Plenty of sunglasses designers offer eyewear with squared lenses, but Quiksilver's shades nail the right shape and feel with just enough curved wrap in the distortion-free shatter resistant polycarbonate lenses that you can transition from casual to sport and still spot what's coming out of the corner of your eye.

Many of the Quiksilver styles come with additional interchangeable lenses and a protective rubber case that separates the pocket for storing the other lenses. All models come with a 100% UV sun protection guarantee.

Depending on the style you choose, the Grilamid nylon frame offers slightly transparent flair that sets Quiksilver far apart from cookie-cutter basic black frames. Quality nickel-silver Italian hinges keep everything together in a smart blend of fashion and functionality.

Stir up your flair for vintage fashion with these Quiksilver The Last Polarized Sunglasses. Unlike the real stuff in consignment stores (look under scratch-and-dent) The Last Polarized Sunglasses have clear and highly durable CR-39 shatter resistant lenses with eight-base wrap coverage. It's a sermon worth considering:
Why pay more for overpriced sports sunglasses when Quiksilver's Preacher Polarized Sunglasses give you the same So-Cal surf styling and distortion-free, shatter-resistant polarized lenses for at least $20 less than similar designs? Quiksilver used the same high-quality nickel-silver Italian hinges found on their expensive sunglasses, but lightened the load across the temples and nose with a flexible Grilamid nylon frame.

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Good Preparation pays dividends

If you are interested in skiing snowboarding it is important to learn some safety tips before you hit the slopes or the hills. Like any other physical activity, this type of snow sport makes you susceptible to injury. The good news is that with the right precautions and correct gear you can significantly reduce that chance of injury and be sure you have a pleasurable day on the slopes.

Prevention Techniques

Many skiing snowboarding injuries commonly occur in the upper extremities of the body as well as the ankle. By and large, sprains are the most common type of injury followed closely by fractures and contusions. Due to the fact that snowboarders tend to fall forwards or backwards upper body injuries are also common. Instead of throwing your arms outward as many snowboarders are prone to do, try to keep them tucked in and then roll with the fall. Throwing your arms outward to try to stop your fall will ultimately result in fractures to the wrists, elbow and shoulders. Tucking and rolling with distribute the impact of the overall fall over a larger portion of the body.

When lower body injuries occur it is primarily due to the snowboarder’s feet being strapped into the board. This localizes knee movement. If you do a lot of aerial movements the chance of spine, chest, and abdominal and head injuries greatly increase. Be aware that ankle injuries are also quite common. It is also possible to attain head and spinal injuries if you lose control of the board at a high speed.

Get to the Doctors Fast!

If you do become injured while skiing snowboarding it may be difficult at first to determine the extent of the injury. First, be aware that anytime there is swelling this is a good indication there is a serious injury and it needs to be addressed promptly. Always make sure you visit a physician immediately to obtain a correct diagnosis of the injury. Anytime you sustain a sprain it is advisable to rest your body and stay off the hills for at least 24 hours and possibly up to 48 hours.

Protect yourself!

You can also protect yourself while skiing snowboarding by insuring that your body is in good condition. Following a fitness routine on a regular basis can help to ensure your body has the flexibility it needs for snowboarding. Wearing the right equipment is also a good way to protect yourself. At a minimum, you should always make sure you are wearing a helmet to protect you from head injury, quality boots to provide your feet and ankles with good support and stability, wrist and elbow guards, knee and tailbone pads as well as a padded jacket and pants and of course, goggles to protect your eyes from wind and snow.

Toby Russell owns & operates the information site http://www.snowboardinglatest.com, which aims to offer useful & practical advice for all snowboarders.

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I may be starting to sound redundant always talking about trampoline but that's because the trampoline is the greatest tool a snowboarder could own! With the exception of slides and presses, which require some sort of obstacle to execute, any trick you ever attempt in snowboarding should first be mastered on the trampoline. Just jumping and spinning on a trampoline won't help you in snowboarding though.

This next statement might confuse some of you, but learning a trick on a trampoline is way different from taking it to a snowboard. So how can a trampoline help you get better at snowboarding then? Here are some tricks and techniques to use on your trampoline that will benefit you when you take them to the snowboard slope.

Springs Only!

We all know that those springs can snap and come flying. What you didn't know is I guess somebody sued and now they make these really lame trampolines with elastic wraps instead of metal springs. The result: an almost unusable trampoline. It doesn't bounce right, it doesn't bounce high, and it's a huge waste of money and time.

