Snowboard Tricks - Inverts & Slides

prodech — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:28:18 GMT

Inverts

Invert - Overlaying term for handstands on the edge of a halfpipe

Handplant (Layback) - A 180 degree handplant in which the rear hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is frontside.

Sad plant - A term used to describe any handplant where the front leg is boned for style.

Elgeurial - An invert where the halfpipe wall is approached fakie, the rear hand is planted, a 360 degree backside rotation is made, and the rider lands going forward. Named after Eddie Elguera.

Eggplant - A one-handed 180 degree invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is backside.

Eggflip - An eggplant where the rider chooses to flip over in order to re-enter the pipe instead or rotating 180 degrees. This trick is performed forward to fakie or switchstance (fakie to forward).

McEgg - An invert where the rider plants the front hand on the wall, rotated 540 degrees in a backside direction and lands riding forward.

Stale egg - An eggplant with a stalefish grab.

Crippler - An inverted aerial where the rider performs a 180 degree flip. The athlete approaches the wall riding forward, becomes airborne, rotates 90 degrees, flips over in the air, rotates another 90 degrees, and lands riding forward.

Andrecht - A rear handed backside handplant with a front-handed grab.

Slides

50-50 - A Slide where the rider rides with their board pointed straight in line with the rail.

BS Boardslide - The Rider approaches the rail with their heels on the side the rail is on, toes pointing away. They hop up and swing their front foot over the rail, and then slide down the rail.

FS Lipslide - The Rider approaches the rail with their toes on the side the rail is on, heels pointing away. They hop up and swing their back foot over the rail, and then slide down the rail.

BS Lipslide - The Rider approaches the rail with their heels on the side the rail is on, toes pointing away. They hop up and swing their back foot over the rail, and then slide down the rail.

FS Boardslide (Frontboard) - The Rider approaches the rail with their toes on the side the rail is on, heels pointing away. They hop up and swing their front foot over the rail, and then slide down the rail.

Noseslide - You slide perpendicular to the rail with it under your front foot

Tailslide - You slide perpendicular to the rail with it under your back foot

Nose Press/ 5-0 - A 50-50 slide, with the board bent so you're only on one the front binding.

Tail Press- The opposite of a nose press

Barley - An over crooked nose slide.

Hot Garbage - An over crooked front-nose slide.

Smith - A 50-50 with the nose tweaked 45 degrees Backside

Feeble - A 50-50 with the nose tweaked 45 degrees frontside

Michael Jackson - Named after Michael Jackson, you do a 50-50 on a rail, but you bank the board to slide on your toe edge.

Shoot The Duck - A variation of the famous 1970s ice and roller skating maneuver known as and first performed on a snowboard as early as 1993. The rider approaches rail/box with rear foot out of the binding. They then do a no-comply, with their rear foot, and land in a backside boardslide position. With their rear foot pointing forward, towards the end of the rail, and their back hand stabilizing their weight on the rear binding cup, they slide to the end. Named after.

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