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Competition! Canadian Adaptive Snowboard Program National Championships

Adil Latif | Snowboarding- Training to compete | ON 27th January 2009 | 0 comments

We travelled to Vancouver for a national snowboarding competition at Grouse Mountain. I was very excited as the purpose of my training this season had been to bring my snowboarding ability up to a competitive level. We were competing in boardercross, which consists of a downhill course with undulations, banked turns and a table top (a form of jump) at the end. Usually in boardercross you have more than one rider simultaneously racing one another to make it down. However, having Travis g...

Feel the hedge.com

Adil Latif | Snowboarding- Training to compete | ON 23rd January 2009 | 0 comments

It had been a tough morning - I was coming down the mountain We had had a late night I was quite tired, and I was annoyed that I hadn’t had time for my favorite breakfast cereal, Lucky Charms (Frosted Toasted Oat Cereal with Marshmallows) Travis shouted something. He shouted it again. oh, it was a command for me to turn… ok I was a little slow in turning, and the reward was a hedge bushwhacking my face! My little metro-sexual Adidas goggle...

Escaping from the aliens with the use of our splitboards

Adil Latif | Snowboarding- Training to compete | ON 2nd January 2009 | 0 comments

Recovering from New Years took a few days. We thought the mountain would be too busy with tourists as it was technically still part of the holiday period. We decided to go splitboarding once again. This time we would go on a longer journey. We went along a trail which is used by people on snowmobiles. We had to ensure we didn’t get hit by a snowmobile as it would hurt a lot. I began to think of the snowmobiles as alien crafts coming to get us! This added to the excitement though in hindsig...