Posts Tagged ‘poland’
WFD Poland
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Poland Represent
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Adam and the Polish crew went out in full force last weekend to represent Europe. What’s your secret getting the girls out to ride?
Snowboard that doesn’t need snow
Friday, November 21st, 2008Congrats Adam and Freebord Poland for securing this feature in a major Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. Read below for the translation…
Snowboard that doesn’t need any snow
by Agnieszka DrabikowskaThey love snowboarding and they were looking for something which could substitute it in the summertime. They’ve found it.
Widoma Mountain, 392.3 meters above the sea level, Swietokrzyskie Province. Good asphalt, almost no traffic, numbers of houses end on 20. From the distance they look like they’re sliding on the snow. Because the Freebord board, though it resembles a skateboard, has nothing in common with it. Four wheels placed on long trucks replace snowboard edges. Owing to them they can carve. In addition to these there are two wheels in the middle which rotate by 360 degrees.
“They work as a base in snowboard. Therefore we can control the speed, go down in unlimited directions and stop exactly in the same way as on snowboard. Perceives and feeling of freedom are the same. Even one day some elder lady accosted me and astonished she said: – You look like you would ride on the snow, but there is summer indeed! – Andrzej Gadkowski from Kielce explains with passion.
His friend from Los Angeles told him about this new sport. – “One day I was grumbling to him about Polish short winters, there is no snow and no place to ride. He responded that he had seen there on TV some guys riding on the streets as on the snow. I brought the board from the USA and it just began.” – he says fastening the board.
Robert: “Freebord gives me so much freedom. It doesn’t depend on weather conditions, you needn’t to pay for any lifts and you can ride practically everywhere.”
Tomek Kuzmierz is a manager of information technology in a big bank in Cracow. On June 4th he came to Widoma together with his wife in order to take the first steps in Freebord. They were looking for a sport which would give them as much joy as their beloved snowboard. They tried surfing, but they agreed that it won’t substitute snowboarding.
In Widoma, Tomek has caught the bug: “This board won’t get outside of my car boot so far. Now I can go somewhere with out my wife, but never without my Freebord.”
Tomasz Urbanski, the President of Polish Snowboard Association, has heard about riding on Freebord. “Snowboarding emerged just from skateboard, and Freebord is like a successive stage of the snowboard’s evolution. If this sport makes snowboard fans happy we should only be glad of that, by all means we support such initiatives. I haven’t tried Freebord myself, but if I have a chance I will do it for sure” he declares.
Poland Represent
Monday, September 15th, 2008Just starting to get the hang of it and the Poles are lookin good so far…Eastern Bloc represent!
Aktivist Magazyn
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Poland is on fire with another sweet press hit – this time in Aktivist, a free magazine on music, fashion and sports. Congrats Hoppe, Stevie-B, Tim, Bob and Howley on the great pics. Translation in the comments – thanks Adam!
Hiro Mag <3’s Freebord
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Hiro Magazyn, a sweet Polish magazine on art, music, culture and action sports included a feature on Freebord in their June issue. Awesome 4-page spread with color pics of Hoppe, Tim, Elijah Teter and Chris Rotax – plus a half page article on the Freebord ride. Thanks Adam for the translation!
I’ve wondered so many times what is the summer equivalent for snowboarding? I was thinking among the other things about mountainboard, but it wasn’t that great. Why? The answer is simple, but it still isn’t well-known in Poland – Freebord, a new board on our home market for snowboarding in summer on the streets.
Freebord is a board which lets you feel on the streets the same way as on the snow-covered slopes somewhere in the high Alps. Its construction was made that way to imitate sliding, stopping, carving, and other things you can do riding the simple snowboard.
How to ride on it and why is it better than longboard and mountainboard?
Full speed control. The outer wheels in Freebord work like the edges in snowboard, giving you the full control over speed and let you ride down even in the steepest streets.
Ride on the switch. When the outer wheels imitate the edges of the snowboard, the central wheels work like the p-tex base that lets you do sliding. It easily let us pass from one edge to another with sliding or riding on the switch.
Stopping. When you want to stop on snowboard you push the edge. Do exactly the same to stop on Freebord.
I know, reading the article, it seems to be so easy for those ones riding on snowboard, but I ensure you that even if you ride on the board it will take you about 3 days to learn how to ride on Freebord, similarly to learn snowboarding.
When you conclude that you want to have fun with Freebord the basic matter is to find a good place. It lets you learn so quick. A smooth pavement is the best, without holes, crests or bumps. Wide streets without traffic, with a small slope enough to get some speed would be perfect. Remember to wear pads on your knees, elbows, wrists and of course a helmet.
Never ride on the center wheels, because then the board is not stable. You must always keep your body weight on the upper edge. When you learn how to ride you will feel what comes the real good fun in the city streets. Nowadays, in Poland more and more people are getting to know what Freebord is and what it consists of.
More information concerning Freebord you can read in www.freebords.pl. There you can also watch some videos with riders from the USA, which I hope encourage you, even only for trying it.
