Combine bodyboarding with snowboarding and you’ve got an idea of where a couple of Aussie brothers want to take sledding.

In Ben and Michael Bateman’s amped world, sledding is an action sport complete with taking jumps and grinding rails.

The two are the driving forces behind the AXS Sled. It is, in essence, a top deck on a snowboard. They’ll take to crowdfunding on Kickstarter on November 10 to hopefully raise nearly $200,000 for the final stages of engineering and mass production.

The Bateman brothers, based in New South Wales, are gunning for a product revolution that will have iconic athletes like those they admired growing up—Shaun White, Travis Rice, and Jake Stone—taking to diverse terrain on their boards.

Growing up on extreme sports with passions for snowboarding, paddleboarding, surfing, and longboarding, the idea was sparked while attending a snowboard demo in Toowoomba, Australia in Queensland. The pair laid out a run that went from crushed ice onto a table top ramp.

“To gain enough speed to hit the ramp we tied wakeboard tow ropes to the back of a dirt bike and towed the guys in,” Ben wrote on the Snoogee Sleds website. “Watching the guys enjoying themselves, I started thinking about adding another element to our fun by creating a body board for the snow.”

Fast forward and Ben’s stateside with his young family living outside of New Haven, Connecticut in Hamden. He and his wife had season passes at a local feeder hill to get his daughters into snowboarding. They also did some sledding, but soon Ben grew bored.

He started thinking about merging the carving turns of snowboarding with the freestyle moves of body boarding.

Eventually the family moved back to the Land Down Under and he, brother Michael and father Rob formed a sled company and started experimenting with various options.

The first prototypes of the AXS Sled were simply bodyboards attached to snowboards by trucks.

“After testing in the Australian Alps for two years, we took three prototypes to Canada,” Ben explained. “We tested the sleds in and around Ottawa, Ontario and near Whistler, B.C. Using the data we had gathered and with the expertise of an industrial designer friend, we created our own top decks and suspension spacers.”

Power, control, and agility grew as well in a discipline big on a low center of gravity.

The top deck is now completely rigid, unlike the original bodyboard. This stiff top deck is also concave from nose to tip. These design changes were made to ensure riders were comfortable on the board and to ensure force was concentrated on the bottom board and not on the rider.

“My wife once gave me a plaque that read ‘Surfing is not a matter of life or death, it’s much more important than that.’ I think she quickly understood that my passion for boardsports sometimes verges on obsession,” Ben said in a statement. “This love of all things action led to the creation of the AXS Sled.”

The sled can be ridden in a simple sledding position, where the user lays flat on the top deck, or it can be made more extreme by riding with one knee down and slightly propped up on the board. The sled is also able to grind on rails and catch air over jumps. However, unlike other action sports equipment, the sled doesn’t require steep hills or fresh powder.

The Kickstarter campaign to raise $195,000 will last for 28 days and provides an opportunity for backers of the product to pre-order a sled and achieve bragging rights for being among the first to own one.

Tentative pricing options are $320 early bird without snowboard, then $370, and $475 early bird with snowboard, then $575.

Images courtesy of AXS Sled