Look out for this amazing entry into the heated surfing simulation battle from On Shore Boards. No seriously. I mean look out for it, because if one of these things catches you in the ankle, your walking days are over. These guys are so into simulating surfing, they made a guy ride a board into a water puddle. Now you and I both know that a company with such amazing technology is going to stick around for the long haul. They obviously have a lot of business savvy since somehow managed to squeeze three patents out of combined pre-existing technologies. Just in case they aren’t around in a year or two, I’ve got some highlights for the archives.
On Shore Boards
The web site has a lot of photos and a few videos. They even have a sparsely populated user forum. Everyone is probably too busy shredding to type in front of the computer. Surprisingly, the company isn’t based out of China, but Vancouver BC instead.
This is the Landshark, and what do you know? It actually looks like a shark from this angle.
Another view.
Actually I may be wrong on this. It’s possible they are trying to emulate snowshoes and not surfing. Check out the concave on that beast!
Here’s the inventor, Brad, er…. Bradfield. Yes, Brad Bradfield is his name. That may seem like it’s made up, but I actually knew a guy whose father was named Stanley S. Stanley, and I’ll bet you can guess what his middle named is.
Xanadu. Xanadoooooooo-ooooooooh!
It’s hard to believe these are two pictures of the same device.
Here is the Wahine team. You might think it would be for girl riders, but from the looks of it, they just expect their girls to stand around in bikinis and make out with the boards instead of ride them.
Here’s the current lineup, and founder Brad shredding the Great Wall of China. Danny Way? Pfffffbbbbt!
On Shore Boards in action. Nobody wants to show their face.
Click to enlarge the product spec sheet.
29 comments
Kevin
I’m from vancouver… never heard of this “legend” brad kookfag… but I do remember someone giving me a flyer for that thing at bonsor a while back. carried it around with me for a month to give people a laugh.
LonelyRoad
where the fack do they find these people for these ads?
its not like deodorant where you just put it on.
you have to find out about this bullshit, get it, then ride it and get good at it…then get accepted to be apart of the ad.
retarded.
PIG CITY
I just don’t fucking get it!
damienhialation
5 bucks to whoever zoo bombs on one of these peices of shit.
p.s. you also get a kick in the balls for owning one of these peices of shit.
bailgun
feel free. just know that you have to get rid of your skateboard to do it.
Bjjpdx
i would like to try one they look fun as hell.
ssk
…the boogie boarders of skateboarding?
Kilwag
I think the OSB people would argue that a skateboard doesn’t have to have two conventional trucks either. If we can accept wider boards, longboards, slalom, randall trucks, then can’t we accept a skateboard with rollerblade wheels on front?
No, but you get what I’m saying. The OSB riders are just lower on the food chain.
Glenn
I imagine they are pretty chalenging to ride, no steering at the front, a nice steep randal at the back, kind of the opposite of every other ‘surf emulation’ board out there.
All of these things are retarded, I overtook a couple of guys wiggling those twisty things with two castors, they were showing off their abilty to keep going without pushing, I pumped past them on my Slalom board at twice the speed.
These things (and the morons promoting them) wouldn’t need to exist if more people realised that a ‘skateboard’ didn’t have to be a twin tipped, tight trucked, hard wheeled descendent of a ’70s freestyle setup…
billy the kid
brad bradfield is a really cool guy too. he’s kinda like a local legend in the vancouver skate community and he’s british!
billy the kid
those things are crazy! kinda tricky to ride too. they are starting to get popular in the vancouver area. i’ve met a few o.s.b. riders at downhill races in canada. as weird as those boards are, i give those guys credit for monster truckin’ it. they’ve bombed some hills on those boards that most people on this messageboard wouldn’t be able to do. GO O.S.B.!!!!
colin walsh rules
i just ate fajitas……mmmmmmmmm
seamus
DUDE, DUDE I HOPE BAM AND SHECKS GET THE HOOK UP WITH THESE DOPE HOME DOGS! I WANT GRAFFIX!
skatebroke
if a kook falls in the street, will there be a longboarder to laugh at him?
max
gosh, leave the china-wall to danny way. and stop ripping of your lil
spk
look @ his go hunt duck pants in a shalow swamp. is this real ? chinall wall ? lol he made the first china wall ride with that thing !
spk
i think if i go to the skate park here with one of those things, people will beat me up til death. is this real ?
SBerg
I must have one. Just look, it improves your scum line carving!
conahan
Now why didn’t I ever think of mounting two rollerblade wheels side by side on each axle.
cskate
I’m going to design a board specifically made to spin 360’s on top of fire hydrants. All the “extreme” kids are doing it these days.
egbert
Make a surfboard that recreates skating…and color me interested. Or better yet, a beer that recreates getting stoned. My wife thinks it’s a bad idea to smoke weed.
Hateboard
no please.
not ever.
thats some silly ass innovation right there.
Kilwag
If only the shore boards rotated in the middle.
ssk
Hey, I bet these guys were using that CISCO softwear!!!
ssk
How about a contest to see who can come up with the wackiest most retarded design and get all of this “ground breaking innovation” over with.
This way when the next “revolutionary” “strap surf wiggle snangle stick” comes out they will at least have to pay royalties.
Jakeandannoy
Gloveslap! Now it’s duel or die. Brad/inventor looks like an old tweeker that beat up a young tweeker and took his clothes…and/or shoreboard. You dont need to take that thing to pawn shop to find out how worthless it is,unless getting laughed out of some place is worth something to you.
conahan
Must have taken them a while to make that big puddle of semen.
Kilwag
Never! I take offense! If I had a white glove I’d have to take it off, slap you in the face with it and challenge you to a duel. You sir, are a cad and a scoundrel!
cskate
It’s almost like your being sarcastic or something.