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Winter Adventure sports are an extremely popular choice for adrenalin junkies, particularly skiing and snowboarding. Winter adventure sports combine the fun and skill of other sports with the excitement and beauty of the snow. Snowboarding is a winter sport that is known for its adventure. Snowboarding gives riders a great thrill and is excellent for your fitness and health. Certainly a more exciting sport than cycling or golf!

Snowboarding gives your body an all over workout and is particularly good for your cardiovascular system, leading to strengthened heart muscle. Snowboarding works out many different groups of muscles building your body strength and leaving you toned all over. These include abdominal muscles, for firm abs, calf muscles and your hamstrings. Snowboarding is great for weight control burning between 250 and 650 calories an hour when boarding for fun. At competition level you could burn a massive 1250 calories an hour.

Snowboarding is also a great way to help your kids lose weight!

In order to make sure you get the best out of snowboarding you sure ensure you have warmed up before hitting the slopes. Make sure you stretch your muscles to minimise the chance of injury. If you are a beginner you should make sure an experienced instructor teaches you the basics on a bunny slope, however there are some general hints and tips you should follow.

Firstly, make sure you bend your knees, although this seems obvious many people fail to do so and consequently have less control of the board. You should aim to keep your body relaxed so it can easily absorb the impact of any bumps you may encounter. It is also very important to know how to stop, if you are facing downhill make sure you quickly apply pressure by digging your heels into the board. If you are facing uphill quickly apply pressure by digging your toes into the board.

Once you are a bit more experienced you may want to experiment by trying some snowboarding tricks. There are many to choose from, a great intermediate trick is a 360. This involves a 360 turn in the air and is visually very impressive. It is important you are comfortable with ollies before attempting this trick.

You should also be confident at 180 turns. First you should find a spot your feel comfortable with. When you come up to the jump, crouch right down and make sure your knees are bent. Then twist your body and get ready to jump. When you do hit the jump, unwind your body whilst keeping your knees bent in the air, spin the last 180 degrees.

It is important to make sure you land with your knees bent and also try to make sure you are landing on both feet. This tricks is bound to make you look impressive on the slopes. It is also important to make sure you have the right gear, to look the part and feel confident on the slopes.