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![]() Focusing on one of the most rapidly growing sports in this country, The Illustrated Guide to Snowboarding is geared toward anyone seriously interested in learning to ride and enjoy a snowboard. |
![]() Attention skiers: have you looked down from the chair lift with envy at the ever-growing legion of snowboarders sailing down the slopes and hooting gleefully to each other? Does surfing on snow look pretty fun? You bet! The Complete Snowboarder can introduce you (as well as non-skiers) to their world. With tips from the pros, you can be surfing down the mountain, too. Or, if you're already an experienced snowboarder, this guide can take you to the next level. Beginners and intermediates alike will learn new tricks and techniques for getting the most out of a lift ticket. |
That's Snowboarder to you and me. So begins The Snowboarder's Total Guide to Life. Part anthropological study and part field guide, it gives the inside look at the mating rituals, migratory patterns, and grooming habits of nature's most recently evolved creature: the North American Snowboarder. Bill Kerig, a self-confessed member of the species (and a snowboarding addict), lets us in on the Snowboard Creation Myth, explicates the Freudian significance of the stick, and gives us the skinny on how to... perform the essential Cool Daddy Handshakewalk the walk talk the talk achieve the look and, most important, how to be phat |
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![]() Choose the snowboard perfect for your needs. Distinguish board types and purposes. Tune up for performance. Add accessories that will increase stimulation. Maneuver on beginner slopes and gradually increase your skill level. Glide across bumps and powder with greater confidence. Discover the difference between backcountry, resort recreation and competitive snowboarding. Understand the ethics and safety requirements important to the sport. Catch big air and slalom moguls in weeks. |
![]() "Snowboarding," writes Susanna Howe, "has burst into our lives and become a vessel of meaning." Hyperbole? Sure, but as sports go, snowboarding is hyperbole. Showy, daring, dramatic, and hip, it's pure hot-dog; Sick covers all of it. Mixing healthy doses of snowboarding's colorful history, fashions, techniques, competitions, and competitors, Sick whizzes by fast and rebellious--like the sport itself. |