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Snowboard Glossary
Definitions of snowboard slang, freestyle, and board construction.
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- aft search for term
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The rear of the snowboard, also called the tail.
- All Mountain Riding search for term
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Is the combination of freestyle, freeride, and alpine/carving styles of riding. The emphasis on using all of the mountain.
- alley-oop search for term
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A 180-degree spin with uphill rotation in a halfpipe.
- Alpine search for term
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The style of riding that utilizes hard boots and a plate binding set up.
Synonyms: Carving - Andrecht search for term
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A rear handed backside
hand plant with a front-handed grab. - ankle strap search for term
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A strap on the binding that goes around the ankle to hold the heel down, can also be found on boots of step-in bindings.
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A type of board where the toe side core, sidecut, and flex are shifted towards the tip of the snowboard.
