Lvl 2: Equipment, Kinesiology, General Tech/Mech Flashcards
What is a snowboard? List and explain the visible parts and characteristics of a snowboard.
What is the purpose of a snowboard boot? List important characteristics and features of snowboard boots.
What is the purpose of toe and heel lifts?
What is the function of orthotics?
Differentiate between lifts and cants.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of soft and firm flexing boots?
Differentiate between the different types of snowboard bindings. List features in order of importance.
What is the purpose of a highback? In what ways are highbacks adjustable?
What is the function of camber, reverse camber, and sidecut?
How does the longitudinal and torsional flexibility of the snowboard influence snowboard performance @ different speeds & in different snow conditions? Relate to beginners, intermediates, & experts.
Relate snowboard length to rider weight, ability, riding style, and conditions.
Describe the differences in shape as well as construction of a twin tip and directional snowboard.
Describe different snowboard constructions.
What factors determine where the edges of a snowboard are sharpened or dulled?
Distinguish the effects of a flat or slightly convex running surface on a snowboard. Relate to purpose.
Classify 2 types of edge bevel and describe the purpose for each.
Relate stance angles to body positioning on the snowboard.
Differentiate between the terms “stance” and “stance setup”.
Arrange important factors in determining stance angles, based on their order of importance for you.
Measure your split. Interpret the significance of that number.
Cite the important characteristics of your equipment. Justify your choices.
Identify techniques to prevent equipment theft.
Explain the benefits of snowboard safety equipment.
Identify important characteristics of snowboard clothing and accessories.
Summarize the benefits of various materials used in thermal and outside layers of snowboard clothing.
Why are mittens warmer than gloves?
Explain the importance and characteristics of snowboard eyewear.
Classify important characteristics as well as any potential drawbacks of wearing a helmet.
Make equipment and clothing recommendations for riders of different ability and budget.
Define kinesiology, biomechanics, and physics.
What is the importance of a muscle-joint relationship?
Differentiate between the different types of muscle contractions. Provide snowboarding examples.
Where is the Center of Mass of the avg adult male, adult female, and child?
Chart the major joints of the body by type (hinge, ball-&-socket, etc) and movement possibilities for each.
What connects bones to other bones?
What connects muscle to bone?
Describe the major functions of cartilage.
What is the function of lactic acid? How is it created and removed from the body?
Explain the difference between the ankle and subtalar joints.
What physical laws are relevant to snowboarding?
What significance does momentum have on snowboarding?
Why is there less fatigue in a taller position than a lowered body position?
What causes bone spurs?
Identify the groups of muscles of the lower leg.
What fuel do muscles use in anaerobic activity?
Relate stance angles to body position and alignment on a snowboard.
What forces act against gravity’s pull in a straight run, a basic turn, and a dynamic turn?
Describe angular momentum and relate it to a turn on a snowboard.
Relate the significance of the term tangent.
Identify & explain the various movements that you can use to unweight your snowboard.
Specify the fundamental difference between pivoting and carving.
Specify the fundamental differences between basic and dynamic turns.
What is the most important joint in the body for maintaining balance?
Describe the effects speed and intensity of rotational movements have on the radius of a turn.
Identify & explain different methods of starting a turn.
List factors that cause braking, maintaining speed and acceleration in turns.
Differentiate between stance and posture.
Describe methods to tighten the radius of the 2nd half of a turn.
What are the advantages of a higher or lower stance relative to muscle involvement, up down/lateral movements, quickness, and adapting to terrain and snow conditions?
Define pressure. How does pressure on a snowboard related to edge angle, pitch of the hill, and speed?
Identify possible causes of losing pressure on the edge of the snowboard in the middle of a turn.
What causes the snowboard to chatter during a turn?
Describe specific combinations of movements you can make to vary the degree of edge angle in a turn.
Relate the placement of maximum edge angle, set in different parts of a turn, to acceleration of the rider.
As pitch, speed, and/or rate of directional change increase in a turn, how does the body effectively adjust?
How does the line the body takes vary from the line of the snowboard in reference to basic and dynamic turns? Relate each type of turn to short, medium, and long radius.
Discuss potential results of riding on ice using a high and low edge angle.
Discuss potential results of riding in powder using a high and low edge angle.
Illustrate the differences in the way you would explain the same movement to students on different types of equipment or riding vastly different stance angles.
