| ABS |
Acrylonitrite
Butadiene Styrene (Plastic used as snowboard topsheet) |
| Aerial maneuvers |
method, stale
fish, japan, ollie, revert, sidekick, heel/toe-edge grab, mute, crail,
nose/tail grab, nuclear, rocket, 180-to-fakie, roast beef, slob air,
canadian bacon, alley oop, two/one handed invert, j-tear,... |
| All-around, All-mountain,
All-terrain, Free-riding, Free-style, Alpine, Race, Half-pipe |
Types of equipment
and riding styles, see the board equipment section for details. |
| Base |
The P-tex bottom
of the board. |
| Baseless Binding |
A type of high-back
binding which has no base. The rider's boots contact the board directly
on the top sheet. The bindings are secured via holes on the outside
of the binding, not under the feet. Some advantages might be lighter
weight, more natural board flex, and less distance between the rider's
feet and the board. Predominately used by freestyle riders. |
| Bevel Plate/Wedge |
A shim placed
under the binding to raise the heel relative to the toe. |
| Bladder and shell |
most ski and
snowboard boots are made of a supportive exterior shell and a removable
interior bladder. The shell is closed with buckles or laces. The bladder
may or may not have laces but normally has a tongue |
| Bonk |
To tap something
as the boarder flies over it. Ski resorts don't like boarders to bonk
trash cans, picnic tables, or skiers. |
| Butt plant |
corollary to
face plant. |
| Camber |
The built in
curvature of a board, which can be seen as a space between the board
and a table when the board is laid flat on a table; can be curved
up like skis or down (rockered). |
| Cant Plate/Wedge |
A shim placed
under the binding to angle the foot towards the rider. |
| Carve |
Turning using
weight shifting and without skidding |
| Core |
The material
the inside of the board is made of. |
| CSF |
Canadian Snowboard
Federation |
| Duck-Stance |
A duck-footed
stance where the feet are splayed outward, used for free-styling. |
| Effective edge/Contact
edge |
The length of
edge which contacts the snow, or applies pressure, during a turn. |
| Face plant |
Falling on one's
face. |
| Fakie |
Riding backwards,
this term can not be applied to a totally symmetrical board with a
centered stance where the feet are perpendicular to the edges, normally
the feet are angled towards the nose of the board. |
| Fall line |
The most direct
line down a slope, the line a ball would follow if rolled down the
hill. |
| Goofy/regular
footed |
Right foot towards
the nose is goofy, left is regular. About half of all boarders ride
goofy. Same terminology applies to skateboarding and surfing. |
| Grab |
Any aerial maneuver
where the board is grabbed by either or both hands. |
| Half-pipe |
A trough cut
into or built up with snow, term originates from skateboarding. |
| Heel edge |
Opposite edge
of the toe edge. |
| High-back binding |
Generally used
with soft or soft step-in boots, see equipment section. |
| Inserts |
Two methods exist
to secure bindings to a board. An insert is a nut built into the board
and a machine screw is then used to secure the binding. A big advantage
of this method is the ease of moving the bindings, you don't have
to have a shop do it and the odds of a screw-up are low. |
| Jib |
To ride on something
other than snow, like logs, cars, hand rails, skiers, etc. |
| Leash |
A safety strap
for the case where the buckles of the binding accidentally release,
required at most ski areas. Also used to keep the board secured to
the leg while hiking with the board or while putting it on or taking
it off. |
| Newbie |
A novice, someone
new to a thing. |
| New-school |
Newer more recent
riding techniques, equipment, and equipment set-ups. These include
very wide centered stances, short boards, and baggy clothes. New-school
is generally only freestyle type riding since the equipment and stances
preclude other types of riding. |
| Nose or tip |
That end of the
board that the feet are angled towards. |
| Old-school |
The techniques
and equipment set-ups originated in the 80's. |
| P-tex |
Brand name of
polyethylene used for the snowboard base material. |
| Plate binding |
Used with hard
shell boots, see equipment section. |
| PSIA |
Professional
Ski Instructors of America |
| Rail |
Side edge of
a snowboard. |
| Retention Plate |
The other method
of securing bindings is like ski bindings, a sheet metal screw is
used after tapping a hole into the board. It is referred to as plate
retention because a metal plate is built into the board where the
board will be tapped. Not used in boards made after about 1996. |
| Side-cut |
The curvature
of the edge towards the center of the board described by the radius
of the arc of that curve. |
| Shin-strap |
Optional binding
strap on the high-back portion of a high-back binding, aids in applying
edge pressure in toe-side turns. |
| Shred |
Rip, jam, do
way good snowboarding. |
| Shredder |
One who shreds |
| Sideslip |
To slide or skid
down a hill with the board perpendicular to the fall line. |
| Skate |
To propel yourself
by pushing with the rear foot which is out of the binding while the
front foot is still attached. |
| Slope style |
Freestyle, generally
refers to tricks not done in the park and pipe. |
| Soft binding |
Same as a high-back
binding. |
| Stance |
Refers to the
position of the feet on the board. |
| Stomp or Skid
pad |
A pad attached
to the board between the bindings where the rear foot can be set when
its not in the binding. |
| Switch stance |
A boarding stance
in which the nose and tail are indistinguishable, there is no fakie,
no forwards or backwards. |
| Symmetrical/asymmetrical |
Refers to board
design, see equipment section. |
| Tail |
Back of the board. |
| Toe edge |
That edge of
the board the rider faces. |
| Top Sheet |
The top layer
of a laminated board, normally contains the graphics, the top layer
of the board which can be touched. |
| Tweak |
To become as
distorted as possible. |
| Twintip |
A board which
is symetrical front to back, can be ridden in either direction. See
Switch stance. |
| Wall |
Vertical section
of a half-pipe. |
| 3D |
Burton's 3 hole
pattern of binding mounting. Each binding is secured by 3 screws.
There are four different positions or settings of 3 holes for each
binding. This allows easy stance adjustment. The 3D hole binding also
is mounted on a disk that rotates for angle adjustment. 3D is only
used by Burton, but an adapter is available to allow for 3D bindings
to be used on the 4x4 hole pattern. |
| 4x4 |
F2 originated
4 hole pattern of binding mounting. Each binding is secured by 4 screws.
This allows easy stance adjustment. The 4x4 binding also is mounted
on a disk that rotates for angle adjustment. A majority of non-Burton
boards and bindings use the 4x4 pattern. Some 4X4 bindings can be
mounted on the Burton 3D pattern without modification.
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