This Invention Turns Grass Into Snow

These are grass skis. And about a week ago we saw this Instagram reel. We got really inspired and we ordered them. It looks like a track that you mount a ski boot to and they just fly down the grass. So today we're going to test them. We're going to start in a mellow park and we're going to work all the way up to what we would consider the double black diamonds. We just saw them for the first time. I originally thought it was like rollerblades with wheels but it's actually one big track that just spins. Then you use your normal ski boots and you're just fully locked in. It's not like skis where it's like bindings and you pop out if you fall. If you eat, you're just locked in with this thing. Okay, we have no idea how these things work. It looks kind of like a ski binding. Yeah, you should like, I feel like you should spin it. It actually feels pretty good. Look, it's like a tank track, and it's got like little balls on it, and then like a plastic sheeting around a belt. It kind of feels like a ski, just way tippier. Oh, wow. They feel like skis, but way lighter. Let's see if we can skate around. Yeah, try a skate. Oh my God. Wow. Wow. That's sick. It looks like it's ice. First run. Grass looks like ice. What? No way. Oh my God. That actually looks insane. It looks like you're doing the sidestep and everything. Sidestep hiking, dude. Oh, I'm so sick. Wait, 49 ski boots in August is so funny, dude. Global warming happens when we're chilling, or when it happens. Oh yeah, hold the poles, that's gonna be. So for beginners, you still do pizza and french fries, right? So as most of y'all know, I don't ski normally, but today I'm grass skiing. Come on, team. Oh, my gosh. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't want to touch your front rubblers together. Rubblers? Try a little 180s. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Will you try the chairlift real quick? We set up a chairlift for this video because our goal is to try to actually make grass skiing like a resort riding. So Charlie's going to drop in with another test run, then we'll see if our chairlift's working. Guys, this is awesome. I'm doing more of an aggressive run now. Dude. Oh, my god. He's actually going pretty fast. Oh, my god. Yeah, you ready? Here he comes. Dude, you're going to lift hot laps. First thoughts are they almost feel like skiing, but the stopping and turning part, which is super crucial, feels way sketchier and different. No way. Let's go, boys. Wow. Holy . How's it going? Nice to meet you, man. How are you? I'm Will. We're meeting our heroes today, Misfit Minds, One of the smaller channels on YouTube. They just came for some advice. These grass skis? Yeah. I think I saw this on the Seaboys channel the other day. Yeah, I know. This always happens to us. Every time we come up with an idea, something happens in the universe and Seaboys get there two days before we did. What's the weight limit on them? Is it like 900 pounds? Oh, I might have to skip today. Also, you're saying it's a mellow run. There's about five trees and it looks like almost mogul. It's mogul. We haven't got there yet, this is mogul training. We're gonna have to dodge the lawn mower. It's like you turn on your snowboard and ski brake. It's so funny, I'm like, oh yeah, I could traverse over there, like hit this drop. Oh ----. It's just a part. Let's figure out the mechanics of the turn. Yeah. Okay. So I'm just gonna pretend I'm skiing an ankle and see what happens. All right. Oh, looking a little sketch. Oh, okay, kind of just one big turn. Oh, there was another turn. Can't explain it, but it turns just like snow. That actually looked like it turned great. I just gave it a go and it turned. Wow, well that's good. At least we can turn. All right, chairlift. Here, give me some juice. Dude, we turned this park into an entire ski resort. You just winch back up and then hit it. Have you seen these, Nino? Yes. One time. On Seaboys. Yeah, we've been on chairlifts today. Seaboys, dude. Chuck's dad over here. He looks like when you go to Walmart and you're like a little too big to walk around the aisles. You got like your Cheetos, your two liter right here. I heard you hurt your knee in a pretty gnarly way. How was it? Yeah, I tore two ligaments in my knee. How'd you do it, though? Putting a sock on. Putting a sock on? I thought it was taking it off. Well, one of the two. ------- hell. They said he was like this trying to get his sock off. Just straight off the bone. Snap. With the pull of a sock. It actually kind of impressed him. All right, Forrest and I are dropping in to do our first literal park run. Will's going to be better at this than me. He's a good skier. But I'm going to try to keep up with him as best I can. We're just going to bomb this thing, you know? Send it later boys. Oh my god. I've been all the way to the top of the hill. That's actually insane Oh God skiing I just had as much fun as actually skiing these are low-key insane i definitely think you could hit a jumping backflip and all kinds of stuff and now he's gonna go back up i can do this all day dude we literally just turned the park into a ski resort oh yeah i got a third eye chalky