TGR is celebrating its annual Safety Week, coaching their athletes in all of the medical, rescue, and snow science abilities they should keep protected within the backcountry. And the hope is that they encourage others to do the identical.
Backcountry snowboarding is a sport that takes plenty of coaching and training, if you wish to do it safely. It isn’t nearly ripping gnarly strains down huge mountains (though, that’s an enormous a part of it).
No, to be really protected within the backcountry, you could perceive avalanche dangers, know fundamental first help and medical abilities, and perceive rescue protocol. You’ve acquired to have the ability to use a beacon, shovel, and probe. You’ve acquired to know the best way to save somebody in the event that they get buried or injured in the course of nowhere.
That’s all straightforward to miss while you’re wrapped up in certainly one of Teton Gravity Research’s (TGR) ski films. When you’re watching TGR athletes like Kai Jones and Nick McNutt carving up untouched slopes, it’s arduous to think about simply how a lot preparation and coaching the athletes and their staff needed to get with the intention to pull off even a kind of photographs.
Which is a part of the rationale why TGR celebrates Safety Week yearly — internet hosting the International Pro Rider Workshop (IPRW). The manufacturing firm will get all of its athletes collectively beneath one roof. They evaluation avalanche security abilities and observe them. They study backcountry medical abilities and focus on snow science and snow pack, and the best way to keep away from avalanche terrain.
Throughout the IPRW, TGR releases brief edits that give us a peek behind the scenes at how these coaching periods go. TGR has impressed numerous skiers to get into the backcountry. So, realizing that, it began making these edits to point out individuals how a lot effort TGR places into staying protected.
This 12 months, in celebration of Safety Week, TGR can be making a gift of a pair of Atomic Bent 110s. Enter to win them on TGR’s Instagram web page.
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