Snowboard joy
Though we have uncommon warm autumn my younger daughter and her friends are preparing for winter joy. Here is her article what they are going to do.
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by Sveta Orlova
Summer is gone autumn is also to its end and winter must be welcomed. Our bikes are now on rest till spring, till warm and dry weather. But it is boring to spend all your time in office and at home on the sofa watching TV and getting fat. We don’t want to lose good form and getting lazy. Our winter choice is SNOWBOARD.
This amazing sport maintaining your active way of life is popular not only among young people. Believe me it is interesting and suitable for all ages. Snowboarding for pleasure claims no special training from you except your desire to get started. If you would do the first step wonderful and exciting world of snowboard will become part of your life forever (proved on my own experience!)
Weekends we are going out from town for slopes. Some of them are not far only 20 min on bus. Some are considerably further, 2 hours on local train. When we have no much time we go for closer slopes but further ones are better and having enough time we choose them. We take with us rucksack with food, snowboard outfit, clothes. Burden is heavy enough and it isn’t easy to carry. When we get to place we are already sweated and a bit tired. But it means nothing cause the joy is at hand.
Poor students not always have money for a lift and sometimes we need to use our own legs to up the slope. And believe me it is hard thing with all stuff on you. But nothing can stop us cause desire to ride snowboard is much stronger. You feel you can’t live without it. And a long waited moment comes. We are riding till legs hold us. Then we have a break to get a snack. What a happy feeling to get hot tea with some food on the top of the slope with all your muscles relaxed and after that down the slope again and again.
There are several styles: FreeRiding, FreeStyle, Freecarve (slalom), Jibbing (when you ride all ways except snow) and others.
I like all but most of them FreeSstyle. This style includes all tricks in the air and on slope. FreeStyle means crazy quantity of adrenalin. It is wild, extreme and spectacular snowboard riding that needs all your skills, calisthenics, physical strength, wearisome training and of course fearlessness.
All who didn’t still try snowboard must do it in any case this season.
Keep your good form! Keep active way of life!
Salut,
Sveta
