by Natalie Allport

Created on: April 16, 2008   Last Updated: January 26, 2011

Snowboarding tricks

There are many advanced snowboarding tricks. Tricks are constantly being improved, tweaked and more are emerging. But what will happen with them? Snowboarding is almost at he level where there is no more growth. People are spinning 1080's all the time. Jumps aren't big enough for more than that and if the jumps are made bigger then more and more people are going to be severely injured or even dead from snowboarding. Now don't get me wrong I love snowboarding and I love tricks! But there is a peak in every sport where only style can improve. I think that this is where snowboarding is at. Eventually everyone will have the skills to be a pro, companies will spend all their money on sponsorships on riders and ill lose money. Snowboarding might just die. Ye most kids are snowboarders but they will improve and when they get as good as their favorite pro yet they still aren't getting hooked up (sponsored) they might switch to skiing which still has some freestyle growth left.

Snowboarding is growing at a very high rate. around 75% of teens and children are snowboarders! Also, snowboarding is growing at an extremely high pace and supposively by 2009 snowboarding will have overthrown skiing entirely. This is especially true in Canada as the average age is increasing and most of the "older" people ski. n a decade or so the younger people will take over and most are snowboarders!
Personally, I feel that there is little room for tricks to improve. Noone will land any spin over 2000 without having broken every bone in their body trying it. Before snowboaing gets too insane I am suspecting ski hills to intervene. Now les compare snowboaring to skiing. Skiing has lasted a VERY long time. It should be in our history books! The is one thing; the world hs progressed into people who are not as cautious. Back in the day people would never think of going off jumps on their skis! If they did they were probably part of a gang that is in trouble with the police. Now that was a very long time ago. Now a' days people go off 60 foot gaps all the time. Since the world is getting crzier this has made everyone go into the freestyle section of sports. With racing you can ALWAYS get faster. But with freestyle there is a peak. And that is what freestyle snowboarding is getting at.

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