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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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Tail-bone

Sports; Snowboarding

A snowboarders jumps with their rear leg straight and their front leg flexed.

Aerial

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a flip that is done off the wall of a half-pipe.

Tweaked tail grabs

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarder approaches the jump and then ollie high and they bring their back arm back to reach the tail of their board. They then grab down and turn into a 90-degree turn. When they start to ...

Toe overhang/drag

Sports; Snowboarding

This is drag caused when a snowboarder allows their toes to hang over the edge of the snowboard and drag in the snow.

Toeside turn

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder makes a turn on their toeside edge.

Transition (tranny)

Sports; Snowboarding

That area that is the radial curved section of a half-pipe wall that is between the flat bottom and the vertical wall.

Rolling down the windows

Sports; Snowboarding

A descriptive term for when a snowboarder is off-balance and they madly rotate their arms trying to recover.

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