The B-Peg project explores how a purpose-built prosthesis can support snowboarding movements. Workshop views and footage on snow make the relationship between a mechanical idea and a rider’s experience visible.
B-Peg’s design and January 2014 trial
The archive credits Liang-Ti Tan’s design work and manufacturing support from Boers FijnMetaal for rider Jos Zaal, with testing at Val Thorens in January 2014. Those details describe that project, not present-day product availability.
A demonstration is not a universal prescription
Fit, movement and individual needs are central to adaptive equipment. The film does not establish clinical approval or suitability for every amputee. Its value is in showing design shaped around a particular activity and user, with testing as part of the process.
Explore more: protective equipment and its limits; another specialised snowboard-and-ski film setting.
Related reading: Maria Leijerstam’s Tricycle Journey to the South Pole.
Video: B-Peg Prosthetic Leg for Snowboarding V2 (published by Lee Tan).
The rider is central to the design brief
The collaboration gives the project its strongest story. Liang-Ti Tan supplied the design, Boers Fijnmetaal fabricated parts, and Jos Zaal was the rider named in the trial. Those are different contributions to the same practical question: how might a prosthesis be shaped around snowboarding? Workshop views show the object as a mechanism; the Val Thorens footage places it with a person on snow. Keeping both perspectives prevents the rider from disappearing behind the novelty of the equipment’s appearance.
Version two records a stage in development
The linked upload identifies B-Peg as version two and dates the Val Thorens trial to January 2014. That wording places the demonstration within a development process rather than presenting it as the final answer for every rider. Liang-Ti Tan’s design and the fabrication work by Boers Fijnmetaal remain credited separately, making the collaboration behind the prototype clear.
Sources, photography and further reading
Original feature and image attributions:
- Lee Tan
- Unofficial Networks
- That's An Inspiring Story From A Para-Snowboarder Woman. She's Just Amazing!
- 1 Year-Old Baby Snowboards Better Than Most People. This Make You Smile!
- Terminally Boy, 3,Who May Never See Snow Again Woke Up To Magical Winter Wonderland Created By His Mother In Front Garden.
- protective equipment and its limits
- another specialised snowboard-and-ski film setting
- Maria Leijerstam’s Tricycle Journey to the South Pole
- B-Peg Prosthetic Leg for Snowboarding V2
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