Snowboarding Tips: Get to Know the Mountain

Series Summary

Snowboarding is an extreme sport with similarities to both surfing and skateboarding, though generally snowboarding is much faster. Snowboarding requires snowboard lessons, practice, and thick skin, as falling is inevitable. Learning how to snowboard can be difficult, but it is much easier to learn with lessons from an experienced snowboarder. Learn how to snowboard with the snowboarding tips in this free video series featuring snowboarder Melissa Evans. Evans teaches snowboarding safety tips, how to determine whether you are goofy foot or regular foot, how to strap into snowboard bindings, how to straight-line on a snowboard, how to do a falling leaf on a snowboard, how to do a J-Turn on a snowboard, how to carve on a snowboard and how to balance on a snowboard.

Video Transcript

"Now that you've got your gear and ready to snowboard you need to have a good time out here and get from point a to point b on your snowboard, which I'm going to be explaining to you. You need to learn a little bit about the bindings and the chair lift; just all around getting up and down the mountain and having a good time with it. Before I teach you how to strap in your bindings you definitely need to take a look at the mountain and know what's around you. Know what you need to stay clear of. Know where the jumps are, the rails are. Where there's a lot of traffic flow. Maybe if you're not so confident in hitting the jumps and hitting the stuff you can go off to the side and take a nice run off the side of the mountain. Instead of running into people and getting involved in everyone around you. Just take a smooth run by yourself and get to know the feel of the mountain."