Since Curriculum Ex introduced the activity of Street Surfing in Schools, awareness needs to be made about cheap imitation equipment available at a fraction of the price…
…Sound good?…too good, there is a major catch. The boards, often called Vigorboards or Exboards, are unlicensed for sale in the UK!! In the same way as a pirate dvd, or football shirt finding it’s way to UK shores so do imitation wave boards unlicensed for sale in the UK.
There are major implications that worry us. Best practise means we take every step to minimise the chance of harm from inferior build quality and design of copy boards. Also we seek to support proper UK business channels. In a search to find the affordable option we do not compromise on these building blocks, as such Curriculum Ex only works and supplies kitemark licensed equipment.
The hard work we have done to build faith in a new activity could be tarnished by accidents caused by non kitemark equipment, and this would be soul destroying.
Glen Beaumont, Health & Safety officer for AfPE “
