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Sports & Recreation > Snowboarding Beginner's guide to snowboarding competitions

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Snowboarding competitions are a great way to meet new people, feed your competitive personality, and push your skills to the limit!

Snowboarding is one of few individual sports that has a collective feel to it. Competing riders help one another out with tricks, tips and training because it's in everyone's best interest to push the limits of such a young sport, and to help integrate it into the main stream.

Basic pointers - if you're new to halfpipe, you're going to have to yell "drop in" as loud as you can if you want a chance - there's a limited amount of space on that hill, and ever...

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