http://www.baseboard.com.au/movies.php

Our local shop www.candyandkites.com is getting a demo of this board. Looks pretty cool!

14 pounds - not too heavy...

Lets us know what it's like!

What's on the edges to prevent all the scrapes?

Ya know we had a discussion on these on the wingsurfer forum.

Looks like it would be fun, though I dont know how long you could continually do the water-land crossover before you eat your bearings out.

Although the innovation of the idea definitely gets props from me. Sure it's not the first of it's kind

Wonder what it would ride like without the middle wheel on?

The price does seem to be a bit out of line but I will report when I get to see one first hand. If you made one yourself and once you had the wheels you could break quite a few 30 dollar boards before you get to $700

$700(AUD)/$530(USD) IS a lot of money to spend on a wood deck. However you neglected to mention that for that amount of money you could also buy a Dirtsurfer. If your intersted in it for purely landboarding maybe you should look at a dirtsurfer. It may not have the water-crossover ability (though I think it will be limited to a few rides before you have to replace bearings), but it does come with a thermofibre composite deck, larger wheels, and in my opinion looks cooler too. $450 for the Freestyle brand new and $550 for the Pro Downhill (I got mine off ebay for $300) and the real shocker is you can get them shipped from the U.S. new! Also there is talk of the re-entering of the General Purpose (GP) board. 1 piece solid frame made from crome-moly steel at around $300 new

If you're interested in riding one I will be at NABX with a spare board:wink2:

well does anyone else have experience with these boards. They do look interesting and I do have a couple more questions.

I hate to say it, we've had a number of local riders looking for some sort of amphibious board, one of our local spots can involve a 2 mile trek out to the water's edge on sand flats at low tide so they usually don't get a chance to use it. They've spent a lot more than $700 for a lot less, it just has to work.

I think the potential for the baseboard is actually a lot. Considering if you can do some serious water riding along with land riding that would be really cool.

I think it's a pretty sweet deal to be honest. You figure $250 for a relatively cheap kiteboard, then another $250 or so for a landboard, when you can have one board and do both..less to haul to the beach too. After I saw this thread I started thinking.. I'm not sure what shipping stuff from overseas is like from Aus. (if you need to go through all that customs stuff and how bad the shipping cost would be overall).. so I did a little bit of piecing stuff together and it really wouldn't be that difficult to build something very similar.

It's just a really interesting concept, people have tried to build something like this for years, none of them have worked well enough to catch on.

If something like this works out well, some vid footage of it on land and water would be nice, then the rich fellows will be buying it, after a while production will go up, cost will go down and then the 14yr olds will be able to afford one and show us all what the board's capable of.

The first couple of anything are usually not that cheap, it's to be expected with being the first to have something cool. Brings us back to the main question though, how well is this bad boy gonna cut it. Should really be tested by a landboarder and a surfer.