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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Smith grind

Sports; Snowboarding

A trick done on the lip where the rider slides with the coping perpendicular to the snowboard. The snowboarders' front leg is boned and the snowboards nose is below the coping, and the tail is above.

Snake

Sports; Snowboarding

The name for a person who cuts in front of people in the lift line or drops in front of people in the half-pipe.

Snurfer

Sports; Snowboarding

The name for the very first type of snowboard that had no bindings or edges and that had a rope attached to the nose that a rider could hold onto.

Soft boots

Sports; Snowboarding

These are boots that are flexible, unlike Hard Boots, and they provide the snowboarder with support but also with motion. This type of boot is used in freestyle and freeride snowboarding.

Spaghetti air grab

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarders rear hand reaches between their legs and behind the front leg to grab the toe edge in front of the front foot and then they bend their knees and arch their back as far as possible.

Spine

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a sculpted jump made out of snow that has two walls running parallel that come together to form a spine, where a snowboarder can perform tricks.