Snowboard is for all seasons

Jan 6
14:53

2009

sam marsigliese

sam marsigliese

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A new device called 360 allows snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding all year round and on any kind of slopes and grounds : concrete, grass, mud. The italian designer, Francesco Sommacal, shows the device on action on his design website.

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Snowboarding all year round is the undisputed dream of every rider around the globe; this dream is now close to coming true,Snowboard is for all seasons Articles since a new device called 360 has been presented to public by its inventor, italian designer Francesco Sommacal.This invention granted Francesco, among other two thousand designers from all around the world,  the prestigious Red Dot Luminary Award in Singapore. 360 allows riders to face with its light structure based on  steel, aluminum and other composite materials, basically almost any kind of slopes and grounds : concrete, grass, mud. It will be up to worldwide board addicts to judge wether this new device will be most similar to snowboard, skateboard, surf ; regardless of this boundaries, 360 uncovers a new range of riding options which many users will love as a mean of training their skills all year round, if not a new discipline by itself!With 360 riders place their feet into the inner part of both wheels, which puts them in a natural position to shred roads, grass or hills, even the steepest ones, keeping safe without worrying about losing control through a speed control mechanism.Some videos of 360 in action can be found on Sommacal’s Zerofra Design site, zerofra.com; it's worth mentioning that the inventor' skills are not remarkable and a sponsored team, able to bring 360 at its limits, would not be a bad idea in case the product was marketed.

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