Snowboard season started – New Board On the Way!
Two days I went for the first ride of the season. I wanted to buy a new board, although my current one is acceptable (I guess) since 2008. I always wanted the Burton 2008/09 Custom ICS model but since I found none in Blue-tomato’s online store the last season, I’ve lost every hope of getting that specific design.
However, I’ve found a 1.56 cm Burton Custom at Amazom.co.uk on-line store! I didn’t think of it twice and on Saturday, before going to mountain Falakro I ordered the board + bindings. I’ll post some pictures as soon as I get them! I can’t wait to ride a new board… I’m riding my old Oxygen board since 2002. Although I own the board 7 years or so, I started getting seriously interested in snowboarding after 2007 trip to Grindelwald.
Last year I start working at some simple “jibbing” exercises. The thing is that, at my level, I can easily get up and down on every single snow-track I’ve been. However it’s not funny, not even close getting up and down. Maybe for people in Austria/Italy/Swiss it’s fine… With these huge tracks all over their (amazing) Alpine mountains, but it’s not like that where I live.
So, when you own a snowboard and not a boring pair of Ski’s, first thing you can go out of the track for some powder. But again there’s nothing that hits my adrenaline so high as a couple of twists, turns and jumps!
This years first ride went really great. It seems that last season was not so far and I hold up to my improvements. When you start trying ground tricks with the snowboard, you realise after a while that your stability on the board along with the ability to absorb small shakes increases exponentially.
However, as with all things, if you want to do them correctly, there’s the “right way” order to learn things. So when you feel really comfortable with your front foot and your rear foot, and you’re able to stop in every way and go up and down to a black-level track, you are ready to try shifting feet. You don’t have to change your stance, you just have to learn how to ride with your “behind” foot in front. It’s almost a need, in order to do ground correctly. It helps enormously because when you do a trick you can’t always tell if you’re gonna need to ground the board with your “correct” foot in front or behind… It’s the most common problem most snowboarders that try jumps or small 180′s face.
I can’t wait for next weekend to ride on the snow again. Thank God we have two mountains near by, so I may go to Bansko for the weekend… Bigger mountain more interesting tracks and (probably) better snow. If it’s not possible, I’ll stick to Falakro.
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