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Snowboarding's hotter, slower, exfoliating cousin — same wipeouts, way more sand in weird places.
means Riding a board down a sand dune the way you'd ride a snowboard down a mountain, minus the chairlift and plus a lot more sweating.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound of 'sand' plus 'boarding,' built on the back of surfing and snowboarding vocabulary. People had been sliding down dunes on planks for ages — old accounts describe dune-sliding in sandy regions well before the word existed — but the sport only got its current name and gear (wax, bindings, dedicated boards) once snowboarding made '-boarding' the go-to suffix for 'stand on a board, go downhill fast.'
- wax type
- candle wax or spray silicone, not ski wax
- speed limit
- dunes lack snow's glide, so legs burn fast
- origin story
- ancient Egyptians slid dunes on wooden boards
- best dunes
- Peru and Namibia have some of the tallest