Snowboarding Skills: The Back-To-Basics Essentials for All Levels
by Cindy Kleh
from Firefly Books
This best-selling guide is ideal for those starting out as well as the more experienced boarders looking to fix a persistent problem or just improve their skills. Along with dozens of color photographs, Snowboarding Skills features:
- Pro tips from the world's top boarders
- Action photo sequences with explanatory diagrams
- Directional arrows showing exactly how and where to turn
- "Don't" and "do" photo comparisons
- Troubleshooting sidebars
- Lessons to improve skills
- Explanations on understanding snow and weather conditions
- Safety tips and equipment maintenance
- Hill etiquette, avoiding injury, and more.
From the basics of standing up and stopping to the challenges of pivoting and jumping, Snowboarding Skills covers everything a boarder needs to know.
The Art of Snowboarding
by Jim Smith
from International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
"The premier guide to modern riding, from one of the sport’s best coaches."
--Tim Windell, two-time World Cup co-champion
In The Art of Snowboarding, USSA-certified club coach Jim Smith introduces you to the most popular tricks and stunts, including kickers (jumps) and other freestyle and half-pipe techniques, and stunts on rails and wood. He gives special emphasis to proper stance and turning techniques as the basis for more advanced moves. Time-lapse photographs demonstrate every step of every trick and technique, and dozens of additional photos show you the form of some of the country’s best riders.
Fit to Ski & Snowboard
by Rocky Snyder
from International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Hit the slopes with greater strength, balance, and endurance than ever before
Whether you're a weekend warrior or an advanced athlete, Fit to Ski and Snowboard helps you create the ideal conditioning program for your body and your needs. You can do these personalized workouts at the gym or at home, tracking your progress with the workout log and muscle chart. You'll be amazed how much you can:
- Improve your balance with wobble board and stability ball exercises
- Strengthen and protect your back using core training techniques
- Gain quicker reactions through plyometrics
- Increase your flexibility with sun salutations and stretches
With this all-in-one fitness handbook, you're sure to be in peak condition next time you challenge the peaks.
". . . packed with exercises that let athletes tap their maximum potential before the snow flies."
--R. Mark Elling, author of The All-Mountain Skier
"Rocky's training tactics will help you improve fast!"
--Jeff Bennett, coauthor of The Complete Snowboarder
Snowboarding (High Interest Books: X-Treme Outdoors)
by Gillian Brown
from Children's Press (CT)
Colorful, fun photographs show extremists in action as readers take an exhilarating look at the basics of various x-treme sports - equipment needed, celebrities of the sport, and how the sport achieved its popularity.
The Illustrated Guide To Snowboarding
by Kevin Ryan
from McGraw-Hill
"As a PSIA examiner I have worked with Kevin on and off the snow for several years. His creativity and knowledge of what works comes through clearly in The Illustrated Guide to Snowboarding. I'd recommend it as a reference to the professional instructor, as well as a how-to for the avid snowboarder and those who wish to be." -- J. Randy Price Member of the PSIA-AASI national demonstration team "As a professional athlete and instructor, working with Kevin and reading his book helped my riding immensely. One of Kevin's principles is straightforward and perfectly applicable for snowboarding, climbing or just about any sport--your mind leads and your body follows. It works!" -- Robyn Ebersfield 4-time World Cup rock climbing champion "Never in my thirty-three years of pioneering, shaping and defining the sport of snowboarding was there ever access to material explaining the technical aspects of riding in such an easy to understand manner. . . . This 'encyclopedia' of snowboarding how-to belongs on the shelf of every ski area, snowboard park and bookstore in the snowbelt." -- Paul Graves
Where to Ski and Snowboard 2008
by Chris (ed) Gill
from NortonWood Publishing
The Snowboard Book: A Guide for All Boarders
by Lowell Hart
from W. W. Norton & Company
Go Snowboard: Read It, Watch It, Do It (GO SERIES)
by Neil McNab
from DK ADULT
For everyone ready to take on a new sport, to engage in competition, and to carve out a new physique, the Go Series is a coach, rulebook, and starter kit-all rolled up into one fast-paced an innovative package. These step-by-step book-and-DVD packages give readers all the knowledge, instruction, advice, and encouragement they need to get up and go!
Snowboarder's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Snowboarding (Start-Up Sports)
by Doug Werner
from Tracks Publishing
The Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2007 (Cadogan Guide)
by Felice Hardy
from Cadogan Guides
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