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Article: Deck the hills: free from wheels and bindings, free-wheeling teens are bound to turn snowskating into a mainstream sport.(Rush)
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- What Magazine
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- November 1, 2003
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Maxim Tremblay was sick of not being able to be sick.
The 16-year-old skateboarder from St-Romuald, PQ (a hop, skip and an ollie from Quebec City) hated the arrival of winter, when Mother Nature would cruelly limit the chances to show off his buttery steez.
"I wanted to skateboard all year long, but I couldn't because we have snow seven months out of the year," he recalls. "There are no indoor parks around here, so when winter came we were out of luck."
Tremblay's fortunes changed three years ago when he was flipping though a skateboard magazine. "I saw an ad for something called a snowskate, something with which you could basically skateboard ...