| A-F |
| Word |
Definition |
| Alley-oop (2) |
A term used to describe any maneuver in the halfpipe where one rotates 180 or more degrees in the uphill direction; that is, rotating backside on the frontside wall or rotating frontside on the backside wall. |
| Alpine |
All competitive events whose basic element is down, for example: downhill, slalom, giant slalom. |
| Andrecht |
A rear handed backside handplant with a front-handed grab. |
| Backcountry |
Out of a resort area. |
| backflip |
Flipping backward off a jump. |
| Backside air |
Any air performed on the backside wall of halfpipe. |
| Backside rodeo |
Coming off a jump and turning your back down the hill, flipping 540 and landing fakie or rotating a total of 720 and landing regular. |
| Backside rotation |
Rotating clockwise for a regular-footer and rotating counter-clockwise for a goofy-footer. When riding switchstance the exact reverse applies and a regular footer will rotate counter-clockwise and a goofy footer will rotate clockwise. |
| Backside wall |
When standing at the top of the halfpipe and looking down towards the bottom, the backside wall is the left wall for regular footers and the right wall for goofy footers. If you ride straight down the center of the halfpipe, your backside wall is behind |
| Base |
A firm layer of hard-packed snow covering the bare ground. |
| Betty |
Female rider |
| Blindside |
A term given to any rotation where the rider has oriented him/herself "blind" to his/her takeoff or landing and must stretch to look over their shoulder. Such a technique usually increases the difficulty. |
| Board length |
The measurement from the tip to the tail. |
| Boned out |
A term used to explain the emphasis of style in a trick. In other words, if someone "boned out a indy" they would grab hard and create an emphasis of the maneuver such that his/her legs may appear extended or stretched to a maximum degree. |
| Bonk |
The act of hitting an object with the snowboard. |
| Breakable crust |
A condition in which the surface of the snow freezes into a crust where there is loose snow beneath it. This condition is most frequently encountered in spring and following warm temperatures, wind, sleet, or freezing rain. |
| Bullet proof |
Super hard or frozen snow. |
| Cap construction |
A form of integrated structural design that used the outermost material or skin to bear the load of strength of an object. Much like the shell of crab. To reduce weight and enhance torsional rigidity and edge responsiveness and eliminate the need for sepa |
| Carbon fiber material |
A fiber woven material produced from the mineral carbon. To stiffen and strengthen a board with a minimum of added weighted. |
| Carve |
To ride fast through corners (from skiing). |
| Cement |
Heavy snow found in coastal regions. Particularily common in the Sierra and the Northwest. |
| Chicken salad air |
The rear hand reaches behind the front leg, grabs the heel side between the bindings while the front leg is boned. Also, the wrist is rotated inwards to complete the grab. |
| Closed mold |
A mold that holds all the pre-shaped components of a board in a sealed chamber which eliminates additional shaping after pressing. To mass producer snowboards more rapidly by containing the board shape and minimizing finishing and shaping steps. |
| Coping |
A rounded lip at the top of a ramp or obstacle, usually made of metal, cement, or PVC pipe. |
| Corkscrew 540 |
Sideways backside 540, also called a barrel roll. |
| Crail air |
The rear hand grabs the toe edge in the front of the front foot while the rear leg is behind. |
| Crippler |
An inverted aerial where the rider performs a 180 degree flip. The athlete approaches the wall riding forward, becomes airborne, rotates 90 degrees, flips over in the air, rotates another 90 degrees, and lands riding forward. |
| Crud |
Varied and inconsistent snow. |
| Dialed-in |
Tuned to perfection. |
| Disaster |
A lip trick where one gets "hung up " on the coping, most often with the board perpendicular to the coping. |
| Dope |
Cool. |
| Double grab |
Basically, doing two separate tricks while in the air. One goes off of a jump, grabs the board one way, then grabs it in another way, then lands. |
| Duck Foot |
A term used to describe stance angles with toes pointing outward. |
| Edges |
The strips of metal usually made hard steel, on the outer edges of the running surface of skis or snowboards. |
| Effective edge |
The length of metal edge on the snowboards which touches the ground; it is the effective part which is used to make a turn. It does not include the edge of the tip and tail. |
| Eggflip |
An eggplant where the rider chooses to flip over in order to re-enter the pipe instead or rotating 180 degrees. This trick is performed forward to fakie or switchstance (fakie to forward). |
| Eggplant |
A one-handed 180 degree invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is backside. |
| Elgeurial (bfm) |
An invert where the halfpipe wall is approached fakie, the rear hand is planted, a 360 degree backside rotation is made, and the rider lands going forward. Named after Eddie Elguera. |
| Eurocarve |
A term used to describe a certain mode of riding in which the rider makes large and hard cutting turns; usually getting way up on the edge and leaning the body parallel to the ground. |
| Face plant |
Where one's face meets the ground before any other part of one's body. |
| Fakie |
Riding backwards. |
| Fall line |
The path of least resistance down and given slope. |
| Flat bottom |
The area in a halfpipe between the two opposing transitional walls. |
| Flatland |
Term used to describe tricks performed on the flat slope with obstacles ( e.g. nose slide, blunt slide, tail wheelie). |
| Flute |
A column of snow stacked on a terrain feature such as a rock or on a near-vertical slope. |
| Freeriding |
Snowboarding on all types of terrain for fun, no contest, no halfpipe, no gates, no rules. |
| Freestyle |
The kind of snowboarding which is mostly associated with riding the halfpipe, but may also be used to describe any type of snowboarding which includes tricks and maneuvers. |
| Fresh fish air |
The backside version of the Stale Fish. |
| Front foot |
The foot mounted closet to the nose. A regular footers left foot and a goofy footers right foot. |
| Front hand |
The hand closet to the nose of the snowboards. The left hand for regular footers and the right hand for goofy footers. |
| Frontflip |
Flipping forward off a jump. |
| Frontside air |
The trick is best described for its grab. The frontside grab is with the rear hand between the bindings on the toe edge; in this particular maneuver the front leg is boned. It can also be any air performed on the frontside wall of the halfpipe. |
| Frontside turn |
A turn where the toe edge faces to the outside of the turn while the snowboard is riding on the heel edge. A left for a regular footer and right turn for a goofy footer. |
| frontside wall |
When standing at the top of the halfpipe and looking towards the bottom, the frontside wall is the wall you would go up toeside. |
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