I've done some custom things with Gator Grip myself. I have a stomp pad on my snowboard that is shaped like the "A" in Airwalk and it totally looks like it's some commercially made stuff. So, if you wanted to get fancy, you could.
By the way the Nautique no pads are hard, what they call sano pads, and really don't provide much traction.
Chris
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