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Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope on a snowboard that is attached to one's feet using a boot/binding interface. It is similar to skiing, but inspired by surfing and skateboarding. The sport was developed in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s and became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998.

The equipment needed includes:

Snowboard
Snowboard Boots
Snowboard Bindings
Snowboarding Jacket
Hat/Beanie
Scarf
Snowboarding Pants
Gloves/Mittens
Helmet
Goggles

All of this gear and more can be found at any online snowboard shop or at your local snowboard shop.

Alpine snowboarding is a small niche of the sport of snowboarding. It is typically practiced with hard plastic shelled boots called "hardboots" and carving or race-oriented snowboards. Loosely, it is the pursuit of snowboarding mostly on the ground, in the forward direction, with the primary goal of making clean, smooth turns. By this definition, alpine snowboards technically came first, and freestyle snowboards came second. However the term "alpine" has come to be mostly associated with snowboarding in hardboots, as they are the choice for people seeking the purest carved turn. Lately, the terms "Alpine Snowboarding" and "Hardboot Snowboarding", or just "Hardbooting" have become synonymous. All Alpine snowboarding gear can be found at your local snowboard shop.

Source: wikipedia.org , mamashealth.com
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