Snowboarding

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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bevel

Sports; Snowboarding

The angle that a snowboard's edges are set at. As an example, racing and carving snowboards have a greater bevel than a snowboard used for or on a half-pipe.

This is a competition where snowboarders are judged on how much air (height) they are able to achieve, the difficulty of the move they used to get the air, how they control themselves in the air and ...

binding

Sports; Snowboarding

This is the piece of equipment that fastens the snowboarders boot to the snowboard.

bleeper

Sports; Snowboarding

A safety device that sends out a high pitched signal if a skier or snowboarder is buried in an avalanche.

board

Sports; Snowboarding

Short for Snowboard.

blindside

Sports; Snowboarding

This refers to when a snowboarder does a rotation and is blind during takeoff or landing. This is a clockwise rotation for a regular rider and a counterclockwise rotation for a goofy rider.