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| Air - To
"get air" is to do a jump or otherwise take to the air on
a snowboard. |
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Back Foot - The foot that is
nearest the tail of the snowboard. When skating,
this foot is un-strapped and thus otherwise known as the
"free foot". |
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Base - The bottom of the snowboard.
Consists of P-tex, wax, and metal edges. |
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Biff - To crash or fall. "Dude, I
totally biffed it back there." i.e. bail, wipeout,
bite it, eat s&!t |
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Bonk - To make contact with an object, usually on
purpose. ex: "I didn't have time to avoid the
stump, so I ollied up and bonked it."
Alt. To run out of energy. |
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Bindings - The hardware used to
fasten ones feet to the snowboard. The interface
between boots and board. |
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Butter (the muffin) - A maneuver where one shifts
weight all over the nose of the board and then performs
a rotational move such as a 180° or 360°.
Typically results in the spreading of snow as if the
board were a knife spreading butter. |
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C |
| Carve -
A turning maneuver where the edge is set firmly into the
snow and the tip and tail of the edge follow the same
path creating a thin line in the snow |
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Camber -
When you lay your board flat on the ground, the middle
will bow up. It distributed the base and edge
pressure evenly across the snow surface. |
| Cheese wedge - A large park jump structure
sculpted in such a way as to resemble a wedge of cheese. |
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Cords - Texture of lines left by a grooming
machine found on newly groomed runs. aka
corduroy, roy. |
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D |
| Dude - A
generic title for a person -- typically a male. |
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E |
| Edge -
Narrow strips of steel on the sides of the snowboard.
Aids controlling the board, especially on firm snow
surfaces. |
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Fakie - To snowboard the opposite way than you
usually go. For example, if you are regular
footed, riding right foot forward would be riding fakie. |
| Free-Carving - A type of free-riding in which
one typically employs a special snowboard setup designed
especially for carving (hard boots and directional
snowboard). |
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Free-Riding - A discipline of snowboarding that
encompasses all-mountain riding. |
| Freestyle - A discipline of snowboarding
where one can do many tricks. i.e. park and pipe
riding. |
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G |
| Goofy Foot - The riding orientation wherein
one goes with the right foot forward. |
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Gnarly - Awesome, amazing, or otherwise grand.
Syn: sick. |
| Gaper - A person who appears to obviously be
a tourist. aka: touron. |
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H |
| Heel-side - A turn or other maneuver whereas
the rider performs while balancing over the edge of the
snowboard that is behind or on the side of the heels (as
opposed to toe-side). |
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J |
| Jambalaya - Mute and stalefish grabs with a
360 and back flip. |
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Jib - To make contact with the board to a
non-snow surface (tree stump, picnic table, rock,
etc...), often intended to add style to a jump or trick. |
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| Launch - To take to the air in a jump. |
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M |
| Manual - A maneuver where one shifts weight
all over the nose (or tail) of the board leaving the rest of the
board off the snow surface. |
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Method - A grab trick requiring a decent amount
of air, the rider reaches down and grabs the heel-side
of the board in front of the back binding and then pulls
the board behind his body. Body can become parallel with
the ground at the pull point. |
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Mute - A grab trick where the rider grabs the toe
edge of the board between the bindings with the leading
hand. |
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N |
| Nollie - To jump
(ollie) from the nose of the board. |
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Nose Grab - An aerial maneuver adapted from
skateboarding where one grabs the leading tip of the
board while airborne. |
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Nose-press - A manual performed on an
object like a rail or box. |
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O |
| Ollie - To jump by one's own effort (or most
of one's own effort), not relying solely on speed and
terrain feature for getting air. Typically
performed by loading energy on the tail of the board by
flexing it and releasing the stored energy in a sudden
manner. Similar to (and adapted from) an ollie
maneuver in skateboarding. |
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One-footer - Riding one foot unstrapped for a
variation of tricks. Basic is usually a grab while
sticking one foot out or down below the board. Adopted
from skateboarding and bmxing. Generally a dangerous
maneuver due to risk of knee and ankle injury. |
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P |
| Poser - Someone who tries to make others
think he/she is a skilled rider by means of dress,
BS'ing, or any way other than actually snowboarding. |
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Q |
| Quarter Pipe - A type of snowboarding terrian
feature that resembles the shape of one side of a
halfpipe. May be natural or man-made. A
re-entry hit found in a park. |
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| Rail-slide - A trick adopted from
skateboarding where the snowboarder slides the bottom of
the board (base) along an object, typically a metal pipe
or wooden beam. |
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Regular Foot - The riding orientation wherein one
goes with the left foot forward. |
| Roller - A terrain feature that has a rolling
shape and where exists a possibility to launch for air. |
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S |
| Shred - To tear down the slopes of a mt. at a
screamin fast pace. Carve hard and low, slice snow, rip
pow apart. The art of snowboarding with hyper mondo mega
ultra skills! |
| Skating - The act/art of riding your
snowboard with your back foot out of the binding. This
is essential for loading/unloading from chair lifts as
well as getting around flat areas. (Contributed
by: Sal) |
| Sketch - When your bro's
leave you hangn' or when something is not right. |
| Snowboarding
- a board-sport on snow similar to skiing, but came
about as an idea for a combination of surfing and
skateboarding. The first snowboard was invented by
Sherman Poppin. The device (called the Snurfer)
was a toy for his kids to use to slide down the sand
dunes on the shores of Lake Michigan. Later, the
modern snowboard was created by Jake Burton.
Snowboarding is an increasingly common winter sport
throughout the world where participants strap a
composite board to their feet and slide down a
snow-covered mountain. A snowboarder's equipment
consists of: snowboard, boots, bindings, and winter
clothing. |
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Side-cut - The hourglass shape of the sides of a
snowboard where the waist is narrower then the ends.
This aids carving and turn initiation. |
| Steezy - A combo term of "style"
and "easy". For example, "Did you see dat bra?
Dudes slide was like sich steezy!" |
| Stellar - Something that is
really great like "stellar blue-bird weather" or
"Stellar pow run". |
| Stomp Pad - A fixture stuck
onto one's board between the bindings to aide in grip
for the back foot while skating/gliding. |
| Switch
- Riding down the slope with your dominant foot as the
back foot. For example, if you are regular-footed your
right foot will be your front foot, and left if you are
goofy-footed. Also known as riding "fakie".
(Contributed by: Sal) |
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| Tail - The the portion of the trailing end of
the snowboard that turns upward. |
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Tailbone Slammer - A wipe-out wherein one falls
backwards and lands on a hard packed surface resulting
in injuring or bruising of the tailbone. Also, if
you order one of these at the resort bar you may receive
a very potent drink! |
| Tip - The portion of the leading end of the
snowboard that is turned upward. Also, snowboard
instructors like to receive these. |
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Toe-side - A turn or other maneuver whereas
the rider performs while balancing over the edge of the
snowboard that is in front of or on the side of the toes
(as opposed to heel-side). |
| Tweak - Usually a term when a grab is done
for when the rider pushes the trick beyond the means. ie
when you do a nose grab and you push the tail out to the
side, the tail is then "tweeked." Other variations for
the word come around too. |
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| Wipe-out - To crash. |
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| Yard Sale - A really hard crash (wipe-out)
will result in gear being strewn about the hillside.
This may include goggles, gloves or mitts, hats, neck
gators, etc... Skiers have bigger yard sales than
snowboarders due to their having poles and releasable
bindings. |
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