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Effective Term:
Fall 2024

Course Number:
PE 184L
Course Title:
Snowboarding III
Credit Hours:
1
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
30

Course Description

Continues teaching snowboarding skills at higher speeds, varied and difficult terrain. Includes instruction in park riding, freestyle, or powder. Emphasizes safe boarding in challenging conditions. Recommended: PE 184J. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

An orientation session will be held at the college to collect fees, distribute tickets and answer questions. At the ski area, students will be placed in small classes with other students of similar ability. Classes will be conducted each of the five weeks on snow at the ski area. Lab/practice time will be available to supplement class time with the instructor, and independent practice is of the utmost importance. In addition to boarding skills, safety and snowboard skiing etiquette will also be emphasized. Students must provide appropriate clothing for winter weather in the mountain ski areas.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate skills developed while snowboarding that improve physical conditioning. 
  2. Demonstrate improvement of physical conditioning.
  3. Demonstrate flexion/extension movements in the ankles, knees, and hips. 
  4. Demonstrate pressure distribution through leg and foot actions.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

  1. Attendance
  2. Active participation and effort in class
  3. Demonstrate developed skills

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

SUBJECT MATTER: CONCEPTS, THEMES, ISSUES (TOPICAL AREAS)
 

  1. Equipment Selection
  2. Benefits of physically active lifestyle
  3. Boarding at higher speed
  4. Park Riding
  5. Safety Considerations: weather, terrain, snow conditions
  6. Competitive opportunities
  7. Freestyle
  8. Refinement of all snowboarding skills


COMPETENCIES/SKILLS:

  1. Demonstrate advanced balance, rotary, edging and pressure control movements
  2. Demonstrate level terrain turning
  3. Demonstrate walking/climbing
  4. Demonstrate skating/straight sliding
  5. Demonstrate sideslipping/skidding, toe and heel side
  6. Demonstrate skidded traverse, both directions
  7. Demonstrate standing skidded stops, both directions
  8. Demonstrate linked turns across the fall line, connected by a skidded traverse
  9. Demonstrate linked turns with no connecting traverse