| S-V |
| Word |
Definition |
| Sad plant |
A term used to describe any handplant where the front leg is boned for style. |
| Sandwich construction |
Layers of materials, on top of each other, with additional components for sidewall strength and torisional flex patterning. Used to construct a board with different layers of materials on top of each other. |
| Sato flip |
Halfpipe trick done by Rob Kingwill (Sato - Japanese for "sugar" ). Kind of like a frontside McTwist. Rider drops in fast, riders up the transition as if doing frontside 540, pops in the air and grabs frontside, then throws head, shoulders, and hips downs |
| Scream |
A really steep hill. |
| Seabelt |
The frontside reaches across the body and grabs the tail while the front leg is boned. |
| Session |
A period of skating. |
| Shifty |
A grabless trick where the upper torso and lower body are twisted in opposite directions and then returned to normal. |
| Shovel |
The lifted or upward curved sections of a snowboard at the tip and tail. |
| Sick |
Big, crazy, cool, incredibly difficult. |
| Side cut |
The curve built into the sidewalls and edges of a board to enhance turning characteristics. To create a curve on the turning surface that is characteristic of the boards riding style. |
| Side wall |
The area between the topsheet and the base, and above the edges on a snowboard. Holds the core and other materials from shifting during the manufacturing process, and to protect them as a finished product.
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| Sintered base |
A form of polymer plastic that is compress into a long shape, set on a roller and sliced into sheets of base material. A slightly harder more porous from of base material used on performance snowboards. |
| sketching |
The act of riding along precariously and near falling. |
| Sky |
When a rider gets big air. |
| Slalom |
A form of Alpine racing in which the racer must run a course designated by a series of gates set in various combination as to test technique, speed, and agility. Failure to pass through the gate properly results in disqualification. |
| Slide |
What a rider does when he "slides" across a handrail or mailbox, etc. |
| Slob air |
The frontside air where the front hand grabs mute, the back leg is boned and the board is kept parallel with the ground. |
| Spine ramp |
Two half pipes placed back to back creating a double U shape. |
| Spring planting |
A face plant. |
| Stale egg |
An eggplant with a stalefish grab. |
| Stalemasky air |
When a maneuver is performed such that the point of emphasis in the maneuver is held or "stalled" for an extended period of time. |
| Stalled |
When a maneuver is intentionally started late into a jump/trick |
| Stance |
The position of one's feet on the ground. |
| Stick |
To land a jump cleanly. |
| Stiffy air |
Any maneuver in which both legs are boned and a grab is incorporated. |
| Stinky |
Riding with the legs spread open. |
| Stoked |
Describes riders when they are pumped up and confident. |
| Stomp |
Interchangeable with charge or stick. |
| Sublimated top sheet |
Topsheets that have had the graphics added through the sublimation process. Provides very durable graphics because they are cooked right into the plastic. |
| Sweeper |
A long, gentle curve. |
| Swiss cheese air |
The rear hand reaches between the legs and grabs the heel edge in front of the front foot while the back left is boned. |
| Switch |
Any trick where the take off or landing is backwards. |
| Switch take off |
Going into a jump backwards. |
| Symmetrical design |
When all the design components of the side cut and shape are parallel in design. The opposite of Asymmetrical. To position a rider on a board when less angulation or opposing angulation is necessary. |
| Tail |
The rear tip of the board or ski. |
| Tail bonk |
To hit an object with the tail of the snowboard. |
| Tail grab |
The rear hand grabs the tail of the snowboard. |
| Tail poke |
Any maneuver where you bone your rear leg and "poke" the tail of the snowboard in a direction away from your body usually while grabbing. |
| Tail protector/tip protector |
Usually a metal plate built into the tail or tip of the board. To protect the tail or tip from damage and to control swing weight. |
| Tail slide |
To slide along the ground or an object solely on the tail of the snowboard. |
| Tail tap |
See Tail Bonk. |
| Tail wheelie |
To ride solely on the tail of the snowboard with the nose in the air. |
| Taipan air |
The front hand reaches behind the front foot and grabs the toe edge between the bindings. The front knee is then bent to touch the board tuck knee style. |
| T-bolt |
A small metal inside threaded cylinder with a disk attached to the bottom, to prevent it from pulling up and out of the board. To repair or substitute the area of binding attachment to a board. |
| Technical |
An especially tricky, obstacle-laden section of a trail. |
| Toe edge |
A snowboard has two different edges. The toe edge is the one at which the toes rest. |
| Toeside |
The frontside of the board is the side where the toes rest. And the frontside of the board is the side to which his/her chest faces. |
| Toeside rotation |
Rotating counter-clockwise for a regular footer, and rotating clockwise for a goofy footer. |
| Top sheet |
Usually a form of flexible plastic that sits on top of the laminated or foam core. Also the material that is used as the cap in Monocoque Construction. To protect the core materials of the boards, and to act as a material for graphics applications. |
| Torsion box construction |
When the core material is fully wrapped with a strength enhancing material like fiberglass. To manipulate the flex and torsional rigidity of a snowboard from the core construction. |
| Torsional flex |
The actual resistance to twisting a boards from side to side. To define the flex of a board from side to side. Its resistance to twisting and its responsiveness to initiating a turn and hold an edge. |
| Transition |
The curved part of the terrain between 0 and 90 degrees. |
| Transition (tranny) |
The radial curved section of a halfpipe wall between the flat bottom and the vertical. A snowboarder pumps and rides the transition to gain speed, catch air, and land. |
| Traverse |
To ride perpendicular to the fall line. Halfpipe rider traverses from wall to wall in the halfpipe. |
| Tuck knee |
A technique where one knee is bent, and the ankle is bent sideways in order to touch the knee to the snowboard between the bindings. |
| Tweaked |
A term used to describe the emphasis of style in a trick. |
| Twin tip |
A type of snowboard designed for freestyle snowboarding. It has an identical tip and tail so that the board may be ridden similarly in both directions. |
| Variable flex |
When the tip, tail and middle of a board each have varying degrees of flex. To vary the overall flex of a board from the tip to the middle to the tail. |
| Variable radius |
A side cut design that incorporates a changing radius size along the length of the board. To adjust a side cut design of a board by using many intersecting radius sizes, to enhance its turning characteristics. |
| Vertical |
The vertical top portion of a wall in a halfpipe which allows the snowboarder to fly straight up into the air and not' out of the pipe or into the pipe. |
| Vertically laminated wood core |
Pretty much the industry standard. Strips of wood ranging from 1/8" to 3/4" are bonded together side to side with the joints running vertical. This allows for several different woods to be used in each core to optimize performance characteristics. |
| Vultures |
Crowds who gather at particularly dangerous sections of a competition. |
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