How to Properly Fall When Learning to Snowboard

If you only learn to snowboard you encounter a few bumps in the road. I do not give a hoot what anyone tells you, if you are at the beginning, on a board you go to save ... several times. Just like in hockey when they teach, how to get a hit so he did not take well to hurt themselves, there are certain things you need to know in order to keep getting hurt from when you learn to snowboard. The most common snowboarding injuries areBreak your wrist and hit her head on the floor and hurt the tailbone. So without further ado you read these tips to save themselves a trip to the ER too.

1) Wear a helmet!

Now this one is just plain obvious and does not need to explain much. If you want to make sure that you keep intact your head, you can be a brain bucket. My helmet is all scratched up and dinged with Pitt but you know what? I've never had a trip to the hospital for a head injury, because Ialways wear my helmet.

2) Falling Forward --

OK, so you your helmet, and you'll be down the hill, and you catch an edge and filed first with the face in the snow. What's the first thing you have on your way down? I bet you put out your hands to break your fall, and its only natural to do so. But let his hands is a common mistake that novices make when learning to snowboard, that often separate wrist sprains and fractures. Try this nextHow do you make time to drop your hands into fists and put your arms out to break your fall. Once your arms to make contact should be the next point of impact will the chest. Your forearms will be taken the brunt of the impact and the chest have to know to spread to the rest of the impact. I know it sounds painful, but it is not real.

Practice this on the hill of strapping into your board and top hill and knelt. From there, just falling forward with his fists andForearms in front of you. Do this about ten times to get a feel for how one should come forward and when your comfortable doing this, it becomes more instinctive.

3) Falling Backwards

The case is to the rear a little more complicated, because you cannot see what is behind you when you fall and you have to rely more on instinct when this happens. As snowboarding beginners fall backwards can be unnerving, especially when you catch an advantage, because it's very unexpectedBut follow these steps, and save the coccyx.

-Pull on the chin, as you fall just tuck in your chin, whip this way you stop your head from whipping back on the snow and give you a concussion and / or whip.

Spread your arms to the side. It seems illogical, but by this way you will spread the force of the impact on your entire back, shoulders and arms. Most people hold their arms clamped to reach or injure themselves and at the end of her tailbone and wrist joints. IfYou agree, in the fall and brace the impact in this way, you significantly reduce your risk of injury.