snowboards
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Top Tips For The First Time Snowboarder
As with all types of sports, including adventure sports, snowboarding is all about progression. Too many misinterpret this as a focus on skills and start snowboarding only to end up doing endless laps, getting hurt and/or frustrated. Ever since Jake Burton started making his eponymous snowboards back in 1977, it was in his best interest…
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You Don’t Need A Hill When There’s A Jet Engine Strapped To Your Snowboard
Video: Adding to the near-infinite list of things you saw on the internet that you really shouldn’t try at home, YouTube’s The Hacksmith strapped a couple of jet turbine engines to the back of a snowboard and hit his Canadian snow-covered streets, because when you have a jet-powered snowboard you don’t need a mountain.
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Making Snowboards By Hand Is A Beautiful Process
Video: Here’s a video that shows the full custom build process for Kindred Snowboards. They plan the design, get the wood, glue parts together, shave it down, add materials, press it together, clean up the edges and do so many things to one board that it may sound boring when you read it but is…
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A Snowboard With Headlights Keeps You On The Slopes All Night Long
There are very few sports you can’t play at night, thanks to the magic of gigantic stadium floodlights. But if your hunt for fresh powder leads you to the dark side of the mountain after the sun has set, careening down the slopes blind is a terrible idea. So the ever-innovative folks at Signal Snowboards…