Physics in snowboarding/skiing

Because balance is such an important thing in snowboarding and skiing, they both involve some physics in them. For example, when you are snowboarding down an inclined hill, you have to lean your body towards the hill both when you are facing it and when you are facing downhill. You always lean towards the hill in order to keep your board balanced and not leaning downwards, otherwise you will fall downhill. As soon as you turn, your board is going directly downhill and starts accelerating. You don't want it to go too fast downhill if you aren't an expert, so you have to make sure you turn your hips as soon as you can to get the board to slow down. Skiing is different from snowboarding, but there is still a lot of similar physics involved in it. When you ski, you are never facing directly uphill, but if you are a beginner, you face sidewards a lot of the time. When skiing across a hill, you always want to keep your weight on the leg that is more uphill to keep your balance. If you are going straight downhill, you need to keep turning your hips so that you don't go too fast downhill. So if you are a beginner at either skiing or snowboarding, you will always have to think about the physics involved in these activities so that you don't hurt yourself on the mountain.