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Snowboarders primarily refer to freeriding as backcountry, sidecountry, or off-piste snowboarding, and sometimes big mountain or extreme riding. Freeriding incorporates various aspects of riding into a style that adapts to the variations and challenges of natural, off-piste terrain, and eschews man-made features such as jumps, rails, half-pipes ...
Snowboarding in Valfréjus, France Snowboarder riding off of a cornice Freeride snowboarding, in areas off of the main trails. The first snowboards were developed in 1965 when Sherm Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughters by fastening two skis together and attaching a rope to one end so he would have some control as they stood on the board and glided downhill.
This project covers all content on the English Wikipedia related to the sports of Skiing and Snowboarding. Including all forms and variants of the sports. As well as mountains, resorts, events, athletes, brands, media, etc. It generally does not cover articles of towns where skiing/snowboarding is a major influence.
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A carved turn is a skiing and snowboarding term for the technique of turning by shifting the ski or snowboard onto its edges. When edged, the sidecut geometry causes the ski (in the following, snowboard is implicit and not mentioned) to bend into an arc, and the ski naturally follows this arc shape to produce a turning motion.
First Descent is a 2005 documentary film about snowboarding and its beginning in the 1980s.. The snowboarders featured in this movie (Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen, Hannah Teter and Shaun White with guest appearances from Travis Rice) represent three generations of snowboarders and the progress this young sport has made over the past two decades.
The Art of Flight was shot over the course of two years from 2009 to 2011.. It was filmed using the RED camera system, the GoPro Hero, Vision Research's Phantom Gold high speed camera, Panasonic Varicam HPX3700, Arri 235 (4 perf 35mm), Cineflex HD (Sony HDC-1500) and Nikon and Canon SLRs for time lapses.
Tommy Moe's Winter Extreme: Skiing & Snowboarding, [a] known in Europe as Val d'Isère Championship, is a winter sports video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that uses skiing and snowboarding as extreme sports in freestyle mode, training mode, or competition mode.