Customer Reviews

The Complete Snowboarder

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This book is decent, but the Illustrated Guide to Snowboarding is a much more in-depth and well written book. It is also more entertaining with funny drawings and tips. This book really only skims the surface on all the areas you need to start snowboarding.

Great introduction to snowboarding. Provides all the language and techniques, from beginner to expert. It works best to reread it again after a few times out as you will pick up on many of the tips and techniques once you learn how the basic moves feel. I kept my copy in the car and reread some sections over lunch on my first day. Especially important to read the section on getting off of the chair lift. This has saved me from many falls, while I have watched others flounder and get injured for not following the advice. Still need to take a lesson first time out, but it will all make sense alot sooner.

This book is great for begginers and also explains advanced tricks and techniques like methods, spins, cliff drops, carving and explains a little about racing and competative snowboarding. It also gives you usefull info like what to eat before you go, warm-ups, getting on and off chairlifts, ect.

I really liked the book The Complete Snowboarder. It is full of a lot of useful information on how to get started snowboarding. It explains not only the basics but also how to do tricks. I would recommend this book to anyone who has even the slightest interest in snowboarding because once they read it they won't be able to wait for the snow to fall.

I really got alot out of this book, if you want to save yourself a beating on the run's this is for you!

This is a pretty comprehensive book covering everything from equipment to wax to turns. It would be nice to have a easier method of learning how to turn, but the way presented here for turns is pretty complicated. Snowboarding is not too complicated so I do not understand why this book is so long.

I've returned that book, didn't like it. For beginners I recommend "GO SNOWBOARD" - better, simpler,cheaper,latest issue,instructional DVD included.