In 2001, a Canadian named Don Arney used his technical skill and his imagination aided, I’m guessing by some dangerous combination of beer, weed, boredom and fearlessness, to invent the HangBoard.
Basically the rider is suspended by trapeze from a small crane that is attached to a snowboard; the attachment point is between your legs. This looks like it could be a lot of fun, it also looks like it could be the last fun thing you’ll ever do before your body is cracked in two like a walnut.
Oh, yeah, they call the rider a “pilot;” I’m guessing that’s a hint at the odds of surviving a major crash.
HangBoarding is like hang gliding on snow. The "pilot" climbs aboard the HangBoard, which consists of an apparatus bolted to a standard snowboard in place of the bindings. The pilot hangs in a harness below a T-shaped bar, grips the handlebars in front and clamps her feet into rudders at the back. You're not vertical, you're horizontal, and most of the control comes from shifting your weight, with the rudders double as steering and brakes. Push one rudder you turn. Push both rudders, you stop. Or that's the theory .
(inventorspot)
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