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Of first and foremost importance, SUS® / Stand Up Spike® is a TRANSPORT SPORT. The skills acquired during the recreation and racing of SUS® are directly transferable skills that may be used in daily commuting world wide. SUS® along with Bicycling, Stand Up Paddle, Switch Kick Longboarding, Foot Biking, Nor
dic Skiing, Roller Skiing, Inline Skating and SpikeBoarding™ are all fundamental to a healthy society. TRANSPORT SPORT heals the planet. Stand Up SpikeBoarding is influenced in two parts by existing sports Stand Up Paddle and Longboarding. Yet a third sport, Nordic Skiing, provided SUS® with the tool to make it all possible to transfer 100% effective upper body strength into the pavement. The carbide Spike we find at the end of a SkateBoard Spike® patented as well as all Roller Nordic Ski Poles. Melded into one with a meditative end towards motoring forward, on flats, uphills, downhills and with as much efficiency as the full body can generate through the core and arms. SUS® is both high performance or casual tempo commuting. Terrain selection will dictate the workout or commuting speed. Effective stroke is the ultimate goal. Same as all endurance sports. One hundred elite swimmers will all be striving for the same "best", most efficient, stroke, wasting as little energy as possible. Stand Up Paddlers and Nordic Skiers are the same. SUS® is no different. "How slow can you go?", is the order of the day. You can only go fast when you can go slow, with perfect form. Words to live by. Like any finely tuned and strengthened stroke the beginner will have success in ex*****on slowly and their mastery becomes stable within 6 months, proficient in 1 to 3 years, expert in 4 to 6 years and Olympic class in 10 years time. The body adapts to the load, slowly and with dedicated practice. SUP experts will all tell you. Ten thousand hours makes a perfect stand up paddlers. SUS® uses two specialized items of sporting gear. They are, a longboard skateboard specially designed for low center of gravity and stability a Stand Up SpikeBoard and a SkateBoard Spike. It has safety fenders to keep your feet off the wheels and your spike out of the wheel wells. Fenders also keep the elements under the board and off your legs. These Stand Up SpikeBoards are drop deck boards, 3 inches of drop, with long stand over lengths, 39 ". They have 85 mm wheels, 180 mm trucks. We see a time in the not to distant future when reliable hand brakes will be standard on all Stand Up SpikeBoards for use at any speed, down any hill reliably. The SkateBoard Spike is a device very similar to a Nordic Ski pole with one glaring difference. It can be used to spike with one hand alone with high performance while standing on the deck as well as with two hands simultaneously to Stand Up Spike®. The Shaft is oversized in comparison to a ski pole. It is fabricated to weigh as little as possible and made of carbon fiber. It weights 19 oz. It has a traditional carbide steel spike footing, same as Nordic Roller Ski Poles have had for the last 30 years. The handle is uniquely designed made to be spiked down upon by the palm, there by allowing for one hand to grasp the shaft while the other spikes down, one hand over the next (STACKED HANDS) and completes the Stand Up Spike® stroke. The handle's core center is solid, ultra light, resin. The exterior is an optimized foam with the perfect stiffness and flex. The footing is easily replaced using boiling water and a hot glue gun for reapplication. Spike tip life span varies 500-1000 hours. The spike requires a 90 second sharpening with a Diamond® Hand File before each serious work out or every few days of local commuting. SUSOIX™ is the innovator and global leader of SUS® products and education. Become a SUSOIX™ Certified Professional SUS® Instructor.
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