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Sandboarding

Sandboarding is a board sport on sand dunes and sand slopes, with competition formats such as slalom, boardercross, big air or best trick. InterSands documents international development work and current championship formats.

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Classification

Category Other

Family Skate Family

Level Discipline

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Sandboarding is a board sport on sand dunes and sand slopes, with competition formats such as slalom, boardercross, big air or best trick.

Geeignet für Fits if you like board sports, dunes and unusual outdoor spots, you want to start with helmet, protection and conservation rules, you find short repeats and balance practice more interesting than long pistes.

Cost 20-200 EUR depending on equipment and venue. 0-80 EUR per month depending on class, club, or venue. 5-50 EUR per month if a club structure exists. For rare sports, cost and availability vary strongly.

First progress Depending on sport, from immediate to several months.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

Sandboard, wax/suitable base, helmet, goggles, knee/elbow pads, firm shoes, water/sun protection and a clearly permitted dune.

First steps

Start at an allowed dune spot or with an operator: gentle slope, proper sandboard, wax/grip, protection on, then practise stopping and short drops first.
Look for a sandboard park, dune operator, local outdoor guides or regions where sandboarding is explicitly allowed.

Look for a sandboard park, dune operator, local outdoor guides or regions where sandboarding is explicitly allowed.

Start only in the appropriate source-described context and follow local rules.

Weitere Angaben

Tags board, sand, dune, outdoor, gravity, sandboarding, outdoor-sport, sand-dune-board-sport

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Ride a sand dune with control, speed or technical difficulty and optimise time, line, trick or heat placing depending on the format.

Teilnehmer

Individual riders in freeride, slalom, boardercross, big air or best-trick formats.

Teamgröße

Individual riders in freeride, slalom, boardercross, big air or best-trick formats.

Spielfeld

Permitted sand dune or sand slope with sufficient incline, run-out, rescue/event planning, environmental permission and weather/sand safety checks.

Dauer

Duration depends on set, timed, tournament or local rules.

Wertung

Time, heat, trick or judging score under organiser/InterSands event format.

Gewinnbedingung

Achieve the faster time, better heat placing or higher trick/judge score.

Ausrüstung

Sandboard, binding/wax depending on sand, helmet/protection, dune access, start/finish markers and event/rescue planning.

Wichtige Regelpunkte

ball or implement out
net/zone fault
wrong contact sequence
unsafe or local-rule violation

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

International Sandboarding and Sandski Association (InterSands)

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