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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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Snowboarding

crooked cop

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a free-riding version of the mosquito air trick.

crossbone method

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarder uses their front hand to grab the snowboards heel edge, their legs are boned, and then the board is pulled to level of the snowboarders head.

frontside handplant

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a 180-degree handplant where the snowboarders front hand is planted on the lip of the wall of the half-pipe.

frontside rotation

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder rotates in the direction of their front heel.

frontside wall

Sports; Snowboarding

This is the wall a snowboarder faces when riding straight down a half-pipe.

gap jump

Sports; Snowboarding

Simply a jump that has a void between the takeoff and landing areas.

garland

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder turns to one side only, with downhill skidding, across the fall line. The resulting trail looks like a garland.

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