summit 85cm skiboard review

[awsian]

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you have used these skiboards? Please post a review, they are found in skiboards.com.

[Courtney]

we will be testing a pair for www.skiboardreview.com so soon enough we will let you know how they are. i hope you can wait a little because we are just launching the site.

[Vitulla]

yup courtney couldnt of said it better. just stay tuned to our site and you'll see it up soon after we receive them.

[Courtney]

the site should be done by friday so the review should be up in 2-3 weeks

[awsian]

summits

aight, ill definately look into it, thanks guys.

[J.D.]

Heh I almost got a pair of those off ebay for 12$, they were listed as "Mini Skis" so I guess nobody found them. Got outbid at the last second though, someone got em for 32$. I didn't need boards, but that would've been a hell of a deal...

[Vitulla]

yea that would of been a good deal. 32$ is still great. It would of served in handy when you just wanted to screw around.

[Jdawg]

I have those boards here's my review

I learned inline skating two years ago, and have been skating for speed and fitness for the past two seasons. I love the feeling of gliding on your own two feet. It was skating that sparked my interest in snowsports. Skiing and snowboarding looked like alot of fun but i was looking for something that would feel like my inline skates. I rented some skiboards and immediately fell inlove from the first day! two days later i bought my first skiboards and was recommended the Summits.
For all of you inline skaters out there Summits are a must have! these are very responsive boards that are easy to manuever and pretty stable in most conditions. You can pretty much "skate" in these boards.
SPEED - learning curve in these boards are so fast that my fourth run on these , i was able to keep up with a couple of my seasoned snowboarding buddies at Mountain Creek NJ. Due to the wider surface area of these boards, it could produce some speed! At times i was passing my snowboarding buddies and even some skiiers while maintaining stability, and im a beginner!
MANUEVERABILITY - These boards are very manueverable! you can even skate on the flats saving your legs for the actually skiboarding. the side cuts makes turning easy and responsive. I was never a trickster due to my 5"11 200 pound frame, but in the first day i was using these i was able to do a 360 spin that i didnt have the confidence to do with other skiboards. Stopping was a piece of cake with these, since you can turn the boards over very quickly.
CARVING - the conditions at Mountain Creek were Groomed granular and icy. These conditions were not the best to be carving in. But these boards are still able to hold my weight and carve intermediate and advance hills.
OVERALL - ON My first day on the Summits Skiboards and my third day skiboarding overall was a blast. Most of the day i was doing Blue and black diamond runs and was doing well considering my limited experience on the slopes. To sum it up, these are fast, manueverable, good carving, and a well balance skiboards that are alot of fun to use.

Jdawg

[865rolla]

thats awesome, but i gotta comment on a couple things..

one, dont let your weight limit you on tricks man. if you want to do them, do them, don't do them because you're big. my friend Zack Zeigler (local here) is around 6'2 and weighs 250 pounds. hes been skating rails for about 4 years, and he's one of the best around here. he makiod our lonng 40 stair rail here, mizou to switch true topsoyale to switch zero pornstar a a 25 foot handicap rail like it were nothin.

your mind is your control... it can both excel and limit your body.

secondly, im an aggro rollerblader, and i went for the small design too b/c it'd be lightest & most manueverable. i got 75 snowjams tho. definitely manueverable like crazy, easily pass snowboarders when you want em to, but i find it quite a bit harder to pass skiiers. i wouldn't doubt the summits are good, they would be one of my next choices due to manuverability.

[Courtney]

We will be getting a pair of summits to try out very soon, they'll be shipped to me on the 15th so a review should be up by march 24th on skiboardreview.com.