Snowboarding Safety Tips

Video Transcript

"Alright, another thing I'm going to teach you about is safety. If you've never been out here before you've got to know your surroundings. Know what's around you. There's lots of people that don't know what they're doing. There's lots of people that do know what they're doing to, but you've just got to be aware of what's around you. Know your personal limits. Knowing what you can and can't do is a big thing. Because, you don't want to just run into the half pipe and like think you know what you're doing and get hurt. Because, if you can just make it to the top of the hill and make it down and do some carves and learn slow you'll come up and you'll come back at it so good, because you'll just learn as you go instead of jumping into things and rushing into things and getting hurt. So, if you just take it slow and learn as you go you'll improve a lot. Before you strap in you want to note that there's traffic throughout the hill. Everywhere you go and everywhere you look there's tons of people. So, you want to find a clear comfortable spot to put your binding on to where you can stand up, feel comfortable being strapped into your snowboard. Once you've got that then you could stand around, stand on your snowboard, push around on one foot for a minute, because you've only got one foot in as you go up the chair. You don't have two in when you go up the chair. You only go up the chair lift with one foot strapped in. So, once you strap in your binding just find that comfortable spot, walk around or push around a little bit, get the feel of having a snowboard attached to your feet and you'll be on your way up the chair in no time."