Okay, it’s very hard to get your ass wet with this sport, but I’m sure you can work up an impressive rash. Sandboarding is…wait a minute, it’s totally obvious, why should I have to explain it? Suffice it to say, it makes boarding an all-year sport, and according to Outside it’s been around since the dune-happy ancient Egyptians. You can read all about sandboarding’s history here, and then move on to Sandboard Magazine’s website for everything else you need, including some small but watchable vids. We’ve got snowboarding. We’ve got sandboarding. Grassboarding can’t be too far off…
[Update: I was kidding about “grassboarding,” but lo and behold I just received the following e-mail: “You think grassboarding isn’t too far off eh? I’ve done it. When I was living in Mississippi, I was dying to learn how to snowboard. Not much snow in Mississippi, so I made grassboards out of plywood, shaped just like a snowboard. There’s also a shortage of hills in Mississippi, so we eventually moved on to towing them behind cars in fields. It was a blast. Only bad thing is you can’t steer… we had no bindings of any sort…
WILL”
Towing behind cars? Hello, Darwin Awards…]
“We’re definitely going to have to design some special underwear for this sport…”
“Hang in there, Dude. The good news is I don’t have to dig you out. The bad news is there’s a scorpion on your ass…”
“Damn, I knew sandboarding in Irag would be a mistake. I think “Dunes” just hit a mine…”
The Earthist Chronicles 