'He busted a huge air over that tree.'Ī halfpipe trick which begins fakie, spins 360 degrees, and lands riding forward. Invented by Todd Richards.Ī term used the same as the verb 'to do' only with more emphasis. One approaches the backside wall riding fakie, rotates 180 degrees in the air, and then reenters the pipe while doing a McTwist. 'He boosted ten feet out of the halfpipe.'Ī halfpipe trick in which the rider performs a switch 180 to late McTwist. A tail bonk could be hitting a picnic table with the tail of the snowboard).Ī term used to describe catching air off of a jump. The act of hitting a no-snow object with the snowboard (e.g. To 'Bone' means to straighten one or both legs. In other words, if someone 'boned out a method' they would grab hard and create an emphasis of the maneuver such that his/her legs or arms may appear extended or stretched to a maximum degree. Racers run head to head, usually in heats of four or six, over various jumps and banked turns.Ī term used to explain the emphasis of style in a trick. It is a snowboarding version of a Motocross. A backside alley oop air in the halfpipe is often harder than a frontside alley oop air because it is blindside).Ī race course in which gates have been set up through an obstacle course. Such a technique usually increases the difficulty. Snowboards used for racing and carving should have a greater bevel than say a snowboard used in the halfpipe.Ī term given to any rotation where the snowboarder has oriented themselves 'blind' to their takeoff or landing and must stretch to look over their shoulder.

The degree of angle to which the edges of a snowboard are tuned. 'It's pretty beat that we have to shape the pipe all day.' Other say it's a silly sales gimmick.Ī term used to describe something that is not good. Some people say it gives them a better 'feeling' of the snow and terrain beneath the board hence, better control. Thus, one's boots are in direct contact with the top of the snowboard and are as close to the snow as possible. Originated at Mount Baker, Washington where the course is set through a ravine. 'He bailed and landed on his head.'Ī slalom race course in which the turns around the gates are set up on snow banks. If you ride straight down the pipe the backside wall is the wall that your back faces.Ī term used to describe crashing or falling. clockwise for a regular-footer, and counter-clockwise for a goofy-footer. The backside of the snowboard is the side where the heels rest and the backside of the snowboarder is the side to which his/her back faces.Īny air performed on the backside wall of the halfpipe.Ī rotation in which your back the first thing to cross the vector in which you're traveling. In shifted asymmetrical sidecut boards the center of the heel sidecut radius is shifted farther back than the toe side radius in order to compensate for the center of weight distribution which differs between toe and heel edges. Snowboard sidecut design in which the toe edge and heel edge have different sidecut radii. Since there is no such thing as Nordic or cross-country snowboarding it is not used to describe snowboarding in general.Ī rear handed backside handplant with a front handed grab. This term is most often used to describe riding a directional carving board with hardboots and plate bindings. Any trick in the halfpipe where the wall is approached riding forwards, no rotation is made, and the snowboarder lands riding backwards.Ī term used to describe any maneuver in the halfpipe where one rotates 180 or more degrees in an uphill direction that is, rotating backside on the frontside wall or rotating frontside on the backside wall.

Snowboarding lingo