16 Summary and Check Your Knowledge
Key Takeaways
- Proper body position in snowboarding requires an understanding of stance, balance, and weight distribution.
- Basic skills a skier should first achieve includes getting in and out of the snowboarding, moving around by skating and gliding, control and stopping, and getting up from the ground.
- A snowboarder can then transition to practicing skills on smaller slopes first using the magic carpet and then riding the chair lift.
- On intermediate terrain a snowboarder can improve skills related to traversing and turning with the goal to be mastering linked turns.
- As a snowboarders progresses in skill level it is important to practice varying the shape of your turns to control speed and adjust to different terrain.
- Riding switch is an additional skill that can help increase confidence and board control.
