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My first Tik Tok video has received over 50k views as of the writing of this blog post – much more than I expected!

Anyway, of course some people would ask, “well, where can you buy a snowskate”?

I figured you could probably buy them anywhere, but I probably kind of know where to go so anyway I’m mention what I found.

Firstly, there are two kinds of snowskates: single deck (usually just plastic with foam grip top) or bideck (a skateboard deck with foam top, attached to a ski bottom, usually also used with a leash on ski resort areas). They feel different and have different characteristics and I’ve ridden both.

The single decks are usually cheaper and lighter, but have less control (can’t carve) for riding anywhere. You could look up old Premier snowskate videos for examples, or current and older Ambition snowskate videos. (Note: I don’t necessarily endorse the content of any of these videos, just posting links as an example). They should be available a lot of places online, like Ebay or Amazon, or skate shops like Zumiez or so on (you could probably find these easily on a search engine).

The bideck kind may cost more, is heavier, but you can carve it, and to me it felt more like a “proper” snowskate. I don’t know what the rule is on taking them to ski resorts – at one time, a ski resort I went to allowed me to ride on any hill, but then I heard I was only supposed to be in “terrain” areas. The snowskates I got were $50-$100 over the last 20 years. To me, $200 or less sounds reasonable, and on an Ebay search there are some options on there within that price range. My first bideck was a Burton snowskate, which is listed on Ebay in that price range.

I was kind of a “flow” rider for a couple bideck snowskate companies which are out of business, I think – they sent me some boards to ride and create a few snowskate parts, since I posted some snowskate videos on Youtube (I since deleted the channel, which I could discuss in a future post: I tried to find old classical music that was free for me to use on a skateboarding video and kept getting copyright strikes and couldn’t get help when I contested them, so I was frustrated and quit Youtube for good).

I thought that snowskates were an exciting economic development as well because I think snowboards are easily double the cost or more, and snowskates are more portable, and so on – I definitely thought there were a lot of benefits to them.

So, if you get in to snowskating and my information has been useful to you or you save some money buying a snowskate rather than a snowboard, I’d be grateful for a donation!

In any event though, good luck and happy snowskating!

Update: A quick online search gave me Ambition and Icon Snowskates for companies that are currently active with single decks, and Squampton and Hovland Snowskates for bideck companies. One of Hovland’s riders seems to have become paralyzed snowskating last year and is accepting donations for him. Of these, I only recognize Ambition as having been around for over 10 years.