First Tracks: The Beginner's Book of Snowboarding

Winter is not the off-season. Winter is a wave standing still, waiting. This is the complete beginner's book of snowboarding from Carve My Waves™ — one board, a sideways stance, and a whole mountain. Gear, language, the FIS rules of conduct named and explained, lift and park etiquette, and the step-by-step path from falling leaf to linked turns to your first ollie.

Inside:

• The World — from Sherman Poppen's 1965 Snurfer and Jake Burton Carpenter's workshop to Nagano 1998 and the modern mountain
• The Gear — camber and rocker in plain words, boots and bindings, stance angles, helmets and wrist guards, the layering system — plus Start With Nothing: beginning with rentals, borrowed gear, and no budget
• The Language — 30+ real terms: corduroy, bluebird day, face shot, switch, jib, butter — defined warm and clean
• Etiquette, Rules & Regulations — all ten FIS rules of conduct named accurately and explained, lift etiquette, terrain marks on two continents, park SMART/ATML discipline, and the backcountry awareness boundary
• First Sessions — one-footed skating, gliding, J-turns, falling leaf on both edges, and your first chairlift — including Train Before You Own: living-room turn mechanics before the mountain
• The Moves — skating & gliding, heelside and toeside falling leaf, linking S-turns, your first ollie, and a first box/park introduction — each with setup, steps, mistakes, and a drill
• Events & The Scene — the Olympics, X Games, World Cups, banked slaloms an improving rider can enter, demo days
• The Journey — a progression map from first month to first season, plus a 7-day riding log

Digital PDF download. Carve My Waves™ — learn to ride winter itself.