Terrain Parks, Slopes, Half Pipes

A terrain park is pretty much just a skate park except for snowboarders. There are rails, jumps, boxes, and a bunch of other crazy things to go on. You can do a lot of different grinds on a rail but the easiest ones are turning your board 90 degrees so your grinding like you would on a skateboard. You can also just go straight on it just how you would on the snow. Jumps in a terrain park could be big or little, most places usually have some medium jumps and then they might have some huge ones. You can do a lot on a jump you could do pretty much anything you want to but they all take practice. Boxes are pretty much just like a rail because you just grind them but they are easier to sty on because they are usually bigger and might not be slippery. To go on a box you have to stay like you would on the ground because it's wood and if you did you would fall down. Some other things in there might be a park bench and rails and boxes that are longer and shaped differently. If you don't want to do any tricks or anything you can just go down slopes. For the slopes there are different difficulties for each hill, green circle stands for easy or beginner, blue square stands for intermediate, and then a black diamond is hard, and then double and triple are expert. The easier slopes aren't as steep and they usually take longer to get to the bottom. The harder slopes get steeper and steeper and they usually don't last as long because you're going faster. When going down harder slopes you don't want to go full speed because you will lose control and it will be easy to fall down because you have so much momentum. It will also hurt a lot more if you do fall. Something you can do as I explained in my first blog was carving which is moving your board back in forth to slow yourself down. You can also turn your board sideways to stop or slow down. In a half pipe you go into it and go up and you out of it and do tricks. They have half pipe tournaments where people do tricks and they get points for each run and whoever gets the most points wins. In a half pipe it is important to get a lot of air because then you'll have more time to do better tricks and you might not fall as much because you won't be messing up tricks. Half pipes are different because you don't land the same way because in a regular jump you go forward and in a half pipe you go up and then down so you will have to get used to landing differently.