Will A Freestyle Snowboard Help You To Learn Tricks?
Tweet You might be in the position where you’re wondering if a different board will help you with learning tricks – will a freestyle board help? The short answer is “yes”. Here’s why… A shorter board. Your freestyle board will be shorter than an all-mountain or freeride counterpart. “Shorter” brings a few benefits when it [...]
A Practical Guide To Learning How To Ollie
Tweet Why should you want to be able to ollie? Well, if you’re starting to look at some freestyle snowboarding the answer is obvious. The ollie forms the foundation for almost every trick that you’re going to do. It might not be the case now, but the ollie will become second nature to you. You [...]
How To Work Out If It’s Frontside or Backside
Tweet You will often hear snowboarders talk about frontside and backside: “a frontside 360″, “a backside 180″ or “a frontside boardslide”. But if these terms are new to you, the whole thing can seem quite confusing! Read on for the answers. Snowboard jumps and spins For jumps, frontside and backside refer to the direction of [...]
Snowboard Park Etiquette
Tweet The snowboard park can be a lot of fun – but it can also be a little daunting if you’re new there. Are there rules that you need to follow? A code of conduct? What it considered park etiquette? This article describes some of the general dos and don’ts for using the park. If [...]
Learning How to Butter on a Snowboard
Tweet A textual description on a blog isn’t the best means of learning to butter, nevertheless, this approach with the help of a few pictures may help you out. You can learn from your friends, from an instructor, or from some of the many videos online that show how to butter. I’ll offer my own [...]
3 Snowboarding Tricks to Try on a Box
Tweet Are you starting out with some park riding? Putting some time into riding boxes and rails? If so, here are a few things that you might have fun trying out, once you’ve got the basics covered… And by basics I mean 50-50s and boardslides. The 50-50 is almost certainly the first trick that you’re [...]
How Important is Having “The Right Board” for Buttering?
Tweet Buttering on a snowboard is a lot of fun. Once you get the hang of it, it opens up a lot of freestyle possibilities, both on the piste, and pressing on rails and boxes. Add some style to your shredding. But if you’re only just starting to think about it, or you’re still in [...]
Snowboard Addiction Freestyle Lessons Review: Part 2
Tweet Snowboard Addiction provide a whole load of instructional snowboard lessons. This is part 2 of the Freestyle Lessons review. Part 1 provided an introduction to the content included in the course, which is extensive, along with some initial impressions of the material. In part 2, I’ll comment on some of the stand-out bits of [...]
