This guide is designed to help you become a better Snowboarding coach.
Planning a Snowboarding Training Season
Teaching Snowboarding Skills
Snowboarding Rules, Protocol and Etiquette
Acknowledgements
Special Olympics wishes to thank the professionals, volunteers, coaches and athletes who helped in the production of the Snowboarding Coaching Guide. They have helped fulfill the mission of Special Olympics: to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for people 8 years of age and older with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Special Olympics welcomes your ideas and comments for future revisions of this guide. We apologize if, for any reason, an acknowledgement has been inadvertently omitted.
Contributing Authors:
Sven Knupp, Snowboarding Sport Resource Team Member
Ryan Murphy, Special Olympics, Inc.
Brett Nemke, Snowboarding Sport Resource Team Member
Bob Whitehead, Special Olympics Wisconsin and Special Olympics, Inc. — Snowboarding Technical Delegate
Special Thanks To the Following for All of Your Help and Support:
Floyd Croxton, Special Olympics, Inc., Athlete
Jarvis Jones
Dave Lenox, Special Olympics, Inc.
Paul Whichard, Special Olympics, Inc.
Special Olympics Idaho
Special Olympics North America
Special Olympics Wisconsin
Video Clips Starring Athletes from Special Olympics Maryland:
Troy George
Josh Ortega
Stephanie Rodriguez
Video Shoot Support from Special Olympics Idaho Staff and Volunteers:
Terry Kinkead — Coach
Corby Goade, Special Olympics Idaho
2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games — Games Organizing Committee
Tamarack Resort — Tamarack, Idaho USA — Location of Video Shoot and 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games