Resort riding is what I would say is the most common kind of snowboarding.

Resort riding is done at your normal local ski resorts, using lifts to access the terrain

that you want to ride. Most of the time the terrain that resort riding gives you acces

to is typically "groomed" terrain. This means that a snowcat uses its blade to level out

the trail and the tiller to break down the chunks and level everything back out.

This terrain is very smooth and us great for people that like to carve, or make deep high

speed turns going down the mountain. Resort riding also gives you the best access to

the most broad spectrum of terrain diffuculty. On a ski resort, they use a ranking system

to distinguish the beginner terrain from the expert terrain, and everything in between.

A green circle starts off as the easiest, or "flattest" terrain. The next level up would be a

blue square which is your intermediate level trail. After that is a black diamond which

marks the beginning of the advanced terrain, then leveling up to a double black diamond

as the most difficult terrain. Park snowboarding would also fall into the catagory of resort

riding but differs enough from regular trail riding enough to give it its' own catagory.

Most of the time, resort riding is done on a somewhat aggresssive camber style snowboarding,

meaning the space between your feet on the board is raised, making the board more

stiff and stable, but also making it easier travel from heel edge to toe edge. These boards are

also typically a directional shape, meaning they are designed to be ridden in one direction,

where as twin boards are designed to be ridden both ways. The beauty of snowboarding

though is that it is all personal preference, if you like the way that a snowboard rides,

then you should ride it.