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...deal This oversize skateboard has a handle for learning to balance, which can then be locked down for mastering the finer techniques...
...deal A pint-size version of the off-road mountain scooters found in ski resorts, it comes in metallic blue or burgundy chrome, has front and rear breaks and an oversize skateboard platform...
Next up was the $200 Freebord (available at freebord.com) which looks like a regular skateboard from the top but has an extra set of wheels on the bottom that are supposed to let you "slide" across the pavement the way snowboarders slide across snow. Besides rolling forward and backward, you can slide side to side and spin around in circles. If you're really good, you might even master the half-pipe like gold medalist Russ Powers...
...Olympic champ, however. I figured out how to "carve" the board to make regular skateboard-style turns, but every time I started sliding, I promptly fell on my behind. It was fun for the two or three seconds before I came crashing down. "There's a pretty steep learning curve," admits Steen Strand, 35, the investment banker turned entrepreneur who invented Freebord. Will I ever catch big air on that curve? Probably not. But that's O.K. I may break my neck trying, but at least I won't die of boredom--or Chunky Monkey ice cream...
...These snowboard and freestyle events, added over the last several Olympics are part of a movement called freeskiing that is rapidly changing the sport in the U.S. And they are right where America's skateboard-surfboard-snowboard generation lives. In the mens? moguls, resident renegade Jonny Moseley had a sometimes raucous crowd salivating in anticipation of his signature "Dinner Roll" jump, and he did not disappoint. Moseley stole the show in each of his two runs - but left without a medal. Ah, the irony. The outrageous Moseley is too rad for freestyle. His Dinner Roll is a 720 degree...