Snowboarding

Snowboarding attracts millions of people every year. Snowboarding can be done year round throughout the world but most locations do not offer the correct conditions all year. Snowboarding is an alternative to skiing and is also similar “in practice” to skateboarding and surfing. With a snowboard, the rider’s feet are strapped to the board with bindings. Special boots are used to safely attach the rider to the bindings and the board. Lifts are used to get individuals to the top of the mountain or hill. Climbing up the mountain each time is possible but very tiring. Lifts provide skiers and snowboarders hours of additional enjoyment in the time and energy they save.

Styles:
Riding styles include free riding, freestyle, free carve, and jibbing. Stunts and tricks are performed to enhance the sport.

Tricks:

Grabs:
1 2, A B, Beef Carpaccio, Beef Curtains, Bloody Dracula, Cannonball (UFO), Chicken Salad, China Air (West Coast), Korean Air (East Coast), Crail, Cross Rocket, Cross Pop, Frontside Grab, Frontside Indy, Goomba, Japan Air, Lien Air, Melanocholy, Melon, Method, Mindy (Gorilla), Mindy Super, Mule Kick, Mute, Nosegrab, Nuclear, Perfect, Roast Beef, Rocket Air, Pop Air, School Grab, Seatbelt, Slob, Stalefish, Steak Tar Tar, Swiss Cheese Air, Tailfish, Tailgrab, Taipan Air, Tindy, Truck Driver (backside), Truck Driver (frontside)

Flips & Inverted Rotations:
Back Flip, Backside Rodeo Flip (Brodeo), Chicane, Doublechuk, Front Flip, Haakon Flip, Helicopter Flip, Lando Roll, McTwist, Michalchuk, Misty Flip, Ninety Roll, Rodeo Flid (Frontside Rodeo), Rippey Flip, Sato Flip, Tamedog, Wet Cat, Wildcat and Wolf Flip.

Straight Airs:
Air to Fakie, Fakie Ollie, Flail, Nollie, Ollie, Poptart, Shifty, and Switch Ollie

Inverted Hand Plants:
Andrecht, Eggflip, Eggplant, Elguerial, Fresh, Handplant, J-Tear, Layback, Killer Stand, McEgg, Miller Flip, Sad Plant, The Lamp

Slides:
50-50, Blunt side, Boardslide, Freebie, Lipslide, MJ, Nose Blunt, Nose Press, Nose Slide, Smith, Tail Press, and Tail Slide.

Stalls:
Board Stall (Disaster), Blunt Stall, Nose Block, Nose Pick, Nose Stall, Tail Block, and Tail Stall

Tweaks:
One Footed, Poke, Shifty, Stiffy, Stink Bug, Tuck Knee, and Tweak.

Various:
Butter, Danish (Bagel), Disaster, Jib (Bonk), Manual (Nose Manual), Penguin Walk, Pretzel, Revert, Tail Roll (Nose Roll), and Tail (Suicide or Tap Off).

Competitions:
Competitions take place often during the snowboarding season. Types of competitions include slopestyle, big air, half-pipe, boarder-cross, big mountain, free ride, rail jam, and racing. The Winter Olympics also hosts many types of snowboarding competitions which began in 1998. A few well known competitions include the XGames, Burton Global Open Series, and Air & Style. So grab a board this winter and quench your thirst for adrenaline.