, what's her name has shot another vid that's a delight for wheeliboardologists.
She said about it "It's really, really beautifully shot in these crazy, crazy, crazy places, We shot landscapes that we found a couple hours outside of L.A. It looks so unreal. It looks fake, like something out of a postcard with the beautiful hills."

You can't help thinking that some riders shredding about the place would've spiced things up a bit more...

btw, there's no more lovely scenery after u see her on a pikie wooden ladder structure in the middle of a lake surrounded by balloons - (art directors have a lot to answer for... ;)

different lines, the zen side of sapling bashing

Freestyle centre monkeys make a lot fuss about learning and landing new tricks. Some lucky ones get to the first to make up and land tricks in mountainboard progression. It's also the yard stick all free sports measure them selves. By what has just been invented and what most people have dialled.

If, on the other hand your boarding tastes are different from spending your riding time hitting the same jump over and over again or riding the same track till you turn your legs to jelly. Then the chances are the creative angle of mountainboarding which floats your boat. Is the endless search for the next new line. Most riders who have the searching gene start by looking at maps for tracks which fit the right looking contour lines. But as time and searching goes on for some, riding tracks and trails which have been walked, ridden and used others before. Doesn't satisfy the need to find their own line. And they start looking beyond, Viewing the slope as a whole. Knowing it's going to be down them and how they view the terrain. As to if they forge the new line they can see in their minds eye. Sometimes it might not the fastest or the easiest but when you get to the bottom and look back and see your tracks. Nothing beats the feeling of sanctification you get from knowing that those tracks are the first tracks.

There was a time when snowboarders pretty much had the monopoly on that feeling. Now though, we can get that same feeling all year round without having to jump on a plane.

Viva the mountainboard :-)

Chalet Girl conquers her fears & enjoys the ride

This one's for everyone who's got mates that are away for the season shredding the white stuff :)

If you are the one away on your snowboard: enjoy this re-make of your life, from her perspective, with untold lashings of the strongest hollywood romcom cheese applied. Alternatively, weep. rotfl

I wonder if they are studying geography

Surely if you are a dedicated mountainboarder then Plymouth is the only uni worth going to. With their own society dedicated to all types of downhill wheelie boarding. And if you have been wondering what they get up to between studying, drinking cider and eating potnoddles then here's their website. With all the vids from their different mountainboard adventures over the last couple of years.

The first of this years visual offerings is a classic mountainboarders spot hunting mission.

Spot X 05/01/11 from Simon Neck on Vimeo.

What can go wrong when you have watched ATC going on a big adventure, looked on google maps. Then head out hunting with a car full of boarders, a hand drawn map and a satnav.

With a bit of luck there should be a full articul appearing over on Rem central giving the full low down on all things PUATB. For now if want to get find out where they are at and what they are thinking here's their space on facebook

Lo-Fi Sk8 Radness

As the festive excesses of December & new year become a hazy memory, you may find yourself wondering if anything could possibly improve the mid-January funk...

Then you get a day when the date looks cool and you find some amazing inspiring videos and you know it'll all be alright again soon ;)

I forgot to mention yesterday, but just incase

Like me you have been have problems reading ade's blog. He has had the movers in packed his boxs and changed address to the-dirt-box.blogspot.com

It also looks like judging by his banner santa might have left a shiny new deck in his stocking.

not a blue bird fresh-ey, more like gray crispy

So this has been sitting in my head and the pics on my phone. Burning away as another blog which needs to written. With plans afoot to head to W1 not Westminster but to Rems top shred spot Wendover Woods this sunday. Is it is high time to sit down at the keyboard and waffled about the joys solo shredding and freshly dropped leaves.

As all snowboards know the best days riding come when you get a decent layer of the fresh, fluffy white stuff coupled with the sun and blue skys. Hence the phase "a blue bird freshy"

For mountainbaorders we have the same or you do if you are into your freeriding. Ours comes only for a couple of weeks a year when the trees have just lost the leaves. Meaning the woods are carpeted in the ultimate sapling bashing surface. Just right for drawing your own line through the trees, drifting through turns, throwing rooster trails from your wheels, And sliding to a stop in satisfying ball of crunchy dead leaves. Who said snowboards had the monopoly of riding their own lines in the trees.

It was this which saw me head out to Wendover a few sundays before the Christmas madness started. To enjoy a few hours alone the woods with my thoughts and ideas. Just heading down through the trees making my line as I went. Its was a bit foggy but that didn't matter and it did start to rain when I was far away from my car as I could get. Which only added to the feeling getting away hum of daily life. You get when ride into the hidden valley at the hart of Wendover woods.

True food for the soul.

SlowMo BMX Radness

A quick but slow beautiful bmx vid for your viewing pleasure... It's crushed blacks, 16 mm look and general post-production treatments makes everything (especially the rain) look cooler than cool. Feast your eyes.

New Year's Day field report

Deangarden/Keephill/ Fennel's Woods, High Wycombe, Bucks (Wycombe Summit (ex)dry ski slope in background above). Sweeeeeeet first day of the year for Roger, Smilie & me. Hope you had a good one too :)

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