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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
    [more information]
  • 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 [more information]
  • 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 [more information]
  • 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 [more information]
  • 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 [more information]
  • 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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