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Snowboarding today snowboarding has been a famous sport for the speed the risk the tricks and the stile. Many athletes have been none for doing well in this sport which encourages more people to do it. But most of all this sport has many characteristics of its own. And it will be here for a long time.

Snowboarding first started at a skate boarding championship in1960. It was in the winter when a young teenage boy called Tom Sims was about to go down an icy half pipe and his coach told him not to go but the ice didn't stop him. Tom took off his wheels and every thing that held the wheels on and went for it. Then he got the championship 1st place medal. Later he made the snowboard and thats how snow boarding was born. Snowboarding is and always will be a dangerous sport so athletes wear special protection gear to protect them. First, they have a special board that bends in a way so that they can turn and yet stay on.Its wide and made to do tricks. There helmets are plastic and has a foam interior for protection. There goggles are made to keep the snow out of there eyes and the protected them if they take a fall and smack there eye. Also, snowboarding takes practice, lots of it, so athletes practice at snowy locations like Colorado (in the mountains.) And places that people don't normally go so they won't be disturbed. Athletes spend most of there days training practicing and working out so there ready for the big day.even in the summer athletes go and train like in Alaska and other places that have snow year around. evrey year snowboarding coaches teach athletes new and improved techniques because if there not conferrable with the way there suppose to snowboard then they have to learn new ways to do all the tricks in the air and on ground.

Sincethe1980's snowboarding has been very popular but only became became an olimpics sport in the winter of 1990. And even today many people are found interested in the sport and want to be none for doing that winter sport. Snowboarding is a famous sport still today and will be for a long time.

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