Snowboard lessons at Escuela Xtreme

Escuela Xtreme ski lesson products are designed to offer more quality and to fully satisfy our clients and his/hers needs. that is the reason the minimum lesson unit is two hours and a half.

We sell snowboard lessons products which are considered as first class quality products. Therefore the minimum lesson unit of snowboard classes is two hours and a half.

We encourage our guests to take products that guarantee the success of the ski lesson. In fact, in our ski lessons price list the comparatively less expensive lesson units are the half or whole day lessons products.

Exclusive private snowboard lessons

We know that snowboarding it is an activity which take place in an environment which at times may get unusual to what we are used to.

The exclusive private snowboard lessons tend to hold and support the student in order to make easier the learning process obtaining excellent results. Escuela XTREME has a team of instructors which break out of the normal snowboard instructors' stereotype.

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Snowboarding is a relatively new mountain sport and it is still developing and quickly growing in number of fans. Escuela Xtreme has a first class professional instructors team. Here we would like to share with you some of the snowboarding secrets inviting you and luring you to become one of the snowboard's fans.

Snowboard beginnings

In 1965 the american engineer Sherman Poppen invented the Snurfer. It was a simple wooden board, much smaller than the regular today's snow boards, had no foot straps or bindings and had a string at the nose which helped to stay stable on the board. The first Snurfer race took place in 1968 in Michigan and it was a straight downhill descent.

Tom Sims and Jake Burton started designing boards, each one then started its own company. A great contribution to the designing process was made by Jeff Grell who added the first foot binding straps attached to the snowboard, which made Jake Burton in 1978 to become the first man to use a snowboard (Burton) with foot binding straps on a contest.

Simultaneously in Europe, following the american foot steps in snowboard design, they start developing the fixed binding for hard boot type (invented by the swiss Fernandes).

In 1987 took place the first official world championship in Breckenridge (USA) and in Saint-Moritz (Switzerland). In the mid 80s and beginning of the 90s reach the world great public, several trademarks and designs, using new materials and last generation components, snowboarding reaches maturity as a professional sport, starting to boom the snowboard in such a way that in Nagano (Japan) Olympic games in 1998 the snowboard gets the Olympic sport category.

So next time you get on a snowboard, think that although it is a relatively young sports there are many factories, sportsmen, designers and pioneers that had contributed to the snowboard development without forgetting the 'cousin' sports which also influenced it, such as surfing, skating and skiing.

How to choose the right gear?

nowadays the snowboards are very technical products which vary hugely in design and building. At such amount of options of developers and models, choosing the right snowboard may get a complicated task.

Some of the facts you should consider when choosing your snowboard:
* where are you going to snowboard
* your snowboarding level
* your fitness characteristics
* the snow conditions
* the type of descent you are going to do

So the best option is to have two or three snowboards from which you may choose according to the occasion. You must take into consideration that there is different type of construction parameters for a snowboard which directly influence the functionality, flotation and moveably such as the: shape, length, side cut, nose and tail, slide, flexibility.

Repairing and maintaining your snowboard:

It is important to have your snowboard in good conditions and repair. It is normal that the snowboard gets deteriorated and the waxed coating reduces its thickness which improves the sliding, so what you need is to repair and wax it. We recommended that you take it to a specialized lab such as our specialized ski and board repair lab, they are the professionals in such a task.

Though if you are willing to repair it on your own you would need some special tools such as an iron. a waxing iron is the best. Brushes, steel trowel and currycomb, a fixing handle, emery paper, grasper and a shaped grinder. Polyethylene (P-tex), wax cleaner and wax. there are different type of waxes depending on the snow type and which use of the board you want. Grindstone. The repairing process is divided into three steps:
* Repairing the base;
* waxing;
* Grinding the edges.

Snowboard dictionary:

Angle of the bindings: makes reference to the degree the bindings are fixed to the board.
Anti sliding: it is a board accessory which helps to stay on board when you loose the binding.
Backside: to face with your back the slope.
Curbing: to hit the boards edges to the snow to make a turn controlling the inclination.
Carving 360: turn 360 degrees which leaves a circular mark on the snow.
Coping: the edge of a half pipe.
Deck: platform where you can watch the snowboard acrobatic
performances.
Drape: light print you leave on the snow when making a turn .
"Falling Leaf" sliding: controlling the stir of your snowboard with your feet moving back and for fe like a falling leaf.
Double Grab: in a same jump to grab both edges of the board.
Extension: vertical movement, stretching the knees, ankles and heaps to free the boards weight.
Fakie: slide with the nose forward instead with the tail. If you are regular at fakie you are goofy. one of the most important freestyle tricks.
Flat: the flat part of the half pipe, the floor of the half pipe
Frontside: to face the slope.
Halfpipe: originally taken from skating but adapted to the snow, consist of two parallel walls of same height and rounded where the free stylers slide using the curve of the wall to make the turns.
Highback: moving, lever part of the foot binding where you adjust your ankle.
Jet Turning: using the tail of the snow board to make strong turns. You must step strong on the tail and nose of the snowboard simultaneous.
Ollie: turn in the air where you use the legs to press the nose towards the tail and upwards in one single soft move. It is a movement which you make the board to detach from the floor by levering the nose and pressing the tail and then lifting the back foot. With the ollie you can jump over stones on the slope or objects and it is a must when jumping in the pipe.
Park: area specially designed for snowboarding full of jumps, slopes, curls and other objects some natural but mostly artificial.
Open courts: big smooth sections of the mountain where you can do wide turns.
Pivot: to turn on the snow board
Hardpack: solid, frozen snow. Usually due to sudden temperature changes.
Powder: snowfall with small snow flakes that have not joint in a mass yet.
Poise: The way you stand on the snow board. The way you stand and you distribute your weight on the board.
Pressure: when you start to make the turns your speed will increase if you press on the board.
Regular: to snowboard with the left feet ahead of the right.
Revert: change to go ahead from a fakie, or the other way around. You can do it with a little ollie or by lifting half of the snow board and making a turn with the other part which is on the snow.
Rocker: part of the tail of the snowboard which determines the real edge of the board.
Rotations: any turn in the air .the real turn in the pipe is 360 degrees or even more.
Sad Plant: any kind of move when you touch the ground with your hand on the coping of the pipe when the forward leg stretches to give more style to the move.
Tail Grab Air: when you grab the tail of the snowboard.
Tail Slide: when you slide on the snow or different objects on the snow on the tail.
Transition: curved section on the floor and the walls of the snow court.
Waist: slimmer part of the snowboard, it could be the central part of the board or a little more on the back end of the board.
180: a turn of 180 degrees on the snow is simply just a sliding of 180 degrees to control the board when stopping.
360: two turns of 180 degrees

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