Snowboarding lingo
As a normal rule, curling commentators clarify each rule of the sport on each shot. Snowboard commentators, then again, will bust out descriptions like “bottom 900 swap melon teakettle coffeepot wingdings” with scant particulars on what which means.
So let’s take a crash course, drawing closely on this wonderful video by Snowboard Dependancy.
Stances
Common means your left foot is main. Goofy means proper.
Spin instructions
Bottom: If you’ve gone 90 levels, your bottom is dealing with down the hill.
Frontside: The opposite approach.
You’ll additionally hear phrases referring to what number of levels somebody has turned. As we would bear in mind from geometry class, a circle has 360 levels, so a “360” is one revolution. A 720 is 2. A 900 is 2 and a half, and so forth.
Should you favor determine skating phrases, a 1440 is a quad. A 1260 is a triple axel. Acquired it?
Swap implies that the rider finally ends up switching stances when the flippy/spinny is finished. In different phrases, somebody may do a 540 beginning out common (see above) and find yourself goofy (additionally see above). I’m unsure about this, however I might assume “swap” implies a half revolution is concerned — a 180, 540, 900, and so forth. I’d assume {that a} 720 swap would imply one thing has gone horribly incorrect.
As a substitute of “swap,” you may hear fakie, which suggests one thing barely completely different to a skateboarder as a result of their ft aren’t certain to the board. Snowboard commentators prefer to sound cool, in order that they’ll most likely say “fakie.”
Spin sorts
Rotation means your physique and board rotate the identical approach.
Counterrotation means your physique and board rotate in reverse instructions.
A double cork is extra flipping than spinning, inverting one’s shoulder twice within the air.
A hospital is the place I might go if I attempted any of these items.
Grabs
Judges additionally prefer to see cool methods to seize onto the board within the air, although the bindings make such feats pointless.
Nostril and tail are self-explanatory.
Grabs with the entrance hand embody nostril, mute (simply contained in the rider’s toe), melon (simply contained in the heel) and seatbelt (nearly to the tail, so the arm goes throughout the physique like a seatbelt).
Grabs with the rear hand embody tail, indy (contained in the toe), stalefish (contained in the heel) and crail (reverse seatbelt).
If riders wish to attain by way of their legs, they’ve all types of non-vegetarian phrases like rooster salad, roast beef and Canadian bacon.
You’ll have to take a look at this explainer for photos and all the opposite oddities.
A technique seize must be seen to be described, however simply keep in mind that Lindsey Jacobellis did it in 2006 in Torino, sadly on the finish of a snowboardcross closing she was main. She fell and wound up taking silver. Jacobellis continues to be chasing that elusive gold in her fifth Olympics, however she will all the time be blissful about her six (6) world championships. Anyway, again to slopestyle …
Strategy to rails and different terrain
Bottom and frontside are additionally used on this context. In case your again is closest to the rail, it’s a bottom strategy.
What you do on a rail
50-50 is an easy journey alongside the rail like a practice on a … effectively, on a rail.
Throughout a 50-50, a rider might do a nosepress or a tailpress, which aren’t weightlifting phrases however references to only one a part of the board being in touch with the rail. So, mainly, a tailpress is a wheelie, with out your mother yelling at you to give up doing tips in your bike as a result of your mother didn’t foresee the invention of freestyle BMX competitors.
A boardslide is a perpendicular journey alongside the rail by which the entrance of the board goes over the rail first. It may be entrance or again.
A lipslide means the tail goes first.
A noseslide or tailslide means the rider is perpendicular to the rail, however solely the nostril or tail is touching.
A bluntslide apparently has nothing to do with passing a drug take a look at. As a substitute, it means the rider jumped nearly all the way in which over the rail however landed on the tail.
Dismounting
A pretzel is what occurs whenever you’re dismounting from the rail and spin 270 levels within the different course.
A sameway, a bagel or a danish is whenever you land the identical approach.
Ouch is what you say whenever you land as Switzerland’s Ariane Burri did after wanting uncomfortable within the air after taking off from the complicated characteristic generally known as Twisted Sister.
The USA’s Hailey Langland additionally crashed, overrotating a 720. (Spinning an excessive amount of.)
This competitors is three runs, with solely the very best run counting.