24 · KNOWLEDGE AREA
An overview of how to describe a rider's ability in each discipline using self-assessment and observable criteria.
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OPEN ENTRY →Bending and extending the legs so the board can follow terrain or load changes without throwing the rider off balance.
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OPEN ENTRY →Snowboarding adapted for riders with physical, sensory or cognitive impairments, including the Paralympic para snowboard disciplines.
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OPEN ENTRY →A transition air entered in forward travel and returned to the same transition in reverse travel without a deliberate spin.
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OPEN ENTRY →The part of a movement between complete release from a supporting surface and the next contact.
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OPEN ENTRY →An alternative label for the same concept in a stated language, source or context; similar wording alone does not establish equivalence.
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OPEN ENTRY →A transition-air rotation directed uphill or against the usual down-feature rotational flow.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of alpine snowboard racing — slalom, giant slalom and their parallel formats — and the skills of reading a course, choosing a line and managing starts and finishes.
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OPEN ENTRY →The size or height of an aerial performance under the applicable judging convention.
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OPEN ENTRY →Bending at joints so that body segments form angles that help manage edge angle and balance.
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OPEN ENTRY →The travel phase that sets up a feature or trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →The relationship between the side from which a rider approaches a feature and the movement used to get onto it.
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OPEN ENTRY →The compass direction a slope faces.
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OPEN ENTRY →Observation against explicit criteria under stated conditions.
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OPEN ENTRY →A dated regional information product describing avalanche conditions; not a guarantee for a specific slope.
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OPEN ENTRY →A device for transmitting and searching compatible avalanche-rescue signals.
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OPEN ENTRY →Riding with the weight too far toward the tail for the task, so the front of the board loses grip and steering.
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OPEN ENTRY →Mountain terrain outside the relevant managed resort setting; boundaries must be made explicit.
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OPEN ENTRY →In straight-jump spin naming, rotation that brings the rider’s back toward the direction of travel during the first quarter-turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →A main-stance backside half-turn on a park jump, landing switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →A full backside rotation returning to the starting travel stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →Two backside rotations on a jump, returning to the departure stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →An air on the backside wall; source describes front-hand heel-edge contact.
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OPEN ENTRY →The nose crosses the feature into transverse support from a backside approach.
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OPEN ENTRY →An off-axis backside one-and-a-half rotation.
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OPEN ENTRY →A backside rotating plant supported by one or both hands.
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OPEN ENTRY →The tail crosses the feature into transverse support from a backside approach.
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OPEN ENTRY →A sloped sidewall or raised curved terrain surface.
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OPEN ENTRY →A timed race format using a sequence of banked turns.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of riding a banked slalom course: choosing a line, pumping through transitions and keeping speed between banks.
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OPEN ENTRY →The board's sliding underside; in stance analysis, Base of support is a different concept.
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OPEN ENTRY →The edge angle on the base side, measured relative to the base reference.
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OPEN ENTRY →The area under the rider through which they are supported — on a snowboard, the part of the board and edge in useful contact with the snow.
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OPEN ENTRY →A surface texture applied to the base as part of tuning.
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OPEN ENTRY →A format centred on individual large-jump trick attempts.
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OPEN ENTRY →The rotational orientation of each binding relative to the board's reference axis.
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OPEN ENTRY →A turn combining carved and skidded components.
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OPEN ENTRY →Practice organised in repeated attempts at the same task before changing tasks.
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OPEN ENTRY →In the referenced buttering lesson, a brief high tail press combined with a counterrotated shifty on snow.
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OPEN ENTRY →An across-feature entry to a tail-supported slide; terminology needs context.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of the main board and setup terms — sidecut, waist width, taper, setback, camber, flex and torsion — and how they affect riding.
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OPEN ENTRY →The board's bending and spring response under load, with timing emphasized over simply pushing harder.
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OPEN ENTRY →A change in the board’s heading relative to a reference such as the slope or direction of travel.
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OPEN ENTRY →The board’s roll across its width relative to the supporting surface.
