Loaded

Beginning in early 1995, trying to mimic the rush of snowboarding on pavement, the company's shortboards got less and less playtime while the company experimented with more stable wheelbases, any funky truck the company could get the company's hands on, and pretty much any material the company could put trucks on. All sorts of shapes of Baltic birc... h plies, solid wood, modified shortboards, and various other objects became projectiles to careen down local hills with. Looking for a lively and precisely tuned and responsive ride, old snowboards soon found themselves reincarnated with trucks and wheels attachedawaiting more brutal methods of destruction. The company played (and continue to play) with almost every board and truck available and took courses in composite and material technologies, continuing on with the company's quest to build a lively board capable of skating bigger hills with enhanced control. September 2000 through June 2002 were dedicated to developing these boards. It was challenging. The company enlisted and ended up frustrating many of the greatest minds in skateboarding and snowboarding. Determining and testing the materials was a full-time job. Trying to get the wood and fiberglass to conform to compound contours was an affront to physics and the company got sick of hearing that it couldnt be done with curvatures as pronounced as the company wanted. But done it was and the first ride made it clear that it should be done.Read More