Getting Started: How Do You Know If You’re Regular Or Goofy?
What is “regular” and what is “goofy”? These terms refer to the orientation of a snowboarders body in relation to their direction of travel – it’s part of your stance. You stand sideways on a snowboard – so you’re moving with either your left foot forward, or your right foot forward. Regular = left foot [...]
How to Prepare for Your First Snowboard Lesson or Your First Day on the Mountain
If you’re getting ready for your first time on a board you might be feeling a mixture of anxiety and excitement. That’s natural. If you’ve got some spare time before your first couple of sessions, there are a few things that you can do in preparation, to help the learning process go as smoothly as [...]
Don’t Just Blindly Book Your Snowboard Lessons
Learning to snowboard is something I like to write about on this blog, and a key part to the discussion is the snowboarding lesson. Given that myself, and friends, have paid for one or two lessons that haven’t been very good – I’ve had in mind to put forward a few things that you should [...]
How Many People Learn to Snowboard Without Lessons?
This is a follow up to the original post: Learn To Snowboard Without Any Expensive Lessons? That article considered the view that some people are capable of learning to snowboard, without lessons – and in doing so they could save the expense of using an instructor. Different people pick up snowboarding at a different rate; [...]
The Stomp Pad (And One-Footing)
The snowboard stomp pad is a simple, but effective addition to your snowboarding setup. In a nutshell, the stomp pad provides grip for your back foot when it’s not strapped into the binding. Job done. But here’s the question: do you need one? Is the stomp pad seen as a tool for beginners only? The [...]
What Does A Snowboard Lesson Offer You?
Why would you want to get a snowboarding lesson? The obvious answer is to improve. But what do you get from a lesson on the hill that you can’t get elsewhere? I recently explored the idea of learning to snowboard without taking expensive lessons. In this article, we’ll look at the things that a lesson [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
