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Extreme Snowboarding:

Snowboarding by itself is a fun and safe sport, a cross between skiing and skateboarding. The feel and balance is quite different from regular skiing since navigation through the snow is achieved on only a single board, and unlike skateboarding, snowboarders let gravity do all the work of propulsion for them as they slide down the slopes.

As snowboarding caught on in popularity, it was only a matter of time before the most highly skilled practitioners decided to tackle harder slopes, with more dangerous terrain, or natural formations that allowed for stunts.

Extreme snowboarding involves extremely tough slopes set at 45 degree angles or less, making runs down these slopes extremely fast and difficult to control. Unlike gentle snowboarding slopes, extreme slopes will also usually have outcroppings of rock jutting out from the snow as part of the challenge.

This is not a sport to be tackled by amateurs.

Given the speeds at which an extreme snowboarder can go, even a casual splash on the slope can lead to broken limbs or neck from impact with the snow alone, factor in the presence of actual rock formations, this sport is one that is not undertaken lightly.

Extreme snowboarder slopes actually dont have any of the usual conveniences of a civilian ski or snowboard slope. There are no trans for uphill transport, no waystations for shelter and relaxation. It is wilderness all the way.

Like some extreme sports, snowboarding enthusiasts have even merged their styles with that of other others. some actually pack parachute gliders on their backs.Why?

These extreme sportsmen take a snowboard and do a run all the way down a slope which ends at a sheer-drop cliff, and once they fly off the cliff, trigger the chutes and hang glide all the rest of the way down the mountainside.

Adrenaline Rush or What?

There is also an area with natural half-pipe formations and rolls where freestyle exhibitions similar to that done for skateboarding can be performed.

The New Zealand slopes are more challenging for those who enjoy absolute speed runs. With one of the steepest and sharpest slopes around, navigating the New Zealand snowboarding slopes requires perfect balance and control to keep from spilling.

Given the risks of snowboarding, every professional competing extreme snowboarder is required to learn first aid specializing in cold weather injury treatment, as well as survival, search, and rescue techniques for winter and mountainous terrain.

On their runs, they are also required to bring avalanche transceivers for emergency pickups in case of an avalanche or if they go off course and get lost.

Extreme boarding is most definitely not for the weak or the faint of heart.

But for those who are up to the challenge, it offers one of the most exciting blood rushes around.

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