| Snowboarding is one of my favorite pastimes! There | | | | First you lace up your boots. Then strap one foot into |
| is something about being in the crisp air and hurling | | | | your bindings. Then push yourself skateboard style to |
| yourself down the face of a mountain that excites me. | | | | the chair lift. The life takes you up the mountain where |
| There many types of snowboards and bindings | | | | you dismount and head to the edge of the down |
| (straps that hold you to the board). The boards are | | | | slope. At this time you strap your other foot in and |
| back country, freestyle and park. The bindings are step | | | | slide down the slope. |
| in, over strap and toe cup strap. You chose the | | | | To steer yourself down you must stay on one edge |
| bindings that fell the best for you. Back country | | | | of your board. If riding with your left foot in front you |
| boarding is when you ride in a place that very few | | | | will go right if your riding on your toe edge, then shift |
| people go, like the backside of the mountain. Free style | | | | your weight to the middle of the board for a split |
| riding is when you fallow no set path, you may do | | | | second while transferring to your heel edge to go to |
| some speed riding then slow down and enjoy the ride. | | | | the left. Do this down the slope to go the way you |
| Park riding is when you ride over jumps and | | | | would like. The straighter you point your board the |
| jibs(obstacles placed in the way to ride over and on). | | | | faster you will go. To stop you must turn your board |
| All types of riding are very enjoyable, it's a matter of | | | | completely perpendicular to the mountain. |
| personal choice. Snowboarding has become very | | | | Hope this article helped with snowboarding, see you at |
| popular in recent years as and alternative to skiing. So | | | | the mountain. |
| lets go over a run (trip up and down the mountain). | | | | |