"Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet."
Riding a single board over snow, usually in snow resorts with prepared slopes and obstacles.
Snowboarding equipment: This includes the snowboard, boots, bindings, and other gear required for snowboarding such as helmets, goggles, gloves, and warm clothing.
Snowboarding technique: This involves learning how to turn, carve, stop, and jump on a snowboard.
Snowboarding safety: This comprises of learning how to stay safe while snowboarding, understanding the signs of avalanche, and proper avalanche safety techniques.
Snowboarding fitness: This involves preparing oneself with proper fitness regimes that aid in optimal snowboarding performance and reduce the risks of injury.
Snowboarding terrain: Understanding different terrains and types of terrain parks and how to navigate through them safely.
Snowboarding community: Engaging with people in the snowboarding community, learning about events, and forming connections with fellow snowboarders.
Snowboarding history: Understanding the rich history of snowboarding and how it has evolved over the years.
Snowboarding culture: This is learning about the culture that is built around snowboarding, including language, attitude, and lifestyle.
Snowboarding in different regions: Learning about snowboarding opportunities in different regions and understanding the unique features and requirements of each location.
Snowboarding for different skill levels: Recognizing different skill levels in snowboarding and catering to the various factors that affect riders of different skill levels.
Alpine Snowboarding: A snowboarding style that mimics the movements of skiing. The rider goes down the slope with their toes pointing towards the direction of the slope, and their heels are slightly off the board.
Freestyle Snowboarding: A style of snowboarding that focuses on performing tricks and stunts like spins, jumps, and grabs on artificial obstacles like rails, boxes, and half-pipes.
Backcountry Snowboarding: A type of snowboarding where the riders hike into remote and untouched terrain loaded with heaps of fresh powder snow. Backcountry snowboarding includes riding snow-covered hills, cliffs, and mountains.
Freeride Snowboarding: Similar to Alpine snowboarding, freeride includes big turns, speed and jumps with the carve/twist motion. However, unlike alpine snowboarding, freeride isn’t always about racing or getting down the hill as fast as possible; it’s much more about style.
Split Snowboarding: A unique and emerging style of snowboarding that utilizes a split board, which can split into two separate pieces, allowing you to ascend into steep terrain with switching back-and-forth trails.
Slopestyle Snowboarding: A snowboarding style that focuses on performing impressive tricks and stunts on a man-made park made up of multiple obstacles such as rails, pipes, and jumps.
Big Mountain Snowboarding: As the name suggests, this type of snowboarding typically takes place in a mountainous region, where riders charge huge terrain and drops, often in backcountry or untracked snow.
Boardercross: A style of snowboarding that’s a lot like motocross or BMX racing, where multiple riders race on an obstacle course that includes jumps, turns, and other obstacles.
Powder Snowboarding: Powder snowboarding is a type of freeride snowboarding in deep snow, which can be done through the trees or in more open terrain, with the focus mainly on maneuvering through deep snow instead of performing tricks.
All-Mountain Snowboarding: An all-mountain style will vary by rider, but essentially it incorporates any style of riding on all parts of the mountain in a single run.
Jibbing Snowboarding: A style of freestyle snowboarding that involves performing tricks and stunts on jibs, which are essentially narrow metal rails, boxes, or other types of obstacles.
Adaptive Snowboarding: An adaptive snowboarder has some sort of physical disability. Adaptive snowboarding includes anything from para snowboarding or snowboarding for people with disabilities, and it can be any variant of snowboarding they wish it to be.
"It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games."
"Snowboarding was developed in the United States..."
"It was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing, and skiing."
"It became popular around the world and was introduced as a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1998..."
"...featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014."
"Its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a decline since."
"Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity..."
"...standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet."
"It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games."
"It was introduced as a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1998..."
"It was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing, and skiing."
"It became popular around the world..."
"Its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007..."
"...featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014."
"It was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing, and skiing."
"It features in the Winter Olympic Games..."
"Snowboarding was developed in the United States..."
"...its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a decline since."
"It became popular around the world and was introduced as a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1998..."