Douchebags

by Ando, February 13, 2012

Douchebags rethink the ski bag

It’s really hard to find a boardbag that is the right length for your skis/snowboards/surfboards/ironing boards (if that’s your thing). And boardbags are really cumbersome to store. And they’re hard to walk long distances with. And then you get new skis/boards, and the bag is totally the wrong size again.

So starting with a ski bag, a pro skier (more on him later), a Norwegian uni, and 150 of their closest mates have got together and rethought the ski bag. They came up with a funny name, added a bunch of clever features, and have caught our attention big time.

The bag can roll to different lengths, including into a little ball for storage.

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It has a shoulder strap for walking long distances.

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It caters to a powder trip, a race trip, or reliving the glory days on those old race-stock 197 slalom planks with about 1mm of sidecut.

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There’s a fancy rib cage for protection, as well as a fancy internal rigidity frame bit. Basically, they’ve ticked the basics for a 3.2kg boardbag.

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Now we just want to see the same approach taken to surfboard bags; imagine having the one wheeled coffin for a Superbank cyclone swell raid or a Hawaiian rhino shooter trip!

Good stuff Douchebags. You’ve done well. Check out YouTube for a video of it in action, and thanks heaps to @meltedpop for pointing these guys out.

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But wait, there’s more!

Yeah, we couldn’t resist a bit of life-envy with this one. The pro skier involved with this Douchebag is Jon Olsson, the Swede you may remember “for his invention of several new double flips, including a D-spin 720 into a flatspin 540 (DJ Flip), a switch double rodeo 1080 (Hexo Flip), a double flatspin 900 (Kangaroo Flip), and a switch cork 720 to flatspin 540 (The Tornado).” These days he’s trying to ski race again, and doing pretty well at it.