What is a snowboard cross?
Snowboard Cross is an official name for a competitive downhill event, which is more commonly known for well -known snowboarders and extreme sports fans like boardercross. Sport is also known as boarder X, BX or SBX, and includes a group of snowboarders, usually four, racing along the course for testing the Council of Athletes. The winner is the first to cross the finish line, and unlike most snowboard events, style and technology are not evaluated. In addition to sharp turns, magnates, drops, jumps, peaks and flats themselves, competitors of snowboard must also be crossed to fight together, and competitors often encounter a narrow course, which means that they often fight for both position and balance. Fast pace, crowd jumps and regular erase make a snowboard cross popular spectator sport.
Steven Rechshafner, along the jokes Greg Stump, man attributed inventive extreme sports, pHe said with the idea of creating a hybrid snowboarding and motocross and creating an event that tests speed and control when the competitors hit and jostle in position. This motocross influence is perhaps the most visible in the helmets of all -rounds worn by competitors. Stump business manager, John Graham, was responsible for postponing and marketing namesky boxer Cross. In the spring of 1991, Rechshafner and Stump introduced the world's first world in the world on Blackcomb Mountain in British Columbia, Canada, as the last part of the TV series that Stump filmed for the Fox network. Dan Donnelly, a professional snowboarder from Ferndale in Washington.
Sport has since grown in popularity. In 1997, X-Games for the first time included a snowboard cross and the event has been mentioned annually. Electronic Arts together with Rechshafner created an extremely popular series "SSX" (SSX "series. These video games, the first launched in 2000, introduced a new mainstream audience on a snowboard cross, even whenThey represented over-the-top, arcade action with impossible trick jumps and did not try to simulate sport.
6 Seth Wescott from the United States and Switzerland Tanja Frieden won the gold medal of the first men and women. Pravidla byla interpretována Mezinárodní lyžařskou federací (FIS), která dohlíží na olympijskou událost, aby zdůraznila dovednosti a jemnost, zejména omezující jostling mezi závodníky na příležitostný kontakt. Ačkoli většina snowboardistů stále používá jméno BoarderCross k odkazu na tento sport, FIS mu dala oficiální název snowboardového kříže.