Snowboard school in Mittersill - Pass Thurn

Especially for beginners we have our Burton snowboards with the Flat TopTM flex, which provide a stable, soft and playful ride. The flex of the snowboard should therefore be lower. This will help you keep your balance, make turns easier and tilt less often. For all Burton snowboards applies: The weight decides the length, NOT the height!

As a snowboard beginner you need material that you feel comfortable with. Important here are flexible bindings (snowboard soft bindings), which make it easier for you to turn and you still have a good grip.

We have the Progression Custom snowboard binding from Burton.

In general, one can distinguish between three major directions:

• Freestyle-Snowboard for slope, fun park, pipe

• Freeride-Snowboard for slope, powder snow, off-piste, freeride

• Race-Snowboard for slope, fast curves, high speed

For all Burton snowboards applies: The weight decides the length, NOT the body size! You distinguish then only the width of the board, which depends on your shoe size, whether you need a normal board or a wide.

Preload:

• Camber -> only the outer contact points (nose & tail) lie on, therefore good edge grip is created. This is more difficult to ride, but offers more stability at faster speeds and harder conditions.

• Rocker -> The support is thereby centered, the snowboard is thus much more rotatable, but no longer so grippy

• Flat -> a mix of camber and rocker, the snowboard lies rather flat for optimal grip and yet good turning ability

You should consider all the above points and, of course, find out for yourself what suits you best or to which riding style the snowboard is best suited.

The combination of snowboard, snowboard binding and snowboard boots makes only the total package!

For this purpose, a corresponding snowboard rental is suitable to be able to test enough -> TEST & BUY

As with any sport, the learning success depends very much on age, condition, strength, body feeling, balance, talent.

Especially in the beginning, the assistance of a snowboard instructor is very important here, on the one hand to maintain confidence, and on the other hand to learn the right technique right away.

Somehow you always get down the mountain, but HOW is then very decisive about the fun of snowboarding.

And even if the beginning is difficult, you will then be overwhelmed with feelings of happiness throughout your life, when you are standing on the mountain, and the descent on the slopes, in deep snow or through the fun park in front of you and then mastered.

In the beginning, skiing is easier to learn because you have skis strapped to both feet, keeping your balance is greatly assisted.

In snowboarding, you are fixed with both feet strapped, you can easily tilt forward or backward, so the assistance of the snowboard instructor is also very important in the beginning.

In the further learning stage, after the first turns, snowboarding is again easier, because you can then overcome steeper slopes (red slopes) also sliding (backside, frontside).

When skiing, you need a very solid technique for steeper slopes (from red slopes).

That depends entirely on what your personal goal is and how far you want to develop. On the one hand, this depends on the time invested to be able to practice accordingly, and how often you get tips from a snowboard instructor.

The learning success is always individual, generally you can ride blue and light red slopes after 3 full days of snowboarding lessons, or overcome steeper sections by sliding.

But you never stop learning, even we as top trained ski and snowboard professionals can always improve.

Very important: the better your technique, the better you have the snowboard under control, and the lower your risk of injury!

• Regular -> the left leg is in front

• Goofy -> the right leg is in front

In our rental shop we always like to set all bindings to "duckstance" (-15 degrees and +15 degrees) in the beginning. Also for those who can already snowboard, but the last day on the snowboard is already back a bit.

So you are ready to move in both directions, you notice even after some time, in which direction you turn easier. After that we adjust the binding in the rental or the appropriate snowboard instructor.

Snowboard, snowboard boots, snowboard binding, snowboard pants, jacket, appropriate underwear, gloves (preferably those that support the wrist), helmet, snowboard goggles.

Like so many things, you can teach yourself to snowboard.

Aber macht es denn wirklich Sinn:

• to learn the wrong technique?

• that the sport thus becomes a cramp and not a pleasure?

• put yourself and others at increased risk of injury?

• with all the total costs that such a sport carries, to save just on the snowboard course, that is, on yourself and your technique improvement?

Because just the right technique makes you a better snowboarder and brings you the fun you should have!