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It's been a while since I posted anything about the Wave Board, but I have actually been riding it still, weather permitting. I haven't made any real snowboard training breakthroughs though.
I finally wore the wheels down to the point where they were so out-of-round that riding at any considerable speed became pretty uncomfortable. I never did wear them down to the hub like the first set, although in the picture you can see the black hubs starting to show through the urethane on one of the wheels.
The desktop version of Waveboard for Mac, although in a very early stage, is already available for download. Official info on the app is very scarce, but some users have tried it out and called it “simple and practical”.
The same developer is currently waiting for Apple’s approval of a Google Wave (
) client for the iPhone under the same name. You can already run Wave on your iPhone by simply accessing wave.google.com/wave from your iPhone, with mixed results (works a bit better on Nokia N900), but we expect the app to make the entire experience far smoother.
All you Mac users out there, please let us know how you like the application in the comments.
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another awesome episode hits you with .. .The last few sessions out on the Wave Board have borne little fruit for me in terms of really getting my regular (forward) riding wired again. I think I've figured out what the deal is but it still seems forced. Somehow my weight is more naturally distributed when riding switch. Artificially putting my weight forward doesn't seem to help me hang the turns without skidding.
I've also been experimenting with putting my feet way out at the ends of the board and trying to spin 360 degrees. I've been able to get around but I'm killing the back wheel in the process I think. The picture shows pretty heavy wear, and I think that a lot of it has happened in the last two days or so.
Another few Wave Boarding sessions down, and I have been experimenting a little bit with my stance. That is, exactly how I am positioning my feet on the board. Unlike on a snowboard, you can pretty much put your feet wherever you want to as you are riding on the Wave Board. This allows you to play around with your stance without even stopping. On a snowboard you would have to dig your tools out and fiddle with the bindings. Also when you switch riding directions, you can't modify your stance at all. You have to pick a compromise between the positions.
Angled stances where your feet point toward the front of the board are tricky on the Wave. The torsional aspects of the board become very pronounced, and the board feels less stable. From exeperience however, I know that this is something that you tend to get used to on the Wave, so I'm not going to rule it out for now.
Up until this point I had been riding using a straight across stance. Or a little bit 'duck footed' where each foot points out to the ends of the board a little bit. I have found that turning the front foot slightly inwards can help to dig into turns. Turning the feet both toward the front of the board tends to make the board a little bit hard to control, but encourages the use of the body to initiate turns. The back foot is less likely to over pressure the board, and the board is less likely to slide out in the turn.
I'm still experimenting with this, but I wanted to write a little bit about it now just to try to understand the effect of stance better.