| If you are letting your summer days slip away just | | | | last season! |
| sitting at home thinking about last seasons | | | | Speaking of inverts... and trampolines, if you don't |
| snowboarding and hoping for a good season next | | | | have one find one. Like I said I found one very |
| year than you need to catch up! There are tons of | | | | cheap on PennySaver, some folks can't wait for the |
| things you need to do this summer before you are | | | | extra lawn space! Trampolines are a really good way |
| ready to shred the slopes of 08/09. | | | | to familiarize yourself with this thing in snowboarding |
| Always go swimming in the summer. Swimming and | | | | called airtime, not to mention you should not even |
| snowboarding don't generally go down together so | | | | think about going inverted until you can flip about on |
| take full advantage. It's a nice low-impact exercise | | | | a trampoline. If you still aren't sold, then how about |
| that will only strengthen the muscles you use to | | | | the aerobic exercise and the fact that you will have |
| snowboard and may even aid in recuperating injuries | | | | spring loaded jumping legs after a summer with your |
| you didn't know were there! Don't forget to break | | | | trampoline? Seriously, and especially if you are serious |
| out that tanning oil and re-introduce sunlight to the | | | | about snowboarding, pick up a trampoline. It is |
| parts of your body that have been covered in | | | | incredibly useful tool. |
| snowboard outerwear for the last couple of months | | | | Other than that you could go |
| (this is really important, just ask Lauri Heiskari!) | | | | extreme-snowboard-jock status. You know, hit the |
| Pick up an alternative boardsport of some kind. Some | | | | gym and benchpress a couple hundred pounds then |
| people skateboard, some people wakeboard, some | | | | enjoy a nice Big Gulp sized protein shake. Actually |
| people surf. Grab an old skateboard, find a trampoline | | | | lifting heavy weights is incredible waste of time. |
| and start trying tricks (I bought a huge trampoline | | | | Heavy weights accustom your muscles to very slow |
| off PennySaver for $40). Not into that stuff or just | | | | controlled movement. Snowboarding is the complete |
| too busy? No excuse! Find an old skateboard deck or | | | | opposite of slow and controlled. You want to be |
| something similar and buy a 2 liter of soda... now | | | | quick and agile... like Terje Haakonsen the "sprocking |
| you've got yourself a balance board. Do yourself a | | | | cat". You are better off just doing some push-ups, |
| favor and improve your legs, your balance, and | | | | sit-ups, chin-ups and then go skating or what have |
| orientation (knowing where the board is). You can't | | | | you for your aerobic workout. Don't forget about |
| afford to stay off a board this summer if you want | | | | swimming! |
| to be pulling all those steezy inverts you were landing | | | | |