I remember after they came out with portable CD players, at first lacking any sort of skip protection it was pretty much unusable for any action sports. At the

I remember after they came out with portable CD players, at first lacking any sort of skip protection it was pretty much unusable for any action sports. At the time I enjoyed snowboarding at a local ski hill and I used my Walkman well into the life cycle of CDs making remixes of all my favorites tracks off CD's onto one cassette to listen to for the snowboarding session. Best part, no skipping! (This was around 1997) Some of the later Anti-Skip that was like 45-60 seconds would be doable, unless you are going over some moguls but for cruising without much hopping/tricks I'm sure some Anti-Skip in the 30s range would have sufficed.