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OPEN ENTRY →A transverse feature slide whose conventional entry carries the nose across the feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →Whole-body spin, counterrotation and board-relative change are different observations. Internal action alone cannot create net whole-body angular momentum in free flight. A useful definition identifies terrain, travel stance, body/board relation and source convention. Similar names can describe different mechanisms; conflicting sources remain visible.
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OPEN ENTRY →A deliberate change in body configuration used to style a trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →Extension of a leg to style or alter board position; identify which leg and the source's naming convention.
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OPEN ENTRY →A brief intentional board contact with an object during a freestyle movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →Boot contact with the snow that interferes with the intended edge support or clearance.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick named after Canadian snowboarder Eli Bouchard, who first landed it at the FIS Big Air World Cup in Chongli, China, in November 2025.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →Snow-based freestyle movement built around board-end support, flex and linked changes of position or direction.
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OPEN ENTRY →An individual turn linking initiation, shaping and completion into a C-like path.
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OPEN ENTRY →A naming prefix commonly used for switch-frontside spins in modern snowboard jump terminology.
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OPEN ENTRY →The cited PUSH lesson explicitly includes a Cab Underflip 540 tutorial alongside the frontside version.
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OPEN ENTRY →A profile with an upward central arch when assessed in the stated unloaded reference condition.
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OPEN ENTRY →The preferred label for one defined concept within a specified context.
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OPEN ENTRY →A turn in which the board changes direction while its tail follows substantially the same narrow track as its nose, with little lateral slipping.
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OPEN ENTRY →Riding turns on the edge so the board follows its own arc with little or no sideways skidding, and the style of riding built around such turns.
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OPEN ENTRY →The single point where the rider's body weight can be treated as concentrated when analysing balance and movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A balanced stance that permits movement through the joints; centred does not mean rigid or motionless.
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OPEN ENTRY →Change the slide or press while staying on the feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →Repeated vibration or intermittent loss and recovery of edge contact during riding.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of the core coaching vocabulary — skill, technique, drill, cue, method, progression and assessment — and how they differ.
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OPEN ENTRY →A departure in which the rider travels off the end or lip of a surface without a deliberate additional pop.
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OPEN ENTRY →Rescue actions undertaken by members of the affected group; procedural content requires specialist review.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of mental preparation for competition: routines, warm-ups and reviewing performance afterwards.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of how snowboard competitions are organised and judged: events, scores, runs, heats and qualification.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of commonly confused snowboard terms: switch and fakie, nose and front, edge angle and body lean, pop and ollie, turn radius and sidecut radius.
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OPEN ENTRY →Locations used to describe where the board profile contacts or transitions toward contact with a reference surface.
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OPEN ENTRY →A constructed edge element along the upper boundary of a transition feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →A freestyle rotation family involving a deliberately off-axis rotational movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overhanging snow formation created by wind deposition.
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OPEN ENTRY →The lateral space within which a riding task or sequence is performed.
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OPEN ENTRY →Opposing rotational movement of upper and lower body regions within a freestyle action.
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OPEN ENTRY →Coordinated opposing rotations of body regions, commonly the upper body relative to the legs and board.
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OPEN ENTRY →Traction devices for firm-snow travel; distinguish board/ski crampons from boot crampons.
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OPEN ENTRY →A crack in glacial ice, potentially concealed by snow.
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OPEN ENTRY →An inverted half-turn with forward approach and forward exit in a pipe.
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OPEN ENTRY →A turn transition described primarily by the rider’s body moving across the board’s path to the inside of the next turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →A transition label for coordinated movement of the body and board through the change between turns.
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OPEN ENTRY →A turn transition described primarily by the board and legs passing beneath the body toward the next turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →A firmer surface layer over softer snow; it may support or break under a rider.
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OPEN ENTRY →A concise prompt intended to direct attention or action.
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OPEN ENTRY →Reduction of vibration through the board or equipment system.
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OPEN ENTRY →A platform beside or beyond the lip of a pipe or transition feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →Separation between layers of the board's construction.
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OPEN ENTRY →Deliberately reducing edge sharpness in selected areas.
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OPEN ENTRY →A design intended to favour one travel direction.
