Snowboard, an electrifying sport at EYOF, lets young athletes carve their own path down snow-covered slopes. With events like big air, and slopestyle, it blends creativity, speed, and agility. Experience the freedom and adrenaline of snowboard and ride the mountain your way!

In slopestyle, athletes navigate a course with a variety of obstacles (rails, jumps of various types) and are judged on breadth, originality and quality of their stunts.

In big air, athletes ride down a slope with a ramp that they use to jump and perform different aerial tricks.

HISTORY

Snowboarding combines elements of surfing, skateboarding and skiing.

Snowboarding was developed in the United States in the 1960s as people across the country began to seek out new winter activities. Over the next decade, various pioneers boosted the production of boards, and the sport began to gain crossover appeal. Surfers and skateboarders became involved, and by 1980, snowboarding was a nationwide activity.

In the late 1970s, snowboarders started to “invade” traditional ski resorts, but faced opposition from skiers who tried to exclude the snowboarders from “their” mountains. By the 1990s, however, almost all ski resorts had accepted snowboarding, and the resorts have found the snowboarders to be an excellent source of new revenue.  

Men’s and women’s snowboarding made their Olympic debuts at the Nagano Games in 1998 with giant slalom and halfpipe competitions. The discipline proved an instant success and returned to Salt Lake City four years later with parallel giant slalom and halfpipe competitions. In Turin, snowboard cross also made its debut. In this event, four riders race across a course studded with jumps, bumps and huge turns. Slopestyle was added for 2014 and Big Air for 2018.   

(source: https://olympics.com/en/sports/snowboard/).