Snowboarding

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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Vertical (vert)

Sports; Snowboarding

This is the vertical top portion of a wall in a half-pipe.

Traversing

Sports; Snowboarding

Riding perpendicular to the fall line. That is crossing the hill by edging sideways with the body facing in the direction the snowboarder wants to go.

(1) This is where the heels on a snowboard are. This is also the area behind the snowboarders back in the half-pipe or when a snowboarder is doing a trick off a wall. (2) This is any trick which gets ...

Air

Sports; Snowboarding

Describes a jump where the snowboarder is able to get into the air and off the ground.

Twin tip

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboards nose and tail are shaped just alike.

Backside hand-plant

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a 180-degree hand-plant where the snowboarder has their back or rear hand or both hands placed on the lip of the wall and then does a backside rotation.