dance just ripping around oh god get him out push him that's a big positivity to I didn't think you were making that. You came in with speed, bro. I'm talking. They got all that ass swagger, but can they ski? Oh, nah, this is f***ed up. I just kind of went, like, I was looking at it over there, and I'm like, it's actually not, like, good here. Were you talking smack about our stunts? I was not talking smack. I just think you guys copy the Cboys a little. Oh, my God. You know, once you buckle me up, I have to go. It's great. It's soft. Wait, what are you trying to do? Just sitting here. Also, you don't have to do this if you don't want to. Oh, yeah, that's easy to say when you put them on me, mate. slight bend in the knees slight squat be balanced let him get a little testy let him feel it's a roll okay oh yeah oh yeah oh man you told me to push you oh you don't get your toe behind oh god i want to do an ac oh jesus pull them up the homie bro geez bro you were just going straight yeah yeah yeah just hold it i literally reckon what bend your knees like your back no you just bent your back even more bend your knees get low no you're bending your back go Do you want me to just push ya? Nah, f*** no. Yeah, yeah, let's go. Yes! Yes! Nice! Well, I think we have officially maxed the park out, so now we're on the hunt for level two. We are at a backcountry line now. We have this hill here that we're going to try to ski down, and it looks pretty mellow. The problem is, it's covered in rocks, so that's going to make it a little extreme. I have my ski socks here, because I'm about to put my ski boots on in the middle of the summer, and it's like 90 I missed the training session, so this is my first time trying the skis, which is a little spooky on rock graveyards I'm getting oil in the ******* Oh Joaquin If you got hurt, we'd have to find another Argentinian editor guys. This is Joaquin He's one of the editors on the team and he's from Argentina He just got to Hood River like two days ago Had an internet relationship for a year and we finally just met up in person. Yeah, we just saw his face I kind of feel like I got catfished He's a great guy Oh, dude. Oh, he expected me to be one of the girls on your thumbnails. No. Oh. Damn. Jake, can we launch this drone? True. Guys, we just got a new drone, and we're pretty excited about it. Some of you guys that have been around this summer, Rupert ******* bit the dust. It was one of the most tragic days of my life. I had a drone for five years. All of the drone footage you're going to see in this episode is captured on the DJI Avata 360. This is a 360 drone, so it deletes the whole drone. and in theory, we can get any angle, any time by just hovering here. So Jackson's really stoked on this cause he's been flying it outside Sam and Joaquin's house to make sure that they're still working. It's super easy to fly, basically anybody can do it and you get a full 360 view. Now the sickest part about it is it charges from zero to full in about 40 minutes, so that when and if your employees are not working, you'll be back on the clock surveying them in no time. You wanna know one of the best features on the drone? Active track, so when your stupid employee's trying to run away from the surveillance camera Are you talking about all of them everywhere? They go without you even touching the controller? Oh god. I'm gonna go grab a battery Cameraman forgot the bottom camera needs battery at the bottom of the hill run. Yeah, wait go follow you the drone run sprint It's free. Why run? Oh, it's fast as ----. Oh my god. Yeah Want to see how close I can stop my face Oh, this thing's insane. Sam, I'm here, puppy. Woo! This drone is insane. He's holding the other employee hostage. Holy smokes. That is the sickest thing ever. Guys, if you want to check out the Avata 360, it's actually the sickest drone of all time, as you can see, and as you're about to see throughout this whole video. It's the drone we're using in every single shot you're going to see. Check out the link in the description below. If you're interested, highly recommend. I'm so ready to shred, come on. Okay, first feel for myself on these skis. I can't believe it works in a rocky field. These skis are magical. So far it feels like when you're skiing and you have a bunch of stuff stuck on the bottom of your ski and it's like really sticky. That's what it feels like. Okay, going for a speed lap now. Are you ready? Straight line the F out of it and don't turn until you have a ton of speed. I'm gonna go as fast as I can. safe have fun ready okay here we go ready thanks well set go oh wow that's pretty cool so the lamest thing i've ever seen can you somehow do it like that but way less lame have more fun watching the roku home screen play the same thing over and over again than that i had nothing like a feeling after a sick back country line i was pretty lame so now we found in a park a massive straight grass hill and a good run out so we are going to try to see how fast these skis can go and reach the top speeds this is by far the biggest hill and based on our first test i think you're going to be going about 50 miles an hour right here and it's going to be super sketch