For the fourth year running, the World Snowboard Day returns on the 20th December 2009. The day itself is a celebration of snowboarding across the globe, currently with 39 events planned across 19 countries including obvious places such as Canada, USA, China, France, Sweden, Austria and Italy as well as more surprising but just as exciting places such as Serbia, Bosnia, Ukraine, Moldavia, Georgia and Russia. The number of events and countries may change over the next month or so as more join up, so it’s best to visit the website for more information.What is World Snowboard Day then? Well as stated before it is a celebration of snowboarding, with professional snowboarders and novices alike coming together across the world to revel in their favourite pastime, hitting the snow! It also a great promotional tool, allowing the uninitiated to get a feel and look at what snowboarding is about and what it can offer you.
It’s also a place for the pros to showcase their stuff, and there will be plenty of competitions and shows put on for the fans, along with plenty of amateur events so everyone can have a go. There will be places to get some lessons for true beginners and expect some wild atmosphere and great music wherever you are as well.
It’s also a good place for manufacturers to show what new snowboarding gear they have to offer, such as their latest snowboards, or snowboarding clothing, protective snowboarding equipment and more. So expect to see names such as Forum Snowboards, K2 Snowboards, Ride and much more at least at some of the events, if not all of them.
Unfortunately the UK doesn’t have any events planned at the moment (though this may change as more venues are added), but there are plenty of places offering holiday packages to most of the destinations events are being held at, and as World Snowboard Day falls on a Sunday, why not make a weekend break of it, there are bound to be plenty of build up parties and events to the day itself and will make for a hell of a time.
Wold Snowboard Day is on the Sunday 20th December and is going to be an amazing day, for full information and to keep up to date visit www.world-snowboard-day.com.
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