ABSTRACT
Snowboarding is a relatively new discipline in snow sport. It evolved from a skilike sport, which in the beginning mainly entailed the “slalom” discipline, but now includes other disciplines such as “snowboardcross”, “big air”, “half pipe” and “slope style”. In this short period, a world circuit was developed with World Cups, World Championships and even Olympic disciplines (FIS, 2007). The evolution towards the more recent snowboard disciplines was only possible due to a fast evolution of the snowboard material (boots, fixations and boards) and snowboard accommodation in snowparks e.g. jumps (different in height and slope), half pipes (U-curved area for jumps and tricks) and handrails (see Figure 1).
