(Posted 2/19/2006)
(By Josh Rabinowitz for SkateboardDirectory.com)
As part of what Element * Skateboard calls their "constant progression in skateboard design", the company has announced their new "Featherlight Helium Skateboard Construction" decks, which feature "patented air-frame chambers built inside".
Each of the five air-frameŽ chambers within the boards is hollowed, which means less wood is used, resulting in what Element Skateboards says is the lightest skateboard deck they have ever released.
The company claims that despite the fact that the weight of the deck is significantly reduced over traditional boards, the engineering of the "air-frame" actually increases the strength of the board by "distributing the normal stress from skateboarding equally throughout the board".
Each Featherlite Helium deck is "manufactured with traditional U.S. Hard Rock Maple *" and is guaranteed to "perform and respond just like Element Featherlight boards". It does not appear that the boards actually contain Helium, in case some of you were wondering.
According to the company, "the Element seed was planted" in 1992 *, and one of their goals is to do business "in the most honest and ethical way possible."
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