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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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Inverted 720 (720 McTwist)

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarder comes up to the wall riding forward, they then go airborne, rotating 720-degrees in a backside direction with a front flip. They land riding fakie.

Jam Session Half-Pipe Competition

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a competition where all of the riders are performing in the half-pipe at the same time.

Cruiser run

Sports; Snowboarding

Describes an easy or a fast run on a smooth slope.

Crust

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a hard layer of snow that is on top of soft snow.

Dampening

Sports; Snowboarding

To reduce the vibration of a snowboard. This helps the snowboarder in handling the snowboard at high speeds.

Delaminate

Sports; Snowboarding

When the fibreglass layers of a snowboard start to come apart.

Dendex

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a plastic material that dry slopes are made out of. (See Dry Slope)

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