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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

boots

Sports; Snowboarding

There are two types of boots. There are soft and hard boots. Hard boots are used in racing while soft boots are used when performing tricks.

bumps

Sports; Snowboarding

These are snow mounds or moguls.

burger flip

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a half-pipe trick where the rider will go into the backside wall riding fakie, then they will rotate 180 degrees in the air, and then they re-enter the pipe doing a McTwist.

caballerial (cab)

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a trick where the snowboarder starts a fakie, then they spin 360 degrees, and then lands in the original stance.

camber

Sports; Snowboarding

This is the shape, the curved shape that is built into a snowboard. This is easy to see, because when a snowboard is laid on a flat surface, the tip and tail will touch the surface but the center is ...

cant

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a reference to the angle of the feet, side-to-side, which will either have the snowboarders knees in an inward or outward position.

carve

Sports; Snowboarding

When a turn is made using the edge of the snowboard.

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