Snowboarding for Beginners
How to Snowboard the first day
Information on how to snowboard for beginners explained. Tips to get you skating, turning and stopping on your snowboard.
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Basic Stance
To learn how to snowboard you need to have a good stance. Before you put your snowboard you should explore where your basic stance is. Read full snowboard article
- Stand so you have equal weight on both feet and your body is aligned and not twisted.
- Keep your arms at your side and out slightly for balance.
How to Hot Wax a Snowboard
Waxing your snowboard provides immediate benefits and is easy to do. With a few tools and an hour anyone can put a fresh coat of wax on their snowboard and slide better than ever.
Benefits of waxing your snowboard
Waxing your snowboard will make the base more resistant to wear and tear from regular use, prolonging the life of your board. Waxing will also make your snowboard slide better which will make riding easier. Easier riding makes for longer time spent on the hill.Read full snowboard article
Responsibility Code
Your Responsibility Code
Snowboarding like other Extreme Sports can have different levels of danger. Snowboard injuries happen every year from minor scratches to serious injury even death. Knowledge can help you prepare and prevent dangerous situations. Know the code below and share it with fellow snowboarders you encounter on your trips.
Every person skier or snowboarder on the mountain should know
Your Responsibility Code Read full snowboard article
- Always stay in control.
- People ahead of you have the right of way.
Snowboarding Styles
Snowboarding styles break down
Snowboarding is categorized into three different categories of Freestyle, Freeride, and Alpine/Carving. They are different styles all to their own with die-hards in each, but most snowboarders blend two or more of these styles together.
Freestyle Snowboarding
Uses man made features to ride on or off of to perform tricks while on the feature or in the air. Read full snowboard article
Snowboard Intermediate Tips
Snowboard Intermediate Tips
Once you have the basics what next? In order to advance in Snowboarding we need to know what movements to make and why we are making them.
Basic vs Dynamic
In the beginning we use basic body movements to turn, as we advance we can explore the movements our body can make to cause actions in our snowboard.
Basic Snowboard Turns-
In a basic snowboard turns we don't use a lot of movements of our joints, we don't flex or extend our knees or ankles much and we often use too much rotation in our upper body to start the turn.Read full snowboard article