With day snowboard passes reaching $40-45, and season passes climbing over $500 dollars, it is hard to see why people love the sport of snowboarding so much. What a lot of people don’t know is that we who love to snowboard find creative ways to board without going to the hill. One way many of us get on the snow more is by getting off the couch, going outside, we pick up a shovel, and build ourselves a backyard snowboard park.
I love creating and building different snowboard obstacles in the backyard, or anywhere else that you can find some open land. One of my favorite hits to build is a simple wall. The only materials you need are a couple saw horses, a 4′X8′ piece of plywood, and a little bit of the white fluffy stuff. From there the options are endless, and the the tricks you can preform are amazing. This winter get off your butt and go for it. I have just given you one of the best ways to Board the Midwest All day Everyday!
Over the past few years of my life I have developed a passion for building backyard snowboard parks. So what you will start to see throughout my blogs are, the different ways to set up a park, obstacles you can use in your park, methods to gain speed for the obstacles, and everything else I have learned from shoveling snow for hours upon hours.
In the two videos posted, our set up consists of a jump that runs into a 12 foot flat rail, and as you will see, we used the Banshee Bungee for acceleration. Because we had a shortage of snow, this is not our best set up. On the plus side, we were still able to feel the speed, float through the air, and grind some metal all in one run. Not to mention we didn’t have to pay for an expensive lift ticket!!
The first video is of myself, and the second is of my buddy Andrew. We rocked this day out until we couldn’t pull the bungee back anymore, so sit back and enjoy the footage!
I love creating and building different snowboard obstacles in the backyard, or anywhere else that you can find some open land. One of my favorite hits to build is a simple wall. The only materials you need are a couple saw horses, a 4′X8′ piece of plywood, and a little bit of the white fluffy stuff. From there the options are endless, and the the tricks you can preform are amazing. This winter get off your butt and go for it. I have just given you one of the best ways to Board the Midwest All day Everyday!
