So, you want to get into snowboarding, but you don't know the "lingo" so that you can keep up with all of your friends.
Well, here is a list of terms that you will want to know so that you too can talk snowboarding.
· Backside: the side of the skateboard where your heels are.
When referring to the backside, it means to the back of the snowboarder, as in having to look over your shoulder.
· Baseless Bindings: Your feet will actually be set the board; there are no metal base plates to set your feet on.
· Blindside: Basically the backside.
The side of the snowboarder that is "blind" to them.
Again, having to look over your shoulder.
· Bonk: This is where you hit an object with your board as in bumping it and then continuing on with the course.
· Boost: Catching air with a jump.
· Bust: Slang for "to do" as in, "check him out, busting out this trick.
" · Camber: The space, when the board is lying flat on the surface, that is located between the ground and the front and back parts of the snowboard.
· Cant: the angle at which your feet are pointing.
It could be either duck footed or pigeon toed.
This determines how your knees will be bent.
· Chatter: The vibration of the board when riding, usually resulting from high speeds, tight turns or icy conditions.
· Corduroy: Tracks that are left by the Snowcat.
The tracks make the turns easier.
· Dampening: Reducing the vibration to help the board with handling.
· Delaminate: Where the snowboards layers begin to come apart.
Usually happens because of a defect in the board, crash or long term usage.
· Duckfoot: When your toes are pointing outward on the board.
· Effective edge: the edge of the metal edge on the board.
You always turn so that the effective edge is what you are using.
· Fakie: backwards riding.
Riding in the opposing direction than what you normally would.
· Fall Line: the gravity of the slope.
How the gravity pulls you down the slope.
· Freeriding: Snowboarding for fun only.
· Frontside: the side of the board where your toes are located.
· Grab: whenever you grab your snowboard with one or both hands during air or a trick.
· Half-pipe: usually built with snow.
It's a vertical U-shaped mound, like a wave for surfboarders, which you can use to perform tricks and stunts.
· Heel Edge: the side of the snowboard where your heels sit.
· Heel side turn: a turn made on the heel side of the board.
· Ollie: Whenever you lift your front foot to get air, spring off of your back foot to where the board is in the air completely.
(borrowed term from skateboarding) · Tail: the end of the board that is closest to your back foot.
· Toe side turn: a turn that you make on the toe side edge of the board.
At least now you have some of the "lingo" that will help you to keep up with this sport and your friends!