Snowboarding Tricks
The main reason why snowboarding has attained such phenomenal popularity in such a short time within its inception is because of the thrills, exhilaration, excitement and adrenaline rush it guarantees. This is an adventure based winter sport that has caught the fancy of all-especially the youngsters and its USP is the skilful stunts and crazy tricks performed by pros which have earned the sport its huge fan following.
Snowboarding isn’t just about grabbing a snowboard and starting off for the snowy Alps. You have to master the art of sailing down the snowy slopes of a mountain at top speed painstakingly, after endless sessions of practice and the same holds true for pulling off tricks and stunts like flips, big air and turns off the top of snowy summits.
You have to; also, keep in mind certain safety measures while carrying them out.
In this article I will explain a few common tricks to initiates.
Jib
When you ride on some other surface, different from snow, like grass, rails, cement, concrete, you call it a jib.
Scream
When you go whoosh down a super steep slope of a hill/mountain, the steepness will make you scream at the top of your voice throughout the ride down.
Speed Check
It is simply what it means – checking your speed and slowing down by snowboarding sideways when you get a feeling that you are perhaps speeding or riding too fast than is necessary.
Ollie
This involves giving a big jump up in the air and lifting the foot from the frontal portion of the snowboard in order to catch maximum air. For this you have to utilize the back of the snowboard almost as a spring board while performing the other steps described just now.
Switch
This one involves boarding backwards while pulling off a trick.
Big Air
It is a kind of flip. The snowboarder goes up the side of a half pipe and continues to gain in speed. When he reaches the top of the pipe and pushes himself up into the air, he will flip his snowboard suddenly. It ends with a nice and smooth land.
All this is performed so that he can ride as high up in to the air as possible. Big air means repeating these very same flips high up in the air on both sides of the half pipe, by following the same steps.