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How to build your own powder board

Shape your own snowboard out of ply wood

How to Build Your Own Powder Board
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Mini-Shred: How To Teach Your Kids To Snowboard

Once any residual smugness about having procreated has died away, and you have managed to get your kids beyond the stage of crapping into their...

How To Teach Your Kids To Snowboard
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How to Ride Powder Safely With Friends - 10 Tips from a Mountain Guide

Safety in numbers is one of the golden rules of backcountry riding; unfortunately, it is also one of the biggest causes of avalanche – through...

How to Ride Powder Safely With Friends - 10 Tips from a Mountain Guide
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Tree Riding - Our Top Tips

Our simple guide to slashing powdery tree runs

Tree Riding - Our Top Tips
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6 Relatively Simple Halfpipe Tricks You Should Try

How to drop in, slash the lip and stomp your first air in the pipe

6 Relatively Simple Halfpipe Tricks You Should Try
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7 Ways to Have More Fun in the Park

How to progress, impress and make the most of your freestyle time

7 Ways to Have More Fun in the Park
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9 Relatively Simple Kicker Tricks You Should Try

But you don't have to try them on kickers this big...

9 Relatively Simple Kicker Tricks You Should Try
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Cab 180

Do a backside or frontside 180 and you're going to land travelling backwards, so how do you revert to riding normal again?

How to Cab 180
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Ally-oop

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkyqx59x63 Frontside and backside airs are the first tricks you normally learn in a pipe, but before moving onto spins, there’s a further category to understand:...

How to Ally-oop
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Backslide Lipslide

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkykj7w8jg Often confused with the frontside boardslide the backslide lipslide a.k.a. ‘back lip’ is arguably even more stylish. So what exactly is a lipslide? Well, it...

How to Backside Lipslide
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Backside Blunt 270 Out

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkyld3nksd The Backside Blunt 270 Out is difficult enough to say, never mind perform, but if you’re getting serious about your jibbing then combos like these...

How to Backside Blunt 270 Out
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Wallride

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkylnilz3c Hitting your first wallride is potentially daunting. The secret – like rails – is to forget all you know about using your edge. Instead, remember...

How to Ride a Wall
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Frontside 540 Indy

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkxocvu0m9 The frontside 540 is a pretty advanced trick for most snowboarders, but broken down into composite parts it is achievable. If you’ve got frontside 360s...

How to Frontside 540 Indy
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Frontside 180 Melon Grab

The frontside 180 melonchollie (or ‘melon’ to give it its shorter title) is a beautiful, classic trick. The grab is perfectly suited to fronstide 180s...

How to Frontside 180 Melon Grab
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Method

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkxjkdvb8m The method was dreamed up by skateboarder Neil Blender – a vert-riding legend who entered a highest air contest in California in 1985 with rules...

How to do a Method
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Frontside 180

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkxjdntjbu Once you’ve got flat ollies down and you want to start on your freestyle career, you’ll probably want to throw a 180. The frontside version...

How to Frontside 180
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Ollie

http://mpora.com/videos/AAdkxj7zhnwt Ollies were invented in 1975 when an American skateboarder named Alan ‘Ollie’ Gelfand kicked his skateboard off the vert section of a halfpipe and caught...

How to Ollie
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Rock Fakie

Before trying this trick it’s good to be comfortable riding backwards (switch) for the fakie part. And yes – backwards, switch and fakie are all...

How to Rock Fakie with Nate Kern
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Backside Disaster

This is another lip trick that’s been taken from skateboarding. It’s more of a challenge than the Rock Fakie and can be made more difficult...

How to Backside Disaster with Nate Kern
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