Thread: anyone have a Ripstik or tried one?

Originally Posted by chee16

for some reason they are kinda hard to find in Canada. toys r us has them but no one else around here. i will have one eventually for sure. ebay has some leads but if necessary i will make the trip to the toy store

I think we paid $100? down here about a year ago. Big 5 sporting goods store

Might I say, fun or not, anyone over 13 riding them looks plain ridiculous. All you do is shake your ass and hope for the best

Yeaa I got a Ripstick and my son has a Bladeboard...
It fun riding em
But note that the Bladboard is much easier to ride.

You don't shake you ass to gain speed, what you do is twisting your hips... But first step is wriggling your foot than l8er on you learn the twist..

Have fun

A Ripstick? I thought a Ripstick was Scooby-Doo's way of saying Lipstick!

Scooby-Doo: "Hey Raggy! Rare ryou rwearing Ripstick?"
Shaggy - "Zoiks, Scooby! No! It's a chapstick!"
Scooby-Doo: "Roh! Ra Rapstick!... rhi-hi-hi-hi!"

No seriously... it looks like fun! I've heard about them but never knew the name.
My brother (he skates a bit and surfs a bit) bought a Freeboard. It's something like de Snowboard for the asphalt...

Fun or not it looks like a sure-fire way to bust your ass and have to think of an excuss besides the truth when you call in sick for the week

Originally Posted by fpessanha

No seriously... it looks like fun! I've heard about them but never knew the name.
My brother (he skates a bit and surfs a bit) bought a Freeboard. It's something like de Snowboard for the asphalt...

that free board is pretty neat. i have never snowboarded though and don't have very many hills around, it still looks cool. i would totally wear a helmet though. i went to the webpage and there are tons of videos and no one is wearing ahelmet, crazy!

i can't find the bladeboard anywhere. weird. people talk about it on some forums i found through google but the webpage isn't there. oh well.

Originally Posted by chee16

that free board is pretty neat. i have never snowboarded though and don't have very many hills around, it still looks cool. i would totally wear a helmet though. i went to the webpage and there are tons of videos and no one is wearing ahelmet, crazy!

i can't find the bladeboard anywhere. weird. people talk about it on some forums i found through google but the webpage isn't there. oh well.

My brother is now on the begining of the learning curve. He skates a bit, mostly downhill, so the freeboard was the next step... he likes snowboarding and it suits him fine. But its funny that you mention the helmet. The other day my brother (2 years older than I, by the way...) said he bought an helmet. "I'm too old to be careless! I don't mind loosing the cool factor... as long as I'm safe" and might I add that, to me, anything that has wheels, no seats or stearing wheel or handle bars or whatever is DANGEROUS!

Perhaps more important than a helmet is a set of wrist gaurds!

Seriously. You take a dive off of any type of torture device affixed to your feet (skateboard, rollerblades, stilleto heels...) and the first thing you're going to do is stick your hands out to break your fall.


Are you in Chatham next to Brownsburg?