The Benefits of Snakeboarding
As well as giving you the deepest carves, a feeling of freedom and just putting a huge smile on your face, Snakeboarding comes with many other benefits for both your mind, body and even helping you excel at other activities. Read on to find out the benefits of Snakeboarding:
1. Improve your Coordination
Once you've learnt to Snakeboard, its like riding a bike, you will have a skill for life. The movement however at the beginning is quite unnatural and takes your full focus as well as a few days of constant practice to engrain it into your muscle memory.
It is a huge challenge of coordination, that once solved, you will reap the benefits both on and off the board.
2. Improve your Balance
Riding any board requires you to work on your balance. Riding a Snakeboard is no different and will improve your balance over time. You will engage your core keeping you centre of gravity the right side of the wheels, increase you reaction time in micro adjustments when your balance is thrown off and gain confidence every time you ride.
3. A Fun way to Burn Calories
Getting your cardio done is much easier when its so much fun to do. Snakeboarding provides a full body workout, engaging your core for balance, your upper body for powering the board along as well as of course getting in leg day! Especially when going uphill!
4. Cross Train for other Sports
Whether you surf, snowboard or wakeboard, the benefits of riding a Snakeboard are obvious to see. Keep that carving muscle memory fresh by jumping on your Snakeboard when there's no surf, no snow or the lake is frozen over. Board sports are the obvious cross training benefit, but it doesn't end there. Almost all sports, such as swimming, running or cycling, require some form of fitness, coordination and balance: Three things the Snakeboard helps to improve in abundance!
5. Get Outdoors
With many of us increasingly tied to our desks under artificial lights, it has been proven that ensuring we get outdoors and a daily dose of natural light can help with getting a good night's sleep, combatting depression as well as improving our all round mental health. Snakeboarding is such a fun activity, once you're hooked getting yourself out of the house will be the easiest decision you've made all day!