this is the cat track gap yeah there's a track at the bottom of the run in you always see all those clips people gap in the cat track basically the same thing grass ski edition will you give us a speed test down the hill just go slow roll it roll down I Think we're going way faster than that even he was I don't think so. I'm wide open Dude, that's a nice ass speaker, bro. This guy doesn't give a JBL JBL. Check your DM with that bought one of those I think I've ever seen those bought one similar, but yeah, I got that one the one we bought with black in that size Oh, yeah, and you guys all got brand new turtle boxes and I didn't Okay, but did you take it? I don't remember. It doesn't- Oh my god! Man, we f***ing lost! And I didn't get a turtle box! Who wouldn't get a turtle box? No, there was a conversation that I could have that one, you guys just all forgot. You claimed your moment and gave it to you for Christmas! Oh yeah! Alright, we are going to put on our boots and slowly go higher and higher up this hill until it gets sketchy fast. I don't know if we can go from the top, but... Where's your helmet? Oh yeah, you should definitely put a helmet on. Alright, you want this? What the f- DUDE! OH GOD! NO! No way it's gonna- DUDE! It would've been a crazy thing to get hit by the helmet. Oh my god! Look at the speaker! Aren't you glad I brought my speaker? Aren't you glad I brought my speaker, Kyle? Fucked up! Instincts of the Fjords, dude. How did you bring up the Instincts of the Fjords? Think about all the events that had to happen for that to be okay. Grandpa had to climb the hill, the speaker had to blow out, it landed next to Kyle and Kyle. It just- It just- It just- It just- It just- It just- It just- to grab it will and charlie are going to do a warm-up from about halfway up the hillish just feel things out feel out this path because this hill is pretty steep and this path makes it sketchy all right wow okay i think the top is gonna be really fast but i think it's possible well hiking up here i was like we should just go from the top i think i was a little overconfident we're gonna try to go from the very top of this hill i think whatever speed we achieve here is the maximum speed we're going on grass skis a doper yeah this is pretty high this is gonna be properly gnarly god damn i was talking a big ass game dude now i'm pretty scared holy oh man well this is like it has curvature to it this is pretty proper charlie this is kind of gnarly max is so close to me with this drone what is this whoa max All right, they are doing the mega hill bomb from the very, very, very top. Maximum speed, as fast as they can, and have to gap this path. So, we're going to really see how much speed these skis can handle on this. Wait, should we go together? I'm going. You want to join me? Okay, but what's your line? Let's go together. It'll be funnier. Okay, three, two, one. Oh, they're going together. Okay, here they go. Go farther right. Go farther right. Go farther right. Go farther right. Holy ****, that was intense. It worked! I'm mobbing though. They went all the way up the hill for that. They did. I never want to do that again, dude. That was really fast, oh my god, yeah! Black diamond conquered, speed run conquered. Now it's time for some freestyle. Alright guys, we have found a perfect jump in the next stage of these skis. Let's find out, can they jump? We have our winch set up, and the idea is to clear this knuckle on the grass. This would be like a pretty big jump on normal skis. but we want to see if we can do it on the grass skis. Caden and I are walking up to get this. We're in a park, we have the winch, we have our jump, and we're gonna rock, paper, scissors, who goes first? Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Oh, . This is probably the largest jump that we've ever seen be hit on the grass skis. Is that Will or Caden having the last minute buckle? That's Will, that's Will, obviously. Actually, if it works, that was a sick jump. Yes, all right, I'm ready. Oh my God, oh my God, holy ----. Yeah, that was pretty good pretty good. Okay, that was sick. That was sick. Our goal with this is to try to get to the other side of the jump. This jump is crazy kicky. Did it feel like a ski jump? Yeah, but this jump's way kickier than you think. Basically these things are insane. It actually feels like sitting at a sick jump skiing, honestly. I think you could start to clear this table top and like maybe you could hit a 360. This gives me big confidence to how the back flip is gonna go later in the video. First attempt could not have gone any better. That was amazing. Caden is next. I have a feeling that Caden's gonna clear this thing first try though. If you're gonna clear it, you're gonna go huge. Do you think they need to go quite a bit faster? Yeah, so every step we're leveling up a little bit on the speed. I don't know how I'd sign up for this job, but I'm the speed man somehow. Yeah, looks like he's ready. Ready? All right, here we go. Fast jumper. Oh, we still aren't doing it He landed the jump kinda knuckle, and then he almost just skidded into the freaking landing. What did it feel like? In the middle of the air, you're like, all right. we're