Improvised snowboards!

Posted by Andrew D Meyer on February 5, 2014 in Non-musical activities!!! | Leave a comment

So today my buddy David and I made a little ski jump and improvised some snowboards. It almost always ended in crashing! Lot’s of engineering went into all of these activities. Here are some of the highlights.

I have a really awesome old school toboggan that is great for tobogganing, but even better for making a makeshift snowboard. Keep in mind that I have absolutely no idea how to snowboard. What could possibly go wrong…?

 

 

One of the more spectacular crashes…

 

 

Yes, I’m pretty much flying.

Then we got a little more confident and started staging some tricks.

 

 

Nailed it.

Then, a stroke of genius hit. Why not make this more of a leisure activity?

 

 

 

I found a truly terrible little snowboard/sled thing that is impossible to control…and perfect for this sort of activity!

 

 

Then I figured i’d try it on my skis, which I actually do know how to use…

 

Not a bad jump…

 

 

Not a good landing.

Somehow everything survived that one.

Then for the final trick we made big piles of snow to crash into.

 

 

And stick the landing…