Snowboarding Helmet – Should You Wear One?
With a very small number of exceptions, wearing a snowboarding helmet is optional. It’s up to you; it’s a personal choice. But it’s obvious, right? Wearing a helmet is safer than not wearing one. Let’s say you fall and bang your head on the icy piste, or worse, maybe a rail in the snowboard park [...]
Try Before You Buy At Hemel’s Snow Centre
Buying a snowboard can be a daunting proposition. There are many brands, models and designs to choose from. On top of that, the manufacturers, magazines and catalogues add their own idea of what snowboarder-type the board is designed for. If buying a new snowboard isn’t a regular occurrence for you, you can be left with [...]
Can You Learn To Snowboard Without Any Expensive Lessons?
Snowboarding is expensive. Lessons are expensive. Sometimes lessons are great – you come away feeling like you’ve learned so much. But like any service, sometimes a lesson isn’t that good, the quality of an instructor isn’t guaranteed. Can you do without them? Can you learn to snowboard without the expensive lessons? Yes, some people can [...]
Videos…
It’s not new, it’s not for this season, but I really want to watch the Bikecar movie. Travis Parker is probably my favourite snowboarder – I really like his approach to being a pro snowboarder That, and it just looks really fun. Here are a couple of intros/trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XngMScBBymE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USSC6L6ZrTw And, Snowboard Addiction have just [...]
Ride Slackcountry UL – My Next Powder Board?
Another board that has been mentioned a lot in the discussion of a suitable powder board is the Ride Slackcountry. For those who don’t know, “slackcountry” is a term used to describe the backcountry areas near to, and accessible by, a ski resort. So those areas aren’t really backcountry. But that’s good, because in-bounds off-piste [...]
Should You Wear Wrist Guards?
Wrist guards? Are they worth wearing? Do they help? Are they for beginners only? Read on… Good for: lots of low impact falls. Wrist guards typically have some kind of tough, plastic splints, that protects the top and bottom of the wrist. When you put your hand(s) down in a fall, your wrists benefit from [...]
Backyard Jibbing: Make Your Own Snowboard Box
I picked up this video during a discussion about how to make your own box; materials, height, width, length, that type of thing. I think the guy in the video has done a pretty good job. Apparently it took a bit of work to get the snow together and shape out the run-in, but once [...]
Update: Missing Out On Jeremy Jones’ Deeper, Online vs. In Store? And Physiotherapy
Deeper There’s a premiere of Jeremy Jones’ Deeper, tomorrow night in Amsterdam. If you don’t know, Deeper is a film put together by Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research. It’s not only Jones shredding it in – there are a bunch of other big freeriders, like Travis Rice and Johan Olofsson. From what I’ve heard [...]
