Snowboarding in Action (Sports in Action) - Softcover

Kalman, Bobbie; Crossingham, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0778701255 ISBN 13: 9780778701255

Publisher: Crabtree Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

An overview of the sport explains how to select equipment, warm-up, start, stop, turn, ride moguls, and perform such freestyle tricks as ollies, spins, and straight airs.

About this title

From Booklist:

Reviewed with John Crossingham's Cycling in Action.

Gr. 4-7. Well-illustrated and surprisingly thorough considering their brevity, these titles in the Sports in Action series offer a good introduction to their sports. Cycling presents different types of cycles, offers advice on sizing a bike to its rider, and then gives tips on bike maintenance and on techniques for mounting hills, long day trips, racing, and freestyle. Snowboarding discusses ski-hill terminology and basics, such as getting on and off the lift, and then instructs how to attach bindings and how to master basic movements, such as stopping and turning while maintaining balance. Subsequent spreads address different moves for various snow conditions. Although not all the young athletes are pictured with helmets, both books encourage readers to observe safety practices, and a spread on suggested warm-up stretches reinforces the texts' emphasis on injury prevention. With easy-to-follow descriptions, a useful breakdown of each sport's essential equipment, and attractive, uncluttered spreads that combine sharp color photos with clean-lined color drawings, these titles will find a wide readership among interested middle-graders. Check the Series Roundup in this issue for more titles in the series. Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Crabtree Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0778701255
• ISBN 13: 9780778701255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Rouse Bonna