On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:10:40 AM UTC-6, nosnowski wrote:
Hi everyone,
I live in Australia where as you may know we have rather short snow
seasons lasting at best three months and pretty poor quality snow. For
the past few years I have been thinking how we could enjoy something
that at least remotely resembles skiing and finally came up with a
relatively simple design of skiing device that can carve on dry surface.
I had earlier tried rolling tread based ski but it's quite demanding in
terms of turning and hard with speed control. I guess in my younger
years it would have been fun but I am a bit less crazy these days.

I spent quite a bit on patent applications and building prototypes but I
am not sure if I should risk more funding to make a few more pairs
(short series manufacturing is quite expensive). This brief video shows
how it works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiSip6J03Q

I would appreciate your feedback which would help me to make my mind
whether I should try taking it further or just stop here and just enjoy
riding my prototype in preparation for our ski season.




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nosnowski

I had friends that developed the grass skiing stuff in the 70's/80's (?). It was something they messed around with but didn't get rich off of. They were basically inline skates before they were called inline skates. Now my buddy that developed those Easy Up shades? He made some cash!