So in using the tips on this article, I am talking about a metal spring trampoline. The originals. You can usually get them super cheap just by looking in your penny saver or the classifieds. Trampolines are big cumbersome objects that people like to get off of their lawns once the kids grow up (I never grew up though... sorry mom). I found mine for a whopping $40 and it's lasted going on two years.

Starters

JUMP! The first thing to do with your trampoline is jump as high in the air as you can. A couple things to concentrate are how you are timing the jump and your body's orientation in the air.

Once your body leaves the ground all sorts of core muscles (inner muscles that you can't see, not even if you workout all the time) will kick in and try to keep you level and stable in the air. If you are flailing your arms about in the air going every which way then this is where the trampoline will help you.

Jumping straight up and down will get you use to being in the air. If you want to add more authenticity you can strap you snowboard on (just remember to tape the edges so you don't tear your trampoline). Now you are ready to practice some grabs.

Grab every spot on the board you can (between bidings only!) and just start playing around with it. Adding your own little tweaks to grabs on the trampoline will set you apart and develop your style for the snowboard slopes. For nose and tail grabs make sure you are grabbing the very tips of the board every time!

Spins/Inverts

This is where a trampoline can come in really handy. Now, spinning/flipping on a trampoline is entirely different from executing the trick on your snowboard... there is no edge work, no transition, and no speed involved in the equation, but...

You can't just throw a 540 without knowing what it feels like to rotate a spin and a half. That's where the trampoline comes in.

When spinning/flipping on a trampoline there are several things to take into consideration:

1. Your orientation: are your legs tucked, are you relatively flat based in the air.

2. The windup: Concentrate on how you are initiating the spin. This will help you gauge how much force you need to bring the rotation around on the slopes.

3. Head position: Where are you looking as you do the spin? Think about doing the trick on your snowboard. Where do you need to be looking to bring the trick around completely? At what point during the spin do you spot your landing zone?

4. The landing: Are you landing a nice full rotation? Think about your edgework. The nice thing about snowboarding is that if you under rotate a spin you can kind of recover by sliding it through after the landing... but you need to make sure you are landing on the edge that's going to give not just dig into the snow and scorpion you down the landing.

In any rotation trick in snowboarding you can expect to be flying blindly through the air at some point. Practicing those in-air aspects on the trampoline eliminates a lot of that guesswork leaving only your approach up the transition to figure out.

Especially with inverts, you want to be landing on your back on a trampoline not hard-pack snow. Inverts put your head and neck in a good bit of danger, it's good to be sure you are going to land on your feet to some extent before you try it on hill, and that's where a trampoline comes in.

Once you start understanding these tricks more strap on a snowboard and start throwing in some grabs. Certain grabs aid certain rotations... you will have to play with it and find out what works best for you.

Rails/Boxes

How can you practice a snowboard rail on a trampoline? Well you aren't going to practicing the slide that's for sure. First you are going to spray-paint or lay down a line of tape straight down the center of your trampoline. This line represents the box or rail.

See where I am going with this? Now you choose frontside, backside, switch, or regular and jump. This is practice mainly for 270s and above. It is a really good way to get used to staying on target while spinning.

As you do this you are gong to want to pay attention to several important on hill aspects: Make sure you are keeping a good bead on where the line is underneath you, it will help you so much later when you can land dead center on a rail every time.

Also keep in mind that if it were a rail or box you would be sliding after the fact... so take into account how you would angle your bodyweight to land flat based and slide.

Make sure you get comfortable with executing spins on hill before you go try 270s and whatnot because even though you will know how to complete the rotation and adjust to the slide angle, you will need to be comfortable spinning off a transition and getting your snowboard to go where you want.

This is pretty obvious but you should know and be pretty comfortable with all the slides and presses on all the kinds of jibs before you start going after 270s.

That's my trampoline snowboard practice guide. I cannot stress enough that these are only a means to an ends and you will still have to do a bit of tweaking to make it work on hill with your snowboard. I hope it helps or at least kills some of your summer downtime waiting for those local mountains to be white-capped once again.

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What if I told you that any hill in your town could be your own personal snowboard slope? Introducing Freebord... you've seen in the magazines but here is the scoop on this awesome off-season snowboarding alternative!

Essentially Freebord was created out of designer Steen Strand's vision to employ the sideways slide of a snowboard with a skateboard's boundless portable potential. The result is the essentially a longboard with bindings. By adding two pivoting wheels to the middle of the board a 'base' of sorts is created allowing the rider to roll his weight and slow down or stop just like a snowboard. The bindings are really just modified and improved toe hooks, you can bail if you need to and not have the board strapped to you.

