Jordan Garay on Golf

Jordan Garay is an athlete.  He’s a snowboarder, tennis player, and golfer.  Jordan believes it’s important to engage in more than one sport for the crosstraining benefits.  He enjoys playing golf and tennis, and these are great ways for him to improve his skills as athlete as well as specifically a snowboarder.  


Golf has a reputation as a leisurely sport due to its slow pace and generally minimal athletic requirements.  However, Jordan Garay believes that one can attain a lot of very good qualities from playing golf that apply to other sports, especially snowboarding.  


For one thing, snowboarding requires a great deal of focus and so does golf.  When you’re teeing up and eyeing that flag in the distance, you know that the right swing can put the ball right where you want it to be, but the wrong swing can send a ball way off course,  You want that right swing, so you focus on it.  In snowboarding, one has to focus on the end of the course from the moment you start at the top.  Letting your mind lapse for even one second can be disastrous.  In order to be good at golf, one has to be able to keep one’s mind on the task at hand without being stuck on the last hole or already thinking ahead to the next.  Likewise, in snowboarding, you can’t get hung up on a bad run or too anxious about an upcoming one.  


Precision is another important quality of a good golfer.  One has to swing just right and hit the ball in just the right way in order to get desired results.  Similarly, in snowboarding, one bad turn, leaning too far left or too far right as you maneuver a course can add seconds to your ride time.  When you’re competing in a major competition, seconds can mean the difference between first place and not placing at all.  

Jordan Gary on the TTR World Tour

The TTR World Tour is a partnership of snowboarding events that gives amateur as well as professional snowboarders a way to compete for a world ranking.  The tournament is highly respected because it’s the only one of its kind that utilizes multiple contests throughout the world to reach a rankings consensus—sort of like a BCS for snowboarding.  


Over 350 contests comprise the world tour.  The ultimate prize is measured in millions of dollars, but many competitors compete for the exposure and the chance to make their mark in the snowboarding community.  The tour prides itself its innovative approach to a growing sport and believes that the growing popularity of the sport is due in part to the somewhat openness to new formats and concepts.  


Jordan Garay has been eagerly anticipating his chance to join the tour and this year it comes.  He’s spent hours training and getting himself to a competitive level.  He’s anxious to compete against some of the world’s best as he carves a name for himself in the world of snowboarding.  In particular, he will be competing at the Honda Session in Vail, Colorado.  The Honda session is an invitation only men’s only event in which riders compete for several hundred thousand dollars in prize money.  It’s one of the largest races on the TTR World Tour circuit and draws a huge crowd of onlookers each year.  


The sport of snowboarding is a favorite of adrenaline junkies.  It combines elements of skiing with elements of skateboarding.  Once an obscure sport limited mostly to the X-Games crowd, it has seen its popularity grow considerably as an Olympic sport for the past four Olympics.  It’s now a mainstream sport commonly seen on ski slopes.  


If you would like more information about the TTR World tour, you can visit the website at http://www.ttrworldtour.com.