A stance is how you stand on a snowboard or skateboard or surfboard. Since snowboards require the use of bindings, your stance on a snowboard will determine how you mount your bindings.

Find a hill full of snow and build your very own snowboard jump with these helpful tips. Then hike it all day and practice new tricks -- your riding will rapidly improve.

The great thing about snowboard bindings is that you can easily mount them by yourself, and change the bindings or their position as often as you like. Here is everything you need to know to mount a pair of bindings onto a snowboard.

Estimated time: 15 minutes.

Pull a roast beef out of your bag of tricks and provide your friends with a chuckle and yourself with a little bit of snowboarding fun.
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: Practice

So you've decided to try snowboarding. You've bought the gear, you've mounted the board... now it's time to learn to snowboard.

This article will take you through learning to snowboard in ten steps. Each step is listed in order so that you may progress logically from one step to the next. You may even want to print this article and take it with you to the slopes as you learn to snowboard.

An indy grab is the quintessential "first trick". Once you get the hang of it, you can experiment with style by trying it tuck-knee or by boning it out (straightening your front leg).
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: Practice

A backside 180 is one of my favorite tricks. You can do it small while you're still learning, or huge and slow once you have it down. The technique is the same; the style is all yours.

Difficulty: Average
Time Required: Practice

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Mike McGill invented the McTwist in the early 1980s. He used the McTwist in a public competition in 1984 at a skating contest held at the Del-Mar Skatepark. The McTwist mixes together a Backside 540, a mute grab and a front flip during the one trick. Read on to learn more.

Difficulty: Challenging Do a McTwist on a Snowboard