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My 12 year old, who has come skiing with us since she was 3, wants to start snowboarding. Im going to get her few dry slope lessons, then hopefully a couple of lessons at the Chill Factore before having lessons in resort.
I know wrist injuries are quite common for snowboarders and my niece went and broke hers 5 minutes into her first snowboarding holiday (she had taken lessons at Chill Factore).
Do many people wear the protectors? Are they practical?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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beat me to it...
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Shimmy Alcott, not sure of logistics but is there any chance you could take her to a fridge rather than a dry slope? Learning to snowboard involves lots of heavy falls at the beginning and snow/slush would be more forgiving I would have thought that the dendex-carpet mash up.
DEFO wrist guards - you'll probably need bigger gloves than she has now to accomodate them - mittens might be a good idea if she is on the dry slope to stop and fingers getting pulled etc.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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ansta1, cheers 
Nadenoodlee, I found the dry slope good to start on as its slower than snow, so easier to control. I thought Id start off with the dry slope, then have a few lessons in the fridge once she had got to grips with the technique?
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Shimmy Alcott, YES
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I love(d)* my Level gloves with wristguards.
*they're knackered now.
+1 to 'real snow' rather than dry slope. Seriously. I can hardly imagine a proper toe-edge catch wipeout onto rock-hard astroturf. Sod that.
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They say that much of the UKs current crop of freestyle talent can be traced to dry-slopes, possibly because if you can learn to ride dendix, you'll lose any fear of kickers, rails and massive stairsets as falling off any can't hurt nearly as much.
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| They say that much of the UKs current crop of freestyle talent can be traced to dry-slopes, possibly because if you can learn to ride dendix, you'll lose any fear of kickers, rails and massive stairsets as falling off any can't hurt nearly as much. |
Is it it due to availability of fridges to those guys when they were growing up?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| dennisp wrote: |
| Is it it due to availability of fridges to those guys when they were growing up? |
Nope, most of the current crop cut their teeth on outdoor slopes. In fact most fridges can't setup big enough kickers for slopestyle, and its an issue that the next generation who only ski/ride in domes don't get enough exposure to larger features.
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