recycle your old junker board?

scooper · Joined: 28 May 1987 Posts: 537 Location: Massachusettes

I saw an article in Boards Mag about a dry land trainer to learn freestyle moves. It's made by cutting up an old board so it can pivot on it's nose and side. Now I'm kicking myself for throwing out several old boards over the years. If anyone has an old shortboard that they were planning on getting rid of but can"t bear to just throw out, I'll take it off their hands and give it a new life.

OliverTwist · Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 211

scooper,

A guy at work has an old Greg Lohr styro board that he offered to me. It's an 80's slalom board and I didn't want it. If he still has it I'll get it for you. I'll see him tomorrow.

Oliver

scooper · Joined: 28 May 1987 Posts: 537 Location: Massachusettes

Hi Oliver,

Thanks! I'm really looking forward to trying this simulator idea out.

Steve

gaastrageezer · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 47

Oliver, Greg made some nice boards, he was a glass expert. There's a land trainer pictured in the Dasher Gybe video. It isn't hard to find junk boards. Every yatch club and wind shop seems to have a pile of them in the back.

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 939

Also, just about any board will do for land simulation, unless you're hoping to have the board be able to pivot and turn, which I've never seen a simulator that really accomplished this. Sail handling and footwork are the things simulators shine at.

If you do succeed in creating a great land simulator, put some photos online for people to see...that would be great!

OliverTwist · Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 211

I saw the guy at work today. He already dropped the board off at the swap shack at the dump.

scooper · Joined: 28 May 1987 Posts: 537 Location: Massachusettes

Thanks for trying! I'm sure I'll dig one up somewhere.

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 939

The Egyptian simulator is a new one on me. Interesting...

A specific simulator idea for working on jibes is to put a broomstick or half-buried mast on the ground, and the board on top of that with the stick/mast under the board's centerline. This is an unforgiving way to test your footwork...keeping the inside carving rail down the entire time is not so easy!

Here is an alternative idea for abandoned windsurfing gear: furniture made from it:
http://peconicpuffin.typepad.com/the_peconic_puffin/2007/03/the_art_of_recy.html

gaastrageezer · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 47

Boards don't seem to last long at swap shacks. I don't know if this is due to the fact that the workers there don't want to see them take up space and chuck them quickly or that people that don't know the sport grab them. However, it seems rare to see the shack in my town without a handful of hangers-on who'll grab anything, especially anything that floats. An old board, no matter how ugly and obsolete, can serve as an introduction to either windsurfing or surfing. Putting it in nothing more than a pool, climbing on top and standing on it can not only be fun for some, but gives anyone new to watersports confidence. I recently bought a used kite surfing board for myself, but I soon realized it will serve well to introduce the toddlers in my family to surf or wake boarding.