For those of you who hate speed wobbles, you can point the Freebord with minimal speed checks and not even show the slightest sign of losing control. If you aren't a speed demon and just enjoy the feeling of carving your way down the snowboard slope, you can use the Freebord to execute perfect S-turns all the way down your neighborhood hill. To slow down just check your speed like on a snowboard.

For freestyle junkies the board is strapped to your feet, enabling you to ollie everywhere. Of course you can take it just about anywhere from there... spins and rails are yours to conquer. The kicker is that those pivoting wheels put a bit of snowboarder finesse to your favorite street tricks. Impress your entire city with the tricks you can learn, the possibilities are endless.

The base price for the board, trucks, wheels, and bindings is $209.99. There are upgrade packages and the price goes up from there. Since you are essentially using the friction from the fixed wheels to slow and stop, you might consider getting another set because I'm sure you eat them up pretty quick.

The bottom line is we are here to snowboard and sometimes that just isn't an option. We have to do everything we can do to keep the dream alive through the summer months and the Freebord is the closest snowboard simulation I have ever seen. To learn more check out the Freeboard website at freeboard.com... see you on the hills.

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Surfboards come in such a variety today that no one's garage could hold even one sample of every type. But out of the variety of choices, one is right for you.

The traditional beginner's board and still used by experts is the longboard. Typically about 9 feet (2.7 m) in length, they can be as long as 12 feet (3.7 m) or more. The average longboard is approximately 21-24 inches (53-61cm) wide, though some are wider. Generally made from polyurethane foam, usually coated with fiberglass, they now come in composites of different types, as well. The number of fins isn't standard, but the usual board will have one, just in front of the midpoint or near the tail.

Shortboards have gotten very popular, too, though. As the name suggests they are around 6 feet (1.8 m) and often more narrow than a typical longboard. They're lighter weight, of course, and more maneuverable. On the downside, they're harder to control, may offer less buoyancy, and feel less stable to a beginner. They tend to have multiple fins.

At the extreme end of length there are boogie boards, fish boards and a wide range of other boards. To each his own.

Thickness plays a role in several ways. All other things being equal, a thicker board is heavier, but more buoyant. That apparent paradox is explained by the fact that though the board has more material the substance it's made of floats. A battleship is heavy, but very buoyant.

A more buoyant board will offer a smoother ride once the surfer is standing, since it will sit higher in the water. When paddling, it generates less drag making the effort to catch a wave less. For beginners, a board about 2.5 inches/6.3 cm thick is about right. The specific number that is best will vary with the surfer's weight, however.

Another major aspect of the board beyond length, width or thickness is its template. That term refers to the overall shape - more oval, more narrow, pointed vs rounded nose, flat vs rounded tail and more. Narrower boards feel less stable in the water to a novice, but will have balance characteristics that are favored by some advanced riders.

A board that is a gradual oval, about the same width along most of its length, will provide the best ride for most beginners. Balance is easier and paddling is less difficult. A rounded tip is safer for those who are not yet up to speed, since getting separated from the board can be made a worse experience when the two come in contact again.

At the beginning, it's best to borrow or rent a number of boards before choosing even your first to buy. Boards are expensive, even second hand. You'll go through at least two as you learn, but better two than three or four. A well kept board will often last for years. Save yourself money and grief by choosing well.

Cade Denton is an avid surfer and an editor for http://www.SurfWonders.com your complete resource for surfboards and surfing gear.

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Surfing doesn't require a lot of gear, but it's important to choose the right gear. Ability, location, and climate are just a few factors that determine the best surfing gear for you. A Surfboard, most likely a wetsuit, and a few accessories are really all you need.

There are many types of surfboards. Longboards are 9ft or longer. These are definitely the best kind of surfboards to learn on. They float well and catch slow moving waves the best. Funboards are shaped like longboards with wide tails and noses, but shorter at 7ft to 9ft in length. These are best for longboarders moving on to something smaller or for less than full sized adults that are learning to surf. Fishboards are very short but wide surfboards that make for a good progression from funboards. They work great in smaller, weaker surf while offering more manuevarability than longboards or funboards. Shortboards are for more advanced surfers and offer the most performance. They are also the hardest boards to paddle and not the surfboards to learn on. The two main construction types of surfboards are epoxy and traditional. Epoxy is becoming very popular because of the lighter weight and high strength, but many lack the same drive and performance of traditonal construction. Fin setup is also a major consideration for surfboards. Tri fins are popular with many surfboards. Twin fins and Quad setups are common with fishboards. Single fins come with many longboards. Of course you need some surf wax for that surfboard.

