Any piece of snowboarding equipment, from goggles to boots and boards have injury warnings on their boxes or labels. Orange and white labels that start out with the word "warning," stress the dangers in this sport along with the risk of death. Any jump or aerial movement in snowboarding could easily result in a broken foot, ankle, leg, arm, or wrist. A rough landing is always hard on the wrists as well. The neck and the head are very vulnerable while snowboarding. It is even recommended by any mountain or resort to wear a helmet while riding because Heads have a tendency to gravitate towards the snow upon impact, and a concussion isn't a pleasant thought to most people.
The elements endured in the sport of snowboarding are those of an Eskimos lifestyle. Freezing temperatures bite at the face while the wind mixes with rain and causes sleet and hail. Fog covers trails like an infestation of smoke. Nothing to see on any side of the trail but ghosts amongst the fog and Nothing to see but five feet in front of you in the most extreme conditions. Does any normal person enjoy this type of climate? Or are those that do simply extremists in the sport. Each with a stick of Chap Stick in their pocket to protect delicate lips in the harshness of the weather.
Taking a break from the cold and stepping back in time, on a secluded beach community road north of Malibu, A scruffy figure guides a skateboard in and out of imaginary slalom gates. The technique is more than adequate, and the skater seems vaguely familiar with this style of carving (1975). Although snowboarding won't be developed for another 8 years, the movements are born in this new sport of skateboarding, or street surfing. Unknown to the surfing community, but with skateboarding new and on the rise in the late 1960's, it will be the father to the future sport of snowboarding. Taking moves from the similar sport of surfing and combining them with skateboarding will give birth to a similar sport which will tie all three together in our world of extreme sports.
HISTORY and DEFINITION XP is the abbreviation, or 2-letter acronym for Extreme Programming. ... "Extreme Programming is a discipline of software development with the values of simplicity, communication, feedback and courage. ... IMPACT ON THE INDUSTRY Extreme programming is making a dynamic impact on the industry of software development and design. ...
What we are expected to retain, and how we are expected to develop from now is extreme. ... Although Charlie is an extreme case, and we probably wont have to go through half of the stuff he did, I think that we can all learn a lot from him and his life, and some very important and somewhat harsh lessons in life are revealed in this book. ...
He was a man with extreme abilities to quickly learn his opponent's weaknesses and turn them into favorable conditions for himself and his position as ruler. ... Not surprisingly, Hitler also held an extreme fascination of death. ... Hitler possessed so many fears that he felt an extreme need to consolidate them into one main fear that he could release all of his built up anger and frustration upon: the Jewish population. ...
Extreme weather is defined as severe, usually unexpected hazards that are out of the ordinary. Floods, droughts heat waves and bush fires are examples of extreme weather. ... Extreme weather is becoming more frequent and the view of scientists is that it is not possible to link any one particular extreme weather event to climate change. ... Most climate models indicate an increase in the frequency and length of extreme events. ... Over the last decade, there have been many examples of extreme weather. ...
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies there are many characters. Two of the most prominent and distinct characters are Piggy, and Jack Merridew. Both Jack and Piggy, are stubborn English boys of about 12 years old and symbolically represent groups of society and parts of the human thought, but Jack...
Company Description Vertical Reality is an extreme-sports theme park. It will be owned and operated by R&R Extreme, Inc. R&R Extreme, Inc. is a private corporation that is the entertainment industry. ... The mission of Vertical Reality is to provide an extreme sense of enjoyment for active people by using extreme sport simulators. ... Providing extreme excitement in a venue unseen anywhere else in the world. ...
The Hay's Production Code, that went to the extreme of forcing director William Wyler to use "clean" garbage in his portrayal of New York's slums in the 1936 film Dead End, was effective in avoiding outside censorship until changing community standards forced changes in the industry in the late 1960s. ...
Many people believe that Herbert Hoover was an extreme conservative while Franklin D. Roosevelt was a die-hard liberal simply due to the fact of their political affiliations and the parties to which they belonged. However, this is simply not true. It is believed that Hoover was devoted to keeping a ...
