The choice of a snowboard for the child - very crucial moment. To make the correct purchase it is necessary to consider the following parameters: length and weight of a snowboard, weight and growth of the child, width and rigidity of a board.
Instruction
1. Observe what attracts your child in snowboarding. There are several styles of driving, the choice of a snowboard directly depends on in what style the driving will be carried out. The freestyle is a style which means performance of various tricks. A carving - downhill racing from mountains by means of cut turns. The essence of freeride consists in driving at great speed on deep snow with jumps from mountain ledges. One more style - universal, it combines both various tricks, and high-speed driving. Usually on a snowboard the marking specifying for what style it is put it it is intended.
2. Check rigidity of a snowboard. Soft boards are made for freestyle and freeride, rigid - for a carving. To beginners in snowboarding, it is the best of all to get soft or average rigidity of a board.
3. Choose a snowboard on growth and weight of your child. The special table of correspondences of these parameters and length of a snowboard has to be attached to each board. If to choose simply, then the board has to be a little higher than the child's chin. Since children constantly grow, parents want to buy a snowboard a little more long, than it is necessary, but it cannot be done. Driving on an improper snowboard can cause injuries.
4. Pay attention that the less width of a snowboard, the easier to operate it. But the leg should not support its surface more than on 1 cm. Otherwise legs will prevent driving, touching snow.
5. Try to lift a snowboard. It should not be too heavy, the child has to lift without effort it for a nose one hand.
6. Select fastenings for boots and boots, being guided by the following knowledge. Soft boots are intended for a fristay and freeride, rigid - for a carving. Do not buy boots ""for growth"", otherwise the leg will be fixed not enough in them that is very dangerous. Fastenings are various and too depend on styles of driving. Rigid fastenings are necessary for a carving, and soft - for freestyle and freeride. An indispensable condition of both some, and other types of fastenings is that they have to hold boots very well.
7. Attentively check that a board, the fastenings and boots chosen by you were ideal to each other. Only in this case you can be sure of safety of your child.