Monoboarding on pavement in LA

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MONOBORD, MONOBORDING ON PAVEMENT !
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Monobording on Pavement! RIDE AT YOUR ONW RISK!!!!! WARNING INJURIES HAPPEN, BE PREPARED! ALWAYS WEAR SAFETY GEAR!


Things You'll Need
1 monobord 2 hiking poles (bottom rubber) 2 Light Ski/Randonee boots 1 Helmet 1 Hockey Hip pads 2 Hockey Elbow pads 2 Hockey Knee pads 2 Snowboard Wrist guards 1 Hill


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Monobording cross-trainer
Monobord is the most effective monoboard cross-trainer you can buy. No other product simulates monoboarding so completely. Monobord carves and slides exactly like a monoboard so it teaches and reinforces the weighting and edging skills needed on the snow. You can hug a tight turn or drift a long slide; set an edge to drop speed . The learning curve varies rider by rider. While some are throwing slides within minutes, most require 1-3 hours to start to feel comfortable. Prior experience in other boardsports, particularly monoboarding, speeds the learning process. Monobord is designed for going downhill but it can be modified in minutes to ride slalom by either retracting the center wheels or removing them completely or change the truck tightness. It is recommend to get bindings. Bindings give you more control overall. These bindings do lock you into the monobord. " WARNING YOU CANNOT JUMP OFF AT ANYTIME SO YOU'LL NEED TO LEARN HOW TO STOP FIRST " The danger factor depends entirely on the caution used by the rider. You can catch an edge on a monobord because you are strapped to the monobord THE DANGER OF GETTING HURT IS REAL. Beginning Monoborders fall to the pavement often. Of course, we recommend that all riders wear a helmet and hip, knee, wrist and elbow " hockey" pads.


How to monobord
Learn how to monoboard on the streets all year! Steps: Find the PERFECT hill! Not too steep, not too flat. But make sure the hill is smooth! Learn to go down the hill by leaning on each side one after the other. This will let you turn as well as control your speed a little bit. Once you learn how to go down the hill move to a flat area to learn how to carve/skid. Practice carving/skidding on flat ground by leaning to push the back of the monobord into a slide, this will turn you just like monoboarding. Then try sliding to the other side. Go out to your hill and try carving/skidding now! Once you can carve/skid you can learn to stop, just turn your monobord one way more then just a carve/skid, it will skid you to a stop. Have fun and move to new hills, monobording can be fun but also VERY VERY DANGEROUS !


Tips
Remember to always wear safety gear! monobording is NOT skateboarding, even if you are the greatest skateboarder it is nothing like it. Monoboarders have a much better chance at learning faster! You have to realize that you are monobording on LAND not SNOW, it hurts a lot more! Watch others monobord, it helps a lot!

Warnings again
" VERY DANGEROUS" RIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!


Links
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