Snowboarder X (also Boardercross, Boarder-X or BX, SBX, or Snowboard cross) is the official X-Games The X Games is a commercial annual sports event, controlled and arranged by US sports broadcaster ESPN, which focuses on extreme action sports. The inaugural X Games was held in the Summer of 1995 in Rhode Island title given to the sport traditionally and still more commonly known as Boardercross - a snowboard Snowboards are boards, which resemble a wide ski, with the ability to glide on snow. Users of such equipment may be referred to as snowboarders. Commercial snowboards generally require extra equipment such as bindings and special boots which help secure both feet of a snowboarder, who generally rides in an upright position. These type of boards competition in which a group of snowboarders (usually four) start simultaneously atop an inclined course, then race to reach the finish line first.
Boardercross is also used in the context of mountainboarding Mountainboarding, also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, Grass Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding , is a well established if little-known extreme sport, derived from snowboarding. A mountainboard is made up of components including a deck, bindings to secure the rider to the deck, four wheels with pneumatic tires, and two steering mechanisms, referring to similar races on snow-less courses with similar features.
Still widely referred to as boardercross by the snowboarding community, it wasn't until the International Ski Federation (FIS) An exception from the ski sports organised by FIS is the rising-popularity discipline of Biathlon , which has its own organisation, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) (the skiers' organisation which controls Olympic ski events) assumed control of Olympic boardercross events that the term snowboard cross materialised. This was due largely to the language barrier - because when boardercross is translated into the FIS's native French and back again, snowboard cross emerges as a literal translation.
Boardercross courses are typically quite narrow and includes cambered Camber angle is the angle made by the steering wheel of a wheeled vehicle; specifically, it is the angle between the vertical axis of the wheel and the vertical axis of the vehicle when viewed from the front or rear. It is used in the design of steering and suspension. If the top of the wheel is farther out than the bottom , it is called positive turns, gap jumps, berms A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier separating two areas. Berm is a loanword from Dutch, drops, and steep and flat sections designed to challenge the riders' ability to stay in control. It is not uncommon for racers to collide with each other. Some observers have compared the sport to short track speed skating Short track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m. The rink itself is 60 m by 30 m, which is the same size as an international-sized hockey rink because of the amount of contact involved. The name and the riders' full-face helmets A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries, a variation of the hat. The oldest known use of helmets was by Assyrian soldiers in 900BC, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from sword blows and arrows. In the 2000s, soldiers still wear helmets, now often made from Kevlar rather than show the sport's influence by motocross Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. Motocross is derived from the French, and traces its origins to British scrambling competitions. The name "motocross" is a portmanteau derived from the words "Motorcycle" and "Cross Country".
The first ever Boardercross event was held in the Spring of 1991 at Blackcomb Mt. BC. Steve Rechtschaffner and Greg Stump staged the event, to film as the final episode of their "Greg Stump's World of Extremes" TV show that they were doing for FOX TV. The idea for the event, the format and rules came from Rechtschaffner, along with the designing and building of the course. Stump's business manager John Graham coined the term "Boarder Cross", which everyone adopted. Rechtschaffner then went on to help build courses for people across N. America for the next few years, helping to spread the reach of the event. Later on, Erik Kalacis staged the first professional Boardercross series, called The Kokanee Cross, in Canada. Much later on, Rechtschaffner took inspiration from Boardercross to create the multi million selling hit series of SSX video games for Electronic Arts.
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Major multi-sport competitions
Boardercross has been an event in every X-Games The X Games is a commercial annual sports event, controlled and arranged by US sports broadcaster ESPN, which focuses on extreme action sports. The inaugural X Games was held in the Summer of 1995 in Rhode Island since their start in 1997. It made its Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games are a winter multi-sport event held every four years. They feature winter sports held on snow or ice, such as Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating, bobsledding and ice hockey. Cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and speed skating have been competed at every Winter debut in 2006 The 2006 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition consisted of men's and women's Halfpipe, Parallel Giant Slalom and Snowboard Cross events.
The first Olympic medals were won by:
Video games
The earlier releases in the EA Sports EA Sports is a brand name used by Electronic Arts since 1993 to distribute games based on sports. Formerly a gimmick inside Electronic Arts sports games, that tried to mimic real-life sports networks, calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John Madden, it soon grew up to become a SSX SSX is the first in a series of snowboarding video games published by EA Sports BIG. It was the first game to be published under the brand, which specializes in extreme sports titles with an unrealistic or arcade feel. As such, the game's exaggerated jumps, highly decorated mountain runs and improbable tricks make it a classic example of an EA (Snowboard Supercross) series of video games A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device. The electronic systems used to were loosely based on boardercross. The games are very much arcade-style video games, not a simulation game, focusing more on unrealistic tricks and larger-than-life courses.
The game Sonic Riders Sonic Riders is a racing video game spin-off produced by Sega and developed by Sonic Team in cooperation with NowPro, for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. It is the fourth racing game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, preceded by Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2 and Sonic R, a Sonic the Hedgehog series Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series released by Sega starring and named after its mascot character, Sonic The Hedgehog. The series began in 1991 with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, in addition to an 8-bit version of the game for the Master System and Game Gear formats. Sonic was responsible for turning Sega racing game in which SEGA Sega Corporation is a multinational video game software and hardware development company, and a home computer and console manufacturer headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. The company had success with both arcades and home consoles, but on January 31, 2001, officially left the consumer console business and began concentrating on software characters race on hoverboards, is partly inspired by boardercross.
See also
- Motocross Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. Motocross is derived from the French, and traces its origins to British scrambling competitions. The name "motocross" is a portmanteau derived from the words "Motorcycle" and "Cross Country"
- Skiercross Ski cross is a type of skiing competition. It is based on the snowboarding discipline of boardercross. Despite it being a timed racing event, it is often considered part of freestyle skiing because it incorporates terrain features traditionally found in freestyle
- Monoboard
- IndyCross[3]
References
- ^ Torino 2006 - Snowboard, Men's "Snowboard Cross" Finals
- ^ Torino 2006 - Snowboard, Women's Snowboard Cross Finals
- ^ http://diablofreeridepark.com/indycross.html
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Q. I am an snowboarder, and i'm creating stickers for my snowboard, for it to be more customized and stylish.I want to put a cross on it , for god to protect me while riding, and i need a sentece in latin under the cross. Any Ideas ?
Asked by rf2chidiac - Sun Jan 13 21:32:16 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments
A. I don't think the word "snowboard" exists in Latin. They definatly didn't have snowboards when Latin was spoken. lol
Answered by pickles - Mon Jan 14 16:26:03 2008
