snowboardology
snowboardology - snowboarding terms and snowboarding slang
Here are a few snowboarding terms and sayings and slang so you don't feel out of place on the snow. I am sure there are loads more but this is all we have heard of.
- Bail - falling over
- Bone - when a snowboarder straightens one or both legs during a half-pipe trick
- Bullet Proof - when the conditions are icey and hard
- Booter - a big jump where you need lots of speed and you get launch into the air
- C-Rail - a rail with a bend to it
- Cat-Track - a run going across to another run
- Crud - This is a type of snow with uneven surface and lumps of soft powder-like snow and slippery patches
- Dailed - to be able to do a trick prefectly time after time
- Duckfoot - Stance with toes pointing outwards
- Fakie - Riding a board backwards
- Flat bottom - The space in the half-pipe between the two walls
- Frostbite - Occurring when parts of the body are exposed to extreme cold for a period of time
- Goofy foot - Riding with the right foot forwards
- Phat - cool
- Hip - a big jump where you have to go off the front side and can land only on one side
- Hypothermia - A life - threatening condition where the body temperature of the person drops dramatically below normal
- Jib - a rail
- Kink - a bend in a rail or box
- Poptart - tricky half-pipe aerial turn where the snowboarder goes up the wall riding
- Powder - Light, ungroomed snow
- Quarter Pipe - half a half pipe, one wall where you can get a good speed to get ito the air
- Rodeo - backflip with a spin
- S-Rail - a rail with a bend to it, so if you look from the top it looks like a S
- Sick - really cool
- Slush - Usually this is snow that is starting to melt gradually becoming wetter
- Stiffy air - A half-pipe aerial turn where a rider straightens both legs and grabs the snowboard's edge
- Taipan air - a rider reaches behind the front foot in this half-pipe aerial turn and grabs the toe edge then bends the front knee to touch the board
- Tight - sweet
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