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    This year in the Winter Olympics there is a sport called snowboarding, in snowboarding, there is a lot of safety rules and gear, it also involves a lot of practice. The track that they snowboard on most of the time is a halfpipe shape made of slick snow. It’s steep when you go up, but fast to go down so you can gain momentum to go up the other side and do a trick. In the event, you need to beat the other team by doing more tricks and the tricks have their level of points as well, you need more points

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    Snowboarding It was a nice day up in vermont the mountain was cold the snow was white like the clouds and just as fluffy as a persian cats white delicate fur. Then that's when it happened we got up to the mountain my father my brother and myself when we got to the mountain we were amazed. When we got to the top of the mountain we saw an amazement of colors and that's when it happened me and my father had a fight a little while earlier. When we got to the area we put on our ski and snowboarding

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    For my essay I am doing men’s snowboarding slopestyle. Snowboarding is one of my favorite things to do it is hard and challenging at first but then it gets easier. Snowboarding is a very fun sport and it is getting more popular over the years. Snowboarding slopestyle is fairly new. Women's slopestyle snowboarding came out as a sport in 2014 at the sochi winter olympics in russia. Snowboarding came out in 1965, but skiing came out first. Slopestyle snowboarding is usually a course that has many jumping

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    Snowboarding compared to wake-boarding Snowboarding and wake-boarding are two things that I love to do, and been watching and doing my whole life. They are two different things, but have a lot in common. I started taking snowboarding lessons when I was very young. Every winter our family would go to lake Tahoe to snowboard. I loved the feeling of rushing down the mountain with my board underneath me. Some things that stand out snowboarding rather than wake-boarding, is that you have to snowboard

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    When I was twelve years old my best friend’s family decided to try snowboarding and skiing for the first time, that’s when I learned my lesson. My best friend at the time was 14, he lived right down the road from my house and his family was my second family for a long time. His name was John, he invited me on the trip as well. We went to my house to ask my parents about the trip five day snowboarding trip. I asked them separately and got two different answers. My dad was all for it, he even offered

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    Snowboarding It was a nice day up in Vermont the mountain was cold the snow was white like the clouds and just as fluffy as a Persian cats white delicate fur. Then that's when it happened we got up to the mountain my father my brother and myself when we got to the mountain we were amazed. When we got to the top of the mountain we saw an amazement of colors and that's when it happened me and my father had a fight a little while earlier. When we got to the area we put on our ski and snowboarding

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    worth doing.” Throughout life you are probably going to change hobbies and try new things, but your passion is something that you enjoy doing for the rest of your life. My passion is snowboarding. It has helped me face my fears as a shy and unconfident girl. I believe that I will always be able to turn to snowboarding during anytime throughout my life. The cool winter air stung my face as I exited through the ski lodge door. Board in hand, I stepped onto the powdery snow. After each step I took all

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    slippery the board is on the snow. After a few embarrassing runs down a small hill next to the lift, I realized that I definitely needed a short lesson with an instructor to refresh my memory. Luckily, since April isn’t exactly a popular time to go snowboarding, there were plenty of instructors open for a short 1 hour lesson. There was a lot of falling involved, and I realized pretty quickly how dumb it was of me to not wear waterproof clothing. A little over an hour later, the instructor and I reached

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    evolution of snowboarding has increased greatly. It has gone from non existence in the late 1970’s, to one of the most watched action sports in a matter of thirty-five years. The upward takeoff and popularity of snowboarding relies on two people, Jake Burton and Shaun White. Jake Burton back in 1977 had the vision for what snowboarding would be, but Shaun White had what it took to manifest that vision. Evidence has shown that time brings change in sports, history has repeated itself with snowboarding, this

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    just a little nervousness. Before the night was over my son, Nathan, convinced me to switch to snowboarding. It would be a decision that I would later question and chase as I strove to master it. “Master” it—ha! What a laugh. I must have thought I was Sean White or something. I would be lucky just to make it off the ski lift without breaking my arm, and after an evening and a morning of snowboarding, my elbow and hips were so black and blue, my wife persuaded me to stop

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