Tips For A Beginner Snowboarder

2023 Author: Madeline Holiday | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-07-30 22:01

For beginner snowboarders, only two conditions are required. If you decide to master snowboarding, first select the appropriate equipment, and before you start descending the mountain, first of all, learn how to brake correctly. For the rest, use your intuition and common sense. Location: Location:

When choosing an equipment for skiing, opt for inexpensive, wide and low boards with at least a wooden core. For beginners, the length of the snowboard should roughly match the level of the chin. Do not be confused by the decent weight of the board - on the slope this will be more of a plus than a minus: heavy wide boards are more obedient and forgive many mistakes.

For a start, it is better not to buy a shell, but to rent it. It is possible that after some time you will realize, for example, that you don’t really like this activity, you don’t have time for skiing, or you simply don’t want to go to the mountains in winter. It is more expedient to buy a shell for yourself in the spring, when discounts on winter equipment are available in all sports stores.

But the selection of equipment must be approached as responsibly as possible: even if you quit snowboarding, outerwear and underwear will come in handy for hiking and long trips for many years. Therefore, choose clothes made of high-quality synthetic materials, which, on the one hand, retain heat, wick away sweat and are breathable, on the other hand, they are waterproof and windproof. You will appreciate the quality of your clothes on a chairlift in a twenty-degree frost, when you have to climb for about 30 minutes in a strong wind.

Be sure to purchase glasses. They must be of very high quality, with at least two layers of ventilation chambers. In addition to the fact that the glasses protect your eyes from bright sunlight, snow and wind, they will well protect your face during falls, which are inevitable: on a heavily rolled slope covered with a hard crust, you can seriously injure the skin on your face.

Gloves should be pulled over the sleeves of the jacket and be reinforced in the palm and fingers with special pads: in the first year they will have to come into contact with the hard snow cover of the track many times. They must be made of quality materials to keep your hands from freezing and also to keep the inner glove from getting wet from sweat.

Install both bindings on the board at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the snowboard: this will make it easier for you to determine which foot is the lead and you can try to ride in different stances without spending too much time. There is another way to define who you are - goofy (lead - left) or regular (lead - right). Ask someone close to you to unexpectedly push you slightly in the back. The factor of surprise plays the main role here. The foot that you put forward to maintain balance is the leading and "back" on the snowboard.

Once on the slope, first of all, master both methods of braking: back and facing the slope. The first option does not require much effort; the second will take longer. And then you just need to look closely at how others skate and improve your skating technique.