A humorous insider's guide to the cult culture of snowboarding--which crosses surfing and skiing--reveals the secrets of the snowboarder community, deciphers its members' slang, and explains just what makes a snowboard cool. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Bill Kerig has been a contributing editor at both Skiing and Snowboard Life magazines. He lives and rides in Vail, Colorado.
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High in the snow-covered mountains of North America, a new and strange species of Homo sapiens is mutating. Characterized by wide, boardlike appendages that attach to its feet, this new species has built a language, a community, a world, around the act of riding a buttered stick down a slippery slope. The scientific name for this species is Singleplankus ripthehillicus.
That's Snowboarder to you and me.
So begins The Snowboarder's Total Guide to Life. Part anthropological study and part field guide, it gives the inside look at the mating rituals, migratory patterns, and grooming habits of nature's most recently evolved creature: the North American Snowboarder.
Bill Kerig, a self-confessed member of the species (and a snowboarding addict), lets us in on the Snowboard Creation Myth, explicates the Freudian significance of the stick, and gives us the skinny on how to...
perform the essential Cool Daddy Handshake
walk the walk
talk
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