A snowboarding dryslope is an artificial surface that immitates real snow, allowing snowboarders to practice their snowboarding throughout the year without the need for cold temperatures and lots of snow. Beginners often choose to learn to snowboard on snowboarding dryslopes before they go away on their snowboarding holiday in the winter. This way they won’t have to spend so much time having snowboard lessons while they are on holiday.
There are various surfaces used on snowboarding dryslopes. These surfaces include dendix, Perma-snow and snowflex. These surfaces are all different in their own way but all give snowboarders the ability to ride all year round. Countries like the Uk for example have various snowboarding dryslopes throughout the country because there aren’t any real mountains and there is never really enough snowfall.
The technique involved in riding on a snowboarding dryslope is very similar to the technique you would use on snow however, snowboarding dryslopes are a lot less forgiving so your riding style will need to reflect this and you would need to pay extra attention to detail when it comes to making turns. The fact that it is harder to learn on snowboarding dryslopes than on snow makes learning on an artificial slope a great idea before going away on your first snowboard holiday. In my opinion, if you can snowboard on a snowboarding dryslope you can snowboard on anything, but it does not necessarily work the other way around.
