SNOWBOARDING

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SNOWBOARDING
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Why its extreme?

• dangerous
• cause serious injury
• may cost you youre life

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Equipment

• Snowboard
• Boots
• Bindings
• Clothing

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3 Different Styles

• Free ride
• Free style
• Free carve/Alpine

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Free ride

• Characteristics
• mostly practiced
• downhill boarding on a slope
• riding in powder snow
• doing acrobatic jumps off cliffs

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Free ride- equipment

• Board
• symmetric shaped
• shoulder height
• stiff

• Boots
• soft boots

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Free style

• Characteristics
• practiced by young
• perform acrobatic jumps in a half pipe
• similar to skateboarding

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Free style- equipment

• Board
• similar to free ride
• shorter
• lighter
• more flexible

• Boots
• soft boots
• (same as free ride)
• helmet, elbow, knee pads are advised

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Free carve/Alpine

• Characteristics
• racing
• emphasis on speed and technique of carving
  (turns)

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Free carve/Alpine- equipment

• Board
• asymmetric
• smaller
• ski like shape

• Boots
• hard boots

• Board
• asymmetric
• smaller
• ski like shape