Snowboarding Informative Speech

Have you seen the 2018 winter olympics? You might have seen a thrilling scene with a huge jump! This olympic event is called “ Big Air.” This chilling sport has actually been around for some time, even though it’s the first time in the Olympics. The first ever big air competition was held in Austria 1994. It was not as popular as it is now but the X games brought it back in 2008, after that it has become one of snowboardings popular attractions.

Have you ever been snowboarding before? I will have to say snowboarding is pretty tricky especially big air. While you are in the air a team of six judges drop the highest and lowest scores. The remaining four scores are averaged for each run. The judges will judge from scale 1-100. Scoring is based

around the D-E-A-L criteria.

You have to be pretty athletic to be in the olympics. While you are competing to be in the big air category, athletes say you have to be good at rotation tricks which are very difficult. The athletes have to have a lot of control of the board. And they have to hold the board as long as possible. The sport is not exactly judged on how high the athlete goes and is more about how accurate the athlete is. To get a decent score the athlete has to must land with full control and they must complete the trick. Therefore, big air is an incredible sport and I hope i could try it out someday.