getting pretty close to clearing this table it's like the stupidest thing ever but i'm also so invested to see how high they can go charlie just switched the winch into fast mode and i need to be careful because i have a crazy history of going too fast on ready oh god oh that's fast oh my gosh that was it no way that's the line so much faster that time Dude, it looked like you just hit a sweet cat track ski jump. It was actually so funny, dude. Alright, lock in king. Ready? Lock in king. Wow. Dude, I kind of think if you held on longer you could gap this table. Real good. What do you think? It's the angle. Wow. So going off this landing there, Joaquin, you like when I do that for the cam. What? Shut the up more often Wow, are you dead ass, bro? Will's hitting this and he's gonna try a big hip jump right here. It might be a huge All right. Here we go. Trying to clear the biggest jump of the day. Maybe grass skis history. Holy ----. Here we go All right. Will, Will's coming in hot right now and he's gonna go massive. Oh, yeah Yeah! Into the bowl, that was huge. Gnarliest thing is with Forrest on the one wheel. Follow camming. Three seconds behind him, like. We're going again to do something, not sure what. All right, Caden's going, he wants more. This might be the last hit of, this might be, yeah, two skip. Savage! Let's go! Let's go! Okay, that's our guy. That's our boy. Successful 360. Big jump is here, and we've been waiting for this moment all video. We are about to hit this jump and hopefully backflip. I don't think anyone's ever back flipped these. I'm almost sure. So far they felt just like skiing. I hope it's like same thing. You just go in and just boop. This is the jump that we got and it's our slip and slide jump and it's massive. And so kicky. Safety pads to make it better because this thing's too big. Well, if you didn't have pads, you're actually gonna go 10 feet to grass and explode your feet. Oh yeah. Speed check. All right, I'm going to try straight air. Just really small first. Operation. Wait, B, it doesn't work from down here. Working. I'm trying to figure out the right speed for a backflip. The ride out is a little sketchy, dude. There's kind of a cliff off the end of the mats. Definitely a narrow runway. Dude, I just wish we had a bigger landing zone. Our landing is so skinny. There's not a lot of margin for error. No. To decide who goes first for the backflip, we're going to do a little geography quiz. quickly and whoever loses goes first is they have to name a US States as quick as possible and they cannot duplicate a state yeah what if we get to that I'd be really surprised if you get actually three two one Oregon Washington Montana Wyoming Florida Nevada New York Illinois Texas North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska. Idaho. That's been said. Oh yeah, it was, yeah. Great game. Holding on the whole time. Caden started stuttering on North Dakota. He started to lose track. ****, I lose everything we do. Also guys, we have a secondary platform, Seacoast TV. We do extra content behind the scenes, tons of fun stuff on there. And we are going to be giving away two pairs of these grass skis for you and a friend. It massively helps support the channel and having us keep doing this fun stuff. And you can win these skis. go to link in our description there'll be info how to sign up you know what everyone can use these because i don't know anywhere in the world where you don't have a grass or some type of hill the sahara desert all right i'm going b i'm going big moment of the video this is it it all came to this i'm gonna go up and then go pretty quick you ready myself up have fun thanks okay thanks my god another week another pretty dumb backflip this is for you guys love you i hope this goes all right okay now i can hit a session will's going for first try i think he's going to perfectly do a backflip but i don't think he's going to land and ride onto the grass which would be like the legitimate backflip all right ready oh god that was amazing perfect backflip onto the grass, Kaden you're up though that's going to be really sketchy for you it ain't over yet okay here's the only difference will always been really good at ski backflips me has a tough go with ski backflips first one i ever tried broke my collarbone in high school and i peer pressured you into it yeah now ever since then i've been scared of backflips so hopefully this goes well okay i'm ready i'm gonna go do it here goes Kaden on a backflip i'm almost sure that Kaden's gonna nail this as well at least get really really pretty much on his feet drop how did that feel kind of blacked out for it but it's really good you kind of want to do it again and try to land it run it i'm gonna try to get it clean and ride out oh just belly flop on the ground well dang it's so squishy it's hard to ride out of it i really want to land and ride away i got 20 bucks if you roll away clean right now 20 bucks if i roll away clean i'll tip it another five really i'll give you a nickel 25 and a nickel yeah all right get me up there dude i'm ready Woo-hoo! Katie Poopy is going, again. Third try's the charm. Okay, this is the one. That was insane. Twenty five minutes