Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz – Snowboard Terrain

Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz has been a snowboarder his whole life and he has gained the skills necessary to take on a wide variety of terrain. Not only has he boarded in the United States throughout his upbringing, but with his job as an ESL Teacher he has taken his board with him to Japan, Korea, Switzerland, France, Chile, Argentina and many other world-class destinations. Below, Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz touches base on the differences between the types of terrain that one would encounter at most ski resorts around the world.

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Groomers

Groomers are the best option for beginners, as the groomed paths and wide lanes are not only free of obstacles but also spacious enough to get a good learning session in. Groomers can be labeled as greens, blues or even blacks at times.

Ungroomed Terrain

When it comes to terrain that hasn’t been touched by plows or snow making machines, you get out of the groomers category and go into terrain that is usually categorized by a black diamond, double black diamond, or “expert only” designation. These types of areas will include obstacles that range anywhere from trees to boulders, cliffs and other such hazardous conditions. Once someone gains the skills necessary to take on such terrain, they also reap the benefit of going to the lesser-occupied parts of the mountain.

Park

Once riders have gained a certain level of expertise that enables them to do tricks, they often then go to the park to test out what they have. Terrain parks contain obstacles such as ramps, rails and half pipes to encourage people to test their acrobatics on the board.

Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz – A True Family Man

Now having spent a good portion of his life in other countries, Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz has returned to the United States to live and work in New Jersey, a state that he has found to be a great place for raising a family. Now with a wife and two kids, he is a proud family man who loves and cares for each member of his family in ways that make him both an excellent husband as well as father. Below, he introduces and shares some details about each member of his beautiful family.

Amaya is Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz’s wife of fifteen years. They first met in Japan while he was teaching English as a second language over there. The two fell for each other then, but Amaya was still finishing her schooling in Tokyo when he finished his contract, so they separated for a few years and ended up getting back together in the United States. Now she is a legal assistant as well as a mother to their two beautiful children.

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Ken, their first-born, is a seventh grader who has already displayed his incredible smarts and ability to be a wonderful student in school. He has won multiple spelling bees at his school, and has gotten outstanding results in standardized English tests.

Sunny is their second and youngest child; and she too displays exceptional skills in English. Evidently both of Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz’s kids inherited that gene, as her vocabulary extends far beyond that of your average second grader.

Musical Inspirations

Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz is a full-time ESL instructor and part-time guitar teacher. As a family man who loves to maintain his favorite hobbies in the balance of work and being there for his wife and two kids, he has achieved all of these things with an incredible work ethic and a nonstop passion for music. All of this was inspired by a few artists who were special to Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz’ upbringing and he shares them below.

Johnny Cash

When Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz got his first guitar, it was an acoustic and he had wanted to learn some classic country songs. The music of Johnny Cash had always appealed to him, so “I Walk The Line” became his first ever cover. From then on, he was hooked both to the instrument and Johnny Cash, and went on to learn the rest of his discography. And in that, Johnny Cash has had a tremendous impact on his life.

Metallica

The day that he first heard Metallica, was the day he decided he needed an electric guitar. Kirk Hammett was among his top influences growing up; and is also the one who can probably be most credited with Yogesh’s heavy metal approach to music as well as life in general. Nonetheless, it is also where he inherited his tendencies to palm mute and do pinch harmonics.

Both of these musicians have directed Yogesh Patel Santa Cruz’s style, while it also holds other classical influences such as Bach. The day Yogesh entered classical guitar training himself, it was actually a third genre he was about to take on.