I totally understand your suspicion but I can assure I don’t have any connection with Hunterboards, other than our Portuguese nationality. My name is Pedro Frazão and I run company that sells products related to electric mobility, here’s the website www.usha.pt you can find my picture there. I sell eboards, efoils, ebikes, emotorbikes. I’ve assembled a couple of esk8 with parts manufactured by me but most was imported from China and I was inspired by boosted and evolve so basically, I was trying to copy them. I have also tested several esk8 to see which brands I would like to sell/represent here in Portugal, most of them were from other eskaters some I bought myself.
Yesterday after a long day I felt the need to share my first impressions about Hunterboards I could be doing other stuff late at night or sleeping but I decide to register and make a comment, probably it helps anyone with doubts, probably its worthless, it doesn’t matter. I had doubts about design and materials used and I was surprised. I bought it, I want this one cause its different from the rest and felt really good under my feet, hopefully I’ll get in some weeks and start ridding it frequently to know more about it.
All the best.
PS I tried to upload photos but it wont let me (“Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.”)
Basically as you know the brain takes up 95% of the head. In the medical diagrams below you will see that the brain of someone with a concave face is markedly smaller than that of a round headed normie.
I am not a newbie to eskate. But videos yea. I have a Lycaon TRX and a meepo v3. I’m sorry but i hate wearing a helmet. I come from the 80’s and I never wore a helmet on my ninja 900. Anyway this boards control is different. It rides higher than my other boards and the control feels a little different. I have been messing around with the adjustments cause i do not feel completely in control of it yet. It takes some getting use to. Once I get it dialed in then this board will rock!
So many people have said this before smashing their mellon in. There’s no way you would get me riding a brand new board from a brand new company without a helmet. I don’t even ride my own creations without one!
Came across a LinkedIn post from the Hunterboards founder. Not sure he’s claiming to have 6000 people on the waiting list, or if that’s a goal to achieve. Lofty goals, I guess! Maybe @pedrosand can butt in…
The waitlist is not the order list. People on the waitlist are those that, at the time of launch, wrote their email in the box that said Join the Waitlist. Over 6000 people did that. Roughly half of those came from The Verge. The rest came from TIME, Input, Uncrate, and overall social media. Basically, the Waitlist is a list of people we’re going to contact once we clear our order backlog and have stock.
The order list is naturally smaller than the waitlist and has customers from 20 countries (mostly US).
