Snowskating is riding on a flat skate deck on snow. Sometimes snowskates are attached to a ski and are called a "bideck" or "bilevel" snowskate. Snowskating combines the elements of snowboarding and skateboarding to create a new experience which is most closely described as skateboarding on snow, or Snowskating.

History and Designs of Snowskates

The snowskate, according to skisk8.com, was first invented at a bonfire party when an old skateboard deck was combined with a broken ski, creating the bideck snowskate. Later on, Burton would make the bideck model popular and Premier Snowskates created a plastic, single deck model. Today the single deck snowskate is generally more widespread for tricks. The single deck type is made out of wood with a p-tex base or plastic with rubber foam for grip on the top. The bideck consists of a skateboard deck mounted by special trucks to a mini snowboard or ski. Bidecks generally have more control for riding but require more balance for tricks. Single decks have little direction control but, due to construction, are capable of many tricks.

Companies involved in the sport

More and more companies have joined this sport including Premier, Criteria, Narmerton Inc., Vans Shoes, Burton, Transworld, World Industries, Ambition Clothing, Switchfilms, Bideck, Gnu, Varient3, Skisk8 and more. Switchfilms, the first independent snowskate film company has put out 3 full length snowskate DVD films with their latest being Adieu

See also

External links

• Premier Snowskate - snowskate manufacturer
• Whitewash Zine - snowskating webzine
• Localjerk - snowskating site
• Snowskate.ca - snowskating site
• skisk8.com - snowskating site

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