Snowboarding website/resources
I'm looking for the best snowboard website with a lot of resources, possibly manuals and tips for selfteaching tricks (first year I'm going boarding without getting lessons).
I've taken lessons each year for the past 7 or so years, each 5 days a year. Also, I'm God Tier at balancing and a snowboarder without fear (out of the 7 years this has result into 2x crushed ribs, 4x knee injury, 1x back injury, 1x sternum injury. Note: this is not cool)
I want to teach myself some more tricks. Any site/book that can help me with this? I can do terrible 540s, decent 360s, okay 180s. All with grabs (automatism). All sorts of slides and whatnot.
Any suggestions?
I've taken lessons each year for the past 7 or so years, each 5 days a year. Also, I'm God Tier at balancing and a snowboarder without fear (out of the 7 years this has result into 2x crushed ribs, 4x knee injury, 1x back injury, 1x sternum injury. Note: this is not cool)
I want to teach myself some more tricks. Any site/book that can help me with this? I can do terrible 540s, decent 360s, okay 180s. All with grabs (automatism). All sorts of slides and whatnot.
Any suggestions?
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I live in the Netherlands. I go to France/Austria/Switzerland once, sometimes twice a year to snowboard. There's such little time I spend snowboarding on yearly basis.
This in combination with the conditions needed for back country and freeriding... I don't know.
I'd like to know your thought process behind your suggestions though. Why do you recommend back country/freeriding over freestyling?
Backcountrying might be a bit harder to apprehend, but a good start is to go off the slopes, right next to the groomed portions, to get a feeling of the difference. In the end, it feels more refreshing as you don't just crowd around with the other snowboarders. It's much softer and I feel it's a smoother, more calming experience. Eventually as you get more and more familiar with the new snow types, you'd eventually see that there are also jumps (though nobody to see you...) and it's really more about the whole riding experience than getting more degrees out of your jumps.
It is after all a matter of taste, but I know that I can't stand parks. Zooming in between trees with nobody in sight [note: with only your friends... don't go out of a ski resort alone], however, is pretty much as awesome as it gets to break away from your daily routine.
Backcountrying might be a bit harder to apprehend, but a good start is to go off the slopes, right next to the groomed portions, to get a feeling of the difference. In the end, it feels more refreshing as you don't just crowd around with the other snowboarders. It's much softer and I feel it's a smoother, more calming experience. Eventually as you get more and more familiar with the new snow types, you'd eventually see that there are also jumps (though nobody to see you...) and it's really more about the whole riding experience than getting more degrees out of your jumps.
It is after all a matter of taste, but I know that I can't stand parks. Zooming in between trees with nobody in sight [note: with only your friends... don't go out of a ski resort alone], however, is pretty much as awesome as it gets to break away from your daily routine.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What made you think I don't do things like that?
I just take great joy out of freestyling and learning new tricks and I was merely looking for a website that has such resources.
Doesn't seem like any of them know any websites though.
So yeah, I've pretty much mastered 180's on both sides and that's about the only thing I want to try (bar big airs) but I can pretty much land on all types of snows.
But my boards are about as freeride as they come, so yeah no fancy tricks for me.
Also, I don't have the luxury of practising whenever I want. I live in the bloody Netherlands...