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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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Snowboarding

andrecht

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder does a hand-plant (does a handstand with one or both hands) with their back or rear hand while at the same time they grab their snowboard with their front hand.

waist

Sports; Snowboarding

This is the narrowest part of a snowboard, which is in the middle of the board.

bail

Sports; Snowboarding

1) The name of a clip on a plate binding. 2) When a rider decides they can't make a maneuver and intentionally pull out of it and they usually fall.

asymmetrical board

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a snowboard that has non-matching sides and is designed for regular or goofy stance.

wall

Sports; Snowboarding

There are two walls that make up the vertical sections of a half-pipe.

banked slalom

Sports; Snowboarding

A type of slalom racecourse where the all the gate turns are on snow banks.

asymmetrical sidecut

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a snowboard that has a different size sidecut on either side. On a shifted asymmetrical sidecut snowboard, the center of the heel-side radius will be shifted back farther than it would be on ...

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