For colder climates , which is most of the US most of the time, wetsuits are a mandatory part of your surfing gear. There are two types of common wetsuits for surfing, full suits and spring suits. Full suits are for water temps in the low sixty degrees (fahrenheit) and lower. 3/2 mm thickness are used from about mid sixties to mid fifties. 4/3 mm thickness for mid fifties to high forties. Below that full suits with 5/4 mm thickness are in order. Spring suits, depending on your comfort level, are used in the low seventy degrees to mid sixties. Booties and hoods are also used with colder temps. Some major brands of wetsuits for surfing wetsuits are Quicksilver, O'neill, Rip Curl, and Billabong. All wetsuits should be checked very carefully for fit. There are size guides for almost all brands but it's best to try several wetsuits as they are all cut slightly different.

The most important surfing accessory is the leash. Usually they have a standard thickness and a thinner one called the "comp" leash. The comp is lighter but breaks more easily and should be avoided for beginners. The other basic but useful surfing accessory is the surfboard rack. There are soft racks that travel easily and hard racks which are easier to use but are more permanently affixed to a vehicle.

Although surfing is not an equipment intensive sport, it's important to choose your surfing gear wisely. With so much time spent looking for surf and time spent in the water, you don't want bad surfing gear reducing your wave count. Spend the time asking other surfers their opinions about gear. Also consider that most people working at your local surf shop should be able to steer you in the right direction.

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New to wakeboarding? - Follow our simple starters guide to get you out on the water fast! Weve taken common questions from our customers that are new to the sport and provided answered from our experienced staff.

Most wakeboard manufacturers provide useful information to help you decide which board is right for you. This information is usually limited, so we’ve put together this simple guide to help get you started.

What type of wakeboard Should I buy?

It’s important that you choose a board which best suits your own individual skill level. You should also consider the type/style of boarding that you want to do.

All wakeboards are specially designed with different features. Variables such as the shape and size of a board are what ultimately determine how it will perform.

What board shape should I choose?

Beginners generally prefer a board with squared edges. The squared edges give you more control and stability, this type of board is usually recommended for someone who is not ready for big air tricks.

More advanced riders would be better suited to a board with rounded edges which help to make air tricks easier to land. The Rounded edge design allows less chance of catching an edge when landing. The rounded edge also helps give the board more speed and lift when jumping.

Wakeboards are also designed with either single or double tips. Single tipped boards are pointed at one end and squared off at the other. Double tipped boards are rounded at both ends, allowing for easy transition when switching directions and landing tricks. The majority of the boards available are double tipped.

We would recommend a double tipped board for beginners. The reason for choosing a double tipped board is that it allows for easier execution of the basics such as reversing the direction of the board. In addition to this, most modern double tipped boards are lighter and easier to jump with.

What length board should I choose?

Wakeboards come in various different lengths and this will vary depending on the manufacturer. Usually, any one particular model will be available in 2 or 3 different lengths. The table below can be used as a rough guide to which board length might best suit you:

Small Person 125cm - 135cm
Meduim Person 135cm - 140cm
Large Person 140cm - 145cm+

For Beginners, longer boards are most commonly recommended as they offer more stability and can take larger riders.

Ive bought my board, what else is there to know?

Once you have purchased a board there are one or two other things you will need to consider before hitting the water.

Your board most likely came with a set of fins, but if it didn’t you will need to choose and buy fins to suit you, your board and your preferred style of riding. Make sure your fins are tightly secured with the wider end to the outside of the board. Longer fins will track more easily in the water giving you a more stable feeling on the board. Shorter fins will release from the water more easily, giving a looser feeling on the board. Many beginners will find it better to use longer fins, 2" to 2.5", when they are first starting out, especially if they are riding in choppy water.

Your rope should be secured to the pylon or tower at a set distance depending upon your boat's wake. The closer you are to the boat, the smaller the wake will be - this may be better suited to the beginner. As you get further from the boat the size of the wake will increase.

You don't want to be so close that you hit with the spray of water that shoots up at the start of the boat's wake, this is often referred to as the rooster tail. Once you feel comfortable, you may want to try extending the rope length so that you are riding the wake where it is larger. A longer rope will also allow you to take a longer cut at the wake, gaining more speed and allowing you to get bigger air.

And please don't forget your most valuable piece of equipment, your buoyancy aid!

Written for Bob Spalding. Online retailer of wakeboards and other related extreme sport gear.

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