Snowboard Terms
Ok to understand snowboarding you have to learn a few snowboard terms that are crucial slang of the sport. We have made a dictionary of terms, tricks and slang. Hope you guys find it useful and brings a smile to your face.
Snowboard Terms:
Backside-The backside is where your heels sit. Your backside is the side to which your back faces.
Blindside- Landing or rotating blind, not being able to see your landing.
Bone - Straightening one or both legs during a trick
BoarderCross- Snowboarders race through turns and jumps. 4-6 riders at the same time.
Bonk-To hit an object with your snowboard, bounce off of it and keep riding
Boost-To get air after jumping jump.
Booter - Jump
Butter - A trick done by flexing on either the nose or tail of your board.
Bust- To do
Bullet Proof - super hard snow, almost ice
Cant-The angle at which either foot points
Camber- The space beneath the center of a snowboard and the floor when it lays flat on it.
Centered stance- Distance between the nose and the front binding is the same as that between the tail and the rear binding.
Corduroy- A word to describe the snow condition after snowcat grooming. Looks like corduroy.
C-Rail - A rail shaped like a the letter C.
Cruisin'- To chill, chillin'
Chillin'- To relax
Delaminate- Separation of snowboard layers. A very bad thing.
Directional stance- Distance between the nose and front binding is longer than the distance between the tail and the rear binding.
Duckfooted - Your bindings are set so toes point out.
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Effective edge- The edge that makes contact with the snow while making turns
Fakie - Riding with your usual back leg in the front.
Flat bottom - Bottom of halfpipe, space between the walls.
Fall line- The path that takes you most directly downwards on a slope.
Flex- Stiffness of your board.
Forward Lean- The degree to which the highbacks keep your ankles and calves bent over your toes.
Freeriding- Snowboarding all over the place, Not including the park.
Freestyle snowboarding- Any riding that incorporates tricks.
Frontside- The frontside is where your toes sit. Frontside tricks are any tricks that you rotate where your face faces, this also makes where your face faces your frontside.
Frostbite - Don't want to get this. Skin or bodyparts freeze and die.
FrostNip- Before Frostbite, skin turns white, later gets swollen, red and peels.
Goofy foot-Riding with right foot forward
Grab- To grab a snowboard edge with one or both hands during a trick.
Jibtastic - cool, amazing
Hip -
Halfpipe- Two snow ramps that face each other, shape like the letter U.
Hard boots- Made with hard plastic and are very stiff. They are used for carving and racing.
Heel Drag- If bindings are not set correctly they can make your heel overhang causing problems when making turns.
Heel edge- Edge where the heels sits.
Heelside turn- A turn made with your heel edge.
Highback- Part of the binding that supports the ankle and calf while making heelside turns.
Hypothermia- body temperature drops below normal, very dangerous.
Jib- a cool small trick
Kink - a bend in a rail
Killer- Amazing
Lip- The top of the halfpipe wall.
Log Slide- A rail made out of a tree, could be natural or man made.
Nose- The front end of your snowboard.
Nollie- To jump by popping off of your nose. Just like skateboarding.
Ollie- To jump by popping off of your tail. Just like skateboarding.
Pipe Dragon-Machine used to groom the halfpipe.
Poo Stance-You look like your taking a poop because you stick your butt out when you bend your knees. Don't do it
Poach- To ride where you are not supposed to be riding. Usually out of bounds powder lines.
Poser or Hack- Someone that acts and dresses the part of something they are not.
Poptart - Airing from fakie to forward in the halfpipewithout rotation.
Powder - Light, fluffy, fresh snow.
Quarterpipe - One wall of the half pipe.
Rodeo- backflip with a spin.
Rail- Metal structure that resembles a hand rail.
Railing- To make hard and fast turns while riding.
Regular foot- Riding with the left foot forward.
Rocker- The opposite of camber, so when the snowboard is placed on a flat surface, it rests only on the center portion.
Roll down the windows- when you loose balance in the air and you move your arms as if you where rolling down the windows in an old car.
Rollout deck- Part of the halfpipe wall that serves as a walkway to the top end.
Running length- Part of bottom of board that comes in contact with the snow.
Session- Another name for a period of riding time, where you focus on specific tricks or terrain.
Skating- When you keep your front foot strapped in and kick along with your back foot.
SlopeStyle Competition- Event where riders are judged on jumps and rails only.
Soft boots- Boots used for freestyle and freeride snowboarding.
Speed check- To slow yourself down before a jump or when you don't feel comfortable with your speed.
Stance- How your bindings are set, angles, direction and distance between them
Step-in binding- Binding where you are able to just push down onto it and you are securely lashed in, highback optional, they do require special boots.
Stomp pad- A pad that gives you traction while your back foot is unstrapped, usually used when getting off the lift.
S-Rail- Rail shaped like the letter S if looked form above.
Sick- Amazing, cool
Slush- Wet snow, usually in spring.
Tail- The end of your board.
Toe edge- The edge where your toes sit.
Toeside turn- Turn made on toeside edge.
Tranny- The transition, the curve of the bottom part of the halfpipe wall.
Traverse- To ride across the fall line of a slope.
Twin tip- Snowboard with nose and tail exactly the same shape
Tight- Not used as much but it means smooth.
Vert- The topmost part of the walls of a halfpipe.
Wall- The sections that face each other in the halfpipe. A halfpipe wall has transition, vert and a lip.
Keep checking back with snowboard terms as more slang will be added.
