Adam’s Apples #5 Take a bite of snowboarding knowledge

Hey, my name is Adam Bowcutt and I’m a snowboarder. Welcome to this week’s tasty round-up of snowboarding blog posts, articles and forum topics from around the world.

Halfpipe style king Danny Davis to miss the Olympics, but he’ll be back.

USA halfpipe team member Danny Davis broke his back and will miss the upcoming winter Olympics 2010. Danny injured himself on a quad bike crash after celebrating his Dew tour slopestyle victory. He was one of the favourites to win Olympic gold after landing 3 double corks in his winning run. Danny Davis joins fellow team mate Kevin Pearce both sidelined from a promising Olympic performance due to injury. However, these athletes are young and no doubt will be back to conquer the world snowboarding contest circuit in the near future.

Check out Danny Davis’ website HERE

Use your head & help prevent snowboarding injuries

Getting injured in snowboarding is almost inevitable. It’s often not a case of if it’ll happen, it’s when. More time spent snowboarding the more likely you’ll be injured. After all, this is an ‘extreme’ sport. Having said this there are many precautions riders new to the sport can take to prevent a ubiquitous snowboarding injury. More experienced veterans, who will probably reel off a long list of injuries if you asked them, can still learn new ways to avoid further pain. One simple and often overlooked method is wearing a helmet.

Read ABC of snowboarding’s guide to injury prevention HERE

Do you want to save your Ass ?

Snowboarders more often than not take quite a pounding to their butts. This can be pretty painful at best. As well as bruised bottoms are bruised ego’s. There is a solution to help save your ass, so to speak. Azzpads are specialised tail savers that will help to ease the pain of hard slams on the piste or in the park. They won’t make your butt look super-sized like other impact shorts. So, next time a girlfriend asks “does my bum look big in this” you can reply ‘No of course not’, honestly.

Check Azzpads out HERE

When you use ski lifts at your favourite resort mountain and enjoy a fun day of riding or skiing then it’s in your interest to know the Alpine Responsibilty Code. It’s a set of commonly agreed responsibilities that every resort user should abide by. If everyone follows the code then theoretically everyone on the mountain will stay safe and relatively injury free. An example is ‘always obey all signs and posted warnings‘ Generally if ski patrol sees somebody disregarding the code then a few stern words or even being escorted off the hill may be the result. Holiday makers and seasonnairres all use the mountains for fun. It’s everyones responsibilty to make sure we are all in as safe an environment as possible.