An early season recruitment and training camp for Para Snowboarders entering the competitive snowboard stream. This camp will be focussed on increasing the number of athletes within the IPC classification that snowboard, while promoting awareness and interest in the sport discipline by aligning it prior to the Para World Cup. The technical lead and National Team Coach Greg Picard will guide athletes through the Para Snowboard discipline while promoting skill development in all participants. This initiative will offer opportunities and resources to coaches, instructors, athletes, and can assist Para athletes in the adaptation of snowboard equipment. We will be riding the hill prior to the 2022 Para World Cup at Big White, with a classification opportunity on Dec 18th, 2022.

Discipline(s): Para Snowboarding

Goals: Recruitment to the sport and increasing awareness, Development Training

 

Three possible classifications of athletes:

  • SB-LL1 for athletes with significant impairment to one leg, such as amputation above the knee, or "a significant combined impairment in two legs", affecting their balance, their board-control and their ability to navigate uneven terrain.
  • SB-LL2 for athletes with impairment to one or both legs "with less activity limitation", such as below-knee amputation.
  • SB-UL for athletes upper limb impairments, affecting balance.