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Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive sport where the participant rides a board down a snow slope. The sport is involved in the winter olympics in several different specialized forms.

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Snowboarding

J-Tear

Sports; Snowboarding

This is an invert that is rotated about 540 degrees in a frontside direction while the snowboarder has one or both hands on the lip of the wall.

Palmer

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarder grabs near the nose and pulls the board across the front of the body, pointing the nose downward.

Phillips 66

Sports; Snowboarding

The snow boarder comes up to the half-pipe wall riding fakie, places their rear hand on the lip of the wall where they do a front flip and then they land in the transition riding forward.

Pipe Dragon

Sports; Snowboarding

The name of the grooming machine that shapes the walls of a half-pipe.

P-Tex

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a plastic material that is used to repair the base of both skis and snowboards.

Cliff drops

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder deliberately rides their snowboard off a cliff to become airborne.

Contact point

Sports; Snowboarding

That part of the snowboard that is in contact with the snow.

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