Easy Snowboarding Tips For First Timers

So you’ve bought all the snowboarding equipment and you are now ready to go off up the mountain slope on your first snowboarding excursion. But wait – how about taking 3 easy snowboarding tips for first timers with you!

1. Skating

The first snowboarding tip for first timers is to learn to skate. Now, you’re most probably wondering what skating has to do with snowboarding. The answer: skating is the term affectionately given to the manoeuvre that takes you through the flat area and gets you to the ski-lift or chairlift. So, if you don’t know how to skate – you won’t have a chance to snowboard!

Actually, the first tip for snowboarding first timers is not too difficult - all you have to do is push yourself along using your back foot while your front foot is in the binding. Remember to make sure you keep the snow off your board though!

2. Falling leaf pattern

The falling leaf pattern is the second snowboarding tip for first timers. Staying on your heel-side, you slowly slide back and forth across the slope in the manner of a falling leaf – where the move gets its name from! Once you have mastered the heel-side move, you swap over and do exactly the same on the toe-side. Having mastered the second snowboarding tip for first timers, you’ll be happy to learn that the time for snowboarding first timers tips has nearly come to an end!

3. The J-Turn

The last of the tips for snowboarding first timers uses the same technique as the falling leaf pattern, and is known as the J-Turn move. With the J-Turn move, what you do is you go directly down the slope before you turn and come to a stop – a ‘J’-Turn!

Once you have the

• skating
  
• falling leaf, and
  
• J-Turn

moves mastered, you’re ready to start your career as a snowboarder – so go off and have some fun practising the snowboarding tips for a first timer!

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