Snowboarding is a Mountain Extreme Sport that exposes participants to different levels of danger. The more risky you are the more fun you have.
The first Snowboard was designed by Sherman Poppen, and was originally called the Snurfer. It was essentially a skateboard without wheels, steered by a hand-held rope, and lacked bindings.
During the 70’s and 80’s snowboarding became more popular, so a group of snowboarders came up with new designs, which have over the years developed into the “Snowboard”. Many early snowboards were difficult to control and caused trouble with the skiers, so were banned from the slopes by park officials. Snowboarders only became fully excepted in the 90’s.
Most common injuries while snowboarding are in the upper body, notably the wrist. Around 100,000 people break or fracture their wrist each year due to snowboarding.
STYLES OF SNOWBOARDING….
Freeride…
Freeride is the most common style of snowboarding. It is simply snowboarding down any available terrain. Freeride may also include aerial tricks and jib tricks borrowed from freestyle, or deep curve turns.
Freestyle…
Freestyle is when snowboarders use manmade terrain features. For example rails, boxes, handrails, jumps, half pipes, quarter pipes and a myriad of other features. These features are used to perform tricks such as aerial or jib tricks (jib tricks are just grinding the rails).
Freecarve/race…
Freecarve is also called alpine Snowboarding, and is similar in style to skiing. Alpine snowboarding is when you ride groomed runs and you focus on carved turns. Very little or no jumps are used in the style.
Common Snowboarding Competions:
Slope Style
Rail Jam
Big Air
Half- Pipe
Boarder Cross
Racing
SNOWBOARDING IS AWESOME!
The first Snowboard was designed by Sherman Poppen, and was originally called the Snurfer. It was essentially a skateboard without wheels, steered by a hand-held rope, and lacked bindings.
During the 70’s and 80’s snowboarding became more popular, so a group of snowboarders came up with new designs, which have over the years developed into the “Snowboard”. Many early snowboards were difficult to control and caused trouble with the skiers, so were banned from the slopes by park officials. Snowboarders only became fully excepted in the 90’s.
Most common injuries while snowboarding are in the upper body, notably the wrist. Around 100,000 people break or fracture their wrist each year due to snowboarding.
STYLES OF SNOWBOARDING….
Freeride…
Freeride is the most common style of snowboarding. It is simply snowboarding down any available terrain. Freeride may also include aerial tricks and jib tricks borrowed from freestyle, or deep curve turns.
Freestyle…
Freestyle is when snowboarders use manmade terrain features. For example rails, boxes, handrails, jumps, half pipes, quarter pipes and a myriad of other features. These features are used to perform tricks such as aerial or jib tricks (jib tricks are just grinding the rails).
Freecarve/race…
Freecarve is also called alpine Snowboarding, and is similar in style to skiing. Alpine snowboarding is when you ride groomed runs and you focus on carved turns. Very little or no jumps are used in the style.
Common Snowboarding Competions:
Slope Style
Rail Jam
Big Air
Half- Pipe
Boarder Cross
Racing
SNOWBOARDING IS AWESOME!
MY DREAM IS TO MOVE TO SWITZERLAND AND WORK ON A SLOPE
DURING WINTER!
HEREZ A DC VIDEO OF SOME JIB
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