Carveboard

The carveboard is a sliding sport on hard surface (road pavement, etc).
It is also the name of the board which allows the practice of this sport.

The board was invented by Californian surfers to work their movements the days of sea punt. It results from it a board which, even if it divides with the Skateboard playing field and inspiration, proposes quite different feelings. And even if from its anatomy (a board, 2 trucks, 4 wheels) the carveboard resembles in any points his/her cousins boards casters, the technique of slips and the gotten feelings are finally much closer to those of surfing.

The practice points out that, more known, of the Longskate: descent on roads (boardercross, mountain and slalom in particular). However it privileges the work of the turn for which it allows all imaginations as regards variations of curve. Certain models being equipped with tires a use on more broken surface (bad bitumen, paving stones, ground, etc) is also possible.

Anatomy

The board in itself with the characteristic to be connected to the trucks by small hinges which make it possible more or less to incline the board compared to the horizontal one. One inclines oneself thus until approximately 45°; that is to say much more than by using the flexibility of the traditional trucks of a skateboard. This allows an attack much more aggressive turns in descent, by limiting a maximum lose speed to each curve (carving).

The possibility of the instantaneous change of cross-section ( Rail To Rail ), makes it possible to gain speed by movements of inflection-extension which one finds in surfing " shortboard". It is the effect of " relance" who allows feelings on the dish (" flat"), or soft, and possible inclined at low speed.

Emulation of other sliding sports

Like the skateboard at its beginnings, the carveboard seeks to return feelings suitable for the Surf. Those are found in addition in some practical of Snowboard (what without is surprised considering the history of this last). This is why today one sells carveboards by being windy their qualities of emulations of surfing and the snowboard. But let us not mislead there we, if these qualities are real, they are not inevitably sensitive for all because they correspond only to the practices carving of the alpine snowboards or freerides. Moreover, contrary to the freeboard and the T-board, which were indeed developed specifically to emulate the snowboard, the carveboard at summer developed by surfers for surfers. To cross short to the sterile debates which do not fail to occur around these new offers of slip competing, let us recall simply that essentially the emulation of surfing or the snowboard on hard surface is never but imperfect. One can thus suppose that with time, following the example skateboard, these sports will be able to exceed their origins and to impose itself like distinct sports and either more or less successful emulations.

Popularity

Although this relatively innovative idea is rather recent, the popularity and the practice of the carveboard remain limited compared to the Longskate. This perhaps explained by the fact that this last was created at the same time as the Skateboard (in the years 1970), and than it had time to develop. Also, the price of innovating boards such as the carveboard remains high in particular because of the lack of competition (only a number very limited manufacturers has the patent).

External bond

Carveboard official distributer in France
Forum carveboard.fr… Surfez bitumen! Point gathering of the French-speaking carveboardeurs.

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