Jul 20, 2010

Freestyle Snowboard Tips and Gears


Have you ever heard about snowboarding? This is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. There are different styles of snowboarding, all with various gears and snowboards too.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are still thinking that snowboarding is merely an extreme sport, the same as skateboard, bungee jumping, or sky diving. But since 1998, snowboarding have became one of Winter Olympic sports, thus many youngster have choose to pursue a career in snowboarding, besides make it as a hobby for others.

Many professional athletes, both man and woman, gain fame from snowboarding, such as Shaun White, Ekaterina Ilyukhina, Tora Bright, or Maelle Ricker, the first Canadian who win Olympic gold medal on home ground, when she won in 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics for snowboard cross on.


If you want to learn snowboarding, or even become an expert in it, there is no better way than learning to the pros. You can train to do The Rodeo 540, McTwist, or Melon to a professional snowboard freestyler, like Etienne Peysson, the one who wrote about top 10 snowboard tricks.


Freestyle Snowboarding

In freestyle snowboarding, the rider uses manmade terrain features such as rails, jumps, boxes, and innumerable other innovative features to perform tricks on. The term "box" refers to an object with a slick top, that the rider can slide on with the base of their board. The objective of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks.

The equipment used in freestyle snowboarding is usually a soft boot with a twin tipped board for better balance while riding regular or switch. Although, it's also common to use stiff soft boot with a directional twin snowboard, that usually for preparing to encounter many different types of snow conditions, such as ice and deep powder.

To check about the best snowboarding equipment, including snowboards, boots, goggles, gloves, and helmets, just visit www.evogear.com. This online shop explores the collaboration between culture and sport by seamlessly joining art, music, streetwear, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing and wakeboarding.

Snowboards for woman, you can buy these in EvoGear.com


While for the news about this sport, you might want to subscribe to Snowboard Magazine, where you can find various information about snowboard equipments and products, the best spot for snowboarding, or famous figure in snowboarding.

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