Can anything be more exciting than a race down an icy slope on a snowboard, dodging trees, negotiating curves, and making 25-foot jumps into the air, all the while keeping an eye on the edge of the cliff not more than 15 feet away to your left? It's a death-defying joyride: that's what snowboarding is and what it's all about.

Snowboarding Trivia

Snowboard shops don't grow on trees. It would been nice if they did. Trees are universal—they're everywhere except in the desert and underwater. However, snowboard shops, unfortunately, aren't as widely spread out across the globe. Most snowboard shops have set[...]

The snowboard is all you need to be able to, well, snowboard. The rest is just safety gear designed to look essential. The sunglasses are to fend off the sun's glare. The jacket is for the cold. The helmet is to keep the head safe from a fall or bad landing, [...]

There was a time when people slung their snowboards around on their backs, or else carried them between their arm and side. It may look like it, but it's not an easy task. Snowboards are quite heavy and the lack of a handle makes them all the more difficult to lug ar[...]

What's a snowboard binding? Snowboarding isn't like surfing or skateboarding where you just step on the board and fire away. Snowboarding is more like skiing or ice skating: you need something to bind your shoes to the board unless you want to find you and your snowb[...]

Snowboarding is no fun without its gear and accessories—the phat snowboard, the cool bonnet, the glare-resistant goggles, the windbreaker, the shoes.

Snowboard gear is any individual tool or accessory that can be attached to the snowboard or that is use[...]

A person who snowboards and doesn't wear a helmet ought to have someone tell him or her to go find another hobby. Snowboarding is not for the faint of heart. It's not like golf - this sport is about taking it to the extreme. You need guts. You need balls. You need to[...]

If anything, snowboarding is about style. It's about smiling at well below freezing temperatures and laying your life down on the line and coming out of it looking cool and not in the least cold. Tricks aren't the only sources of style in snowboarding—it's in w[...]

Nothing could be farther away from the truth in saying that snowboarding is a cheap sport. It's not, and it never will be. The outlandish location is first and foremost the main reason why snowboarding has to be expensive. You can't just snowboard anywhere, unlike ba[...]

Snowboarding is such a pain in the ass. No, really, it's literally a pain in the ass.

For a sport played on snow, snowboarding involves a lot of falling and getting tripped over. Beginners are likely to fall over more often than seasoned experts, but with les[...]

Snowboarding takes a lot of time and practice if you're going to do a good job with it. You don't just get on a snowboard and proclaim yourself the snowboarding sensei of the world. In snowboarding, the ability to do complex tricks is what separates the amateur from [...]