Check this out! Impressive! I can't imagine the balance that it would take to ride together!



Wild Files

Jill Margetts Reporting

This year has been a great ski and snowboard season, but do you ever get bored or lonely riding down the mountain?

This week in Wild Files Local News 8's Jill Margetts has the solution for you. She introduces us to the inventor of the two-man snowboard. That's right two people on one board. The creator calls it the tandem board.

Butch Brady and Eric Sweet love riding their one of a kind, two man snowboard.

"It's a lot of fun, it's a unique experience joining two snowboards together," said Sweet.

"I know when I was skiing years back I got bored with skiing, so I tried snowboarding. Now I'm doing tandem boarding so it's something new," said Brady.

Brady is the inventor of the unique board called the tandem board. The only kind like it in the world, that they know of.

To make the tandem board they cut the tips of snowboards off and then bolt two snowboards together.

Because two people have to work together to control the board, Brady and Sweet like to compare it to a marriage.

"Well you have to give up half of the control. The person in the front is the front foot. The person in the back is the back foot, so as you're riding a snowboard you flex your feet. The person in the front has to go a little before the person in the back, so it's a marriage," said Brady.

What do people on the ski hill think about this so called marriage?

"Some people are just stopped in their tracks, they're uncomfortable with it initially," said Sweet.

"Some people tell us to go home, they consider us tourists but a lot of the people around here they're real open minded so Jackson Hole is a good place to start this out," said Brady.

The pair has already turned heads by setting records riding their tandem board. They are now in the Guinness Book of World Records for most consecutive turns on a two-man snowboard.

Now Sweet and Brady are taking the tandem board to a whole new level. They've created a three-man board.

Find out next week on Wild Files if they break another record and how they want to use the three-man board to help people with disabilities.

Brady and Sweet are in the process of patenting the tandem board.

If you're interested in this unique board you can visit their website at www.tandemboard.com.

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Wow, this looks SERIOUSLY, INTENSELY hard!!! Talk about the need for TEAMWORK!!

Here's a picture of one in Austria



And One in action at Hidden Valley:

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Interesting----those are alpine bindings/boots/stance. Will have to be on the lookout for videos posted of this. DS will get a huge charge. OTOH, he may well have seen this in action???

Ah, MSL......you know me!
You ask....you get!

Presenting:
The Video....although this one highlights the 3 man board as well as the tandem! WOW! Great stuff for learning how to board and also, as he mentions, promising for adaptive boarding! Wonderful!

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GREAT vid!
Okay, I easily foresee someone I know trying this!!

Oh, the falls, though - especially those forward/toe edge falls.....
Memories of my 2 days on a board.
How many times can a 40-something fall forward onto wrists before one sprains?
Sadly, I could not endure the learning curve, which is WAY different than skiing's learning curve.

Love this triple video!!