Abstract
The moment it hit the slopes, snowboarding introduced new, original values concerned with flouting existing standards and emphazing the attractions of risk. Since those first days, ski resorts have seen the local development of this original movement that has given birth to various snowboarding styles. These new styles seem to have promoted a community feeling that makes risk a central concept. Our objective has been to determine whether risk, as a central value of those movements, is differently represented by practitioners, depending on the sport and the sliding style they adopt. In order to answer this question, we made a questionnaire based upon the social representations theory, about a thousand participants filled in at ski resorts. We have thus shown that snowboarding and sliding styles remain a strong symbol able to gather their participants around a specific apprehension of risk at winter sports resorts.
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