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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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Jam Session Half-Pipe Competition

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a competition where all of the riders are performing in the half-pipe at the same time.

Japan Air

Sports; Snowboarding

This is an aerial maneuver where the snowboarder grabs the toe edge in-between their bindings with their front hand and their front knee pulled into the board.

J-Tear

Sports; Snowboarding

This is an invert that is rotated about 540 degrees in a frontside direction while the snowboarder has one or both hands on the lip of the wall.

Palmer

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarder grabs near the nose and pulls the board across the front of the body, pointing the nose downward.

Phillips 66

Sports; Snowboarding

The snow boarder comes up to the half-pipe wall riding fakie, places their rear hand on the lip of the wall where they do a front flip and then they land in the transition riding forward.

Pipe Dragon

Sports; Snowboarding

The name of the grooming machine that shapes the walls of a half-pipe.

P-Tex

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a plastic material that is used to repair the base of both skis and snowboards.

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