Rails are basically any skinny long surface to slide across on a snowboard. The most common is the hand rail. A handrail on a mountain can be shaped many ways with multiple kinks in them too. A “board park,” which is the home to these rails has multiple styles such as a rainbow shaped rail, a basic step handrail, straight low rails, and they range in ability levels to multiple step rails with kinks that level out, and even rainbows that fluctuate as much as a roller coaster. Sliding down railings in school was always dangerous. Well imagine the dangers involved in standing up and going down that rail.

There are many ways to go about grinding a rail. The most common is a 50/50 grind. That is executed with the board parallel to the rail.

Injuries alone could steer anyone clear of trying this sport. On any given day ski patrol first aid stations at mountains will have a constant stream of people occupying them because Extreme sports have extreme injuries. Any piece of snowboarding equipment, from goggles to boots and boards have injury warnings on their boxes or labels. Orange and white labels that start out with the word “warning,” stress the dangers in this sport along with the risk of death. Any jump or aerial movement in snowboarding could easily result in a broken foot, ankle, leg, arm, or wrist. A rough landing is always hard on the wrists as well. The neck and the head are very vulnerable while snowboarding. It is even recommended by any mountain or resort to wear a helmet while riding because Heads have a tendency to gravitate towards the snow upon impact, and a concussion isn’t a pleasant thought to most people.

The elements endured in the sport of snowboarding are those of an Eskimos lifestyle. Freezing temperatures bite at the face while the wind mixes with rain and causes sleet and hail. Fog covers trails like an infestation of smoke. Nothing to see on any side of the trail but ghosts amongst the fog and Nothing to see but five feet in front of you in the most extreme conditions. Does any normal person enjoy this type of climate? Or are those that do simply extremists in the sport. Each with a stick of Chap Stick in their pocket to protect delicate lips in the harshness of the weather.

Surfers were first heard of in 1777 around Oahu and Tahiti. They would have 183 years to perfect moves that would be put on wheels in the early 1960s. Surfing has always been an e

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