Planning Begins!

Within the last week, we made several important steps in the development of the very first Altus Longboard! First, we decided to make the board a drop thru design. This is good for two main reasons. First, it makes pushing and commuting on the board much easier and energy efficient. Second, drop throughs are ideal to learn basic freeride and sliding on. Although many people shift to shorter wheelbased topmounts later, you can always just topmount your trucks on our board! (Or purchase one of our later topmount designs). To aid in the cruising and commuting aspect of the board, we decided to make the board a microdrop design (1/2") to make it even lower on the ground for pushing. I decided to use foot pockets to aid in the microdrop, as well as really lock your feet in during the slide. I advocated for this design during group testing because of my experiences with the foot pockets in my Landyachtz Switchblade 38", my first freeride board.

We've come to a somewhat informal decision that the first board will not have a graphic on the bottom, rather the natural wood finish and our logo. We collected money this week and we're ordering and buying all materials necessary, and we go to work on the press this Wednesday!