Snowboard In Your Living Room

I became attached to snowboarding thanks to years of my brother’s influence and his own addiction to it. Unfortunately, snowboarding isn’t something you can do year round, and you’re only limited to winters unless you decide to go extreme and take a helicopter ride to the highest mountain you can reasonably find. To sort of overcome this issue, you can either go to the video arcade and waste tons of money on a snowboard simulator or buy your own snowboard for your living room. I personally choose the latter.

The Qmotions-Xboard enables you to enjoy today’s most popular snowboarding, skateboarding or surfing games (arcade-style), in the comfort of your living room. You feel like you’re in the game with titles such as SSX, Amped and the Tony Hawk. The Xboard will connect to your Xbox, PS2 as well as your PC to provide you with that lifelike board sport experience. It also provides an excellent way to stay in shape with all the balancing you need to do on this board. It may be small, but it’s a challenge to balance on.

You may remember the iJoy Board that I wrote about back in March. Well, the Xboard is much smaller and significantly cheaper. The Xboard is so small you could pack it in your luggage if you feel possessed to travel with it. It will also cost a little less than $100 (as opposed to $400 for the iJoy Board).

Other products Qmotions offers include Qmotions-Baseball, Qmotions-Golf and Qmotions-FunFitness. The recently launched Baseball delivers full motion player participation with popular PC and console-based video games. Just step up to the plate with your provided Batter-Up sleeve equipped bat and swing. You can do all of the full swing batting, bunting, pull, up-the-middle and opposite field hitting.

The Qmotions-Golf Full Motion Game Controller ($200), similar to Real World Golf, gives you a way to play golf indoors with your favorite golf game titles such as EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour and others. Lastly, soon to come is the Qmotions-FunFitness Full Motion Game Controller (under $100, to be launched soon). It turns your exercise bike into a video racing game. It is compatible with most stationary recumbent bikes. It’s easy to install on your bike, with no tools necessary. It works with racing games such as EA SPORTS’ NASCAR Chase for the Cup 2005. If your bike is collecting dust in the corner, this will hopefully get you motivated to do something.

Each one of these devices has its own way of promoting fitness and are alternative methods of staying somewhat fit. For more information, or a list of retailers, check out www.qmotions.com.