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Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive sport where the participant rides a board down a snow slope. The sport is involved in the winter olympics in several different specialized forms.

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effective edge

Sports; Snowboarding

This describes the amount of snowboard edge that is in contact with the snow and the amount of edge that is used to make a turn.

egg flip

Sports; Snowboarding

A trick where the snowboarder flips over as opposed to rotating 180 degrees to reenter the pipe.

eggplant

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a 180-degree backside rotated invert with the snowboarder places their front-hand on the lip of the half-pipe wall.

elgeurial

Sports; Snowboarding

This is an invert where the halfpipe wall is approached fakie, the rear hand is planted and a 360-degree backside rotation is executed and the rider lands going forward.

face plant

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder falls on their face. Self-explanatory really.

fakie

Sports; Snowboarding

Backwards. So "riding fakie" is riding backwards.

fall line

Sports; Snowboarding

The direction gravity pulls a snowboarder when they are going down a slope.

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