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OPEN ENTRY →A board combining twin-like characteristics with directional design elements; details vary by model.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview explaining the difference between a discipline, a style, a skill, a trick and a drill, and how the Bible connects them.
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OPEN ENTRY →A heel-side Dolphin Turn connected into a nollie 720.
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OPEN ENTRY →Name recorded in the research pack; a definition has not yet been established.
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OPEN ENTRY →Two distinct off-axis/inverted movements within one air.
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OPEN ENTRY →Two separate grabs within one air.
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OPEN ENTRY →In Start Snowboarding's sequence, flexing before the edge change and extending into the next turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →Reducing the load on the board by flexing quickly, so pressure drops for a moment and the edge change becomes easier.
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OPEN ENTRY →A practice task designed to develop or assess a specified outcome.
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OPEN ENTRY →A departure from a terrain step into a lower landing area.
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OPEN ENTRY →How long a movement or phase of a movement lasts.
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OPEN ENTRY →Staying balanced while moving, as speed, terrain, edge angle and forces keep changing.
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OPEN ENTRY →Modest early inclination with patience before pressure or steering, as described in a 2019 APSI clinic report.
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OPEN ENTRY →The angle of the board relative to the local snow surface, rather than a measure of body lean.
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OPEN ENTRY →An unexpected bite of the downhill edge into the snow that abruptly stops the board and usually throws the rider down.
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OPEN ENTRY →Transferring from one working edge to the other.
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OPEN ENTRY →Establishing an edge-snow interaction that provides the intended support or direction control.
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OPEN ENTRY →Reducing edge engagement sufficiently for the intended task; not necessarily a prolonged flat-base position.
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OPEN ENTRY →Controlling how much the board is tilted onto its edge, and when, to grip the snow and steer.
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OPEN ENTRY →The manufacturer's defined length of edge relevant to snow contact; measurement conventions may differ.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →The connection between a rotation onto a feature and the board position that receives support after the entry.
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OPEN ENTRY →A community label for a deeply inclined, often laid-out carved turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →The quality of performing a trick or run under the relevant assessment or judging criteria.
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OPEN ENTRY →The connection between rotation away from a feature and the stance in which the rider lands.
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OPEN ENTRY →Straightening a joint, such as the ankle, knee or hip, so the body segments open up.
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OPEN ENTRY →An attentional prompt directed toward an intended effect or the environment.
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OPEN ENTRY →A named carving style associated with linked deeply laid turns and a developed approach to coordinating body and board movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A backwards-riding or reverse-travel label whose precise use depends on the source and board-sport tradition.
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OPEN ENTRY →The locally steepest downhill direction on a slope.
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OPEN ENTRY →Alternating diagonal travel on the same edge without linking conventional edge-changing turns.
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OPEN ENTRY →Support supplied by a constructed or natural obstacle during contact with it.
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OPEN ENTRY →Information provided about an attempt or performance to support learning.
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OPEN ENTRY →The flat section between the halfpipe walls.
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OPEN ENTRY →Lighting with weak surface contrast that makes terrain shape difficult to judge.
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OPEN ENTRY →An application of the flexed (down-unweighted) transition to quick turns and uneven terrain.
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OPEN ENTRY →Bending a joint, such as the ankle, knee or hip, so the body segments close together.
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OPEN ENTRY →An aerial rotation involving a somersault-like movement; specify axis and direction.
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OPEN ENTRY →The way the rider remains connected to and supported through the feet during a movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →The direction along the board, from nose to tail.
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OPEN ENTRY →Managing the rider’s relationship to the board’s lengthwise support so the intended movement remains controlled.
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OPEN ENTRY →The forward inclination setting of the binding highback or the relevant boot component.
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OPEN ENTRY →Riding the whole mountain, especially natural terrain and off-piste snow, with an emphasis on line choice rather than park features.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of freeride and splitboard touring vocabulary: snow states, terrain, equipment and safety terms.
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OPEN ENTRY →Snowboarding centred on tricks, creative movement and combinations on snow, jumps, obstacles and transitions.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of basic freestyle vocabulary: pop, ollie, nollie, frontside/backside, switch, Cab, cork, invert and grab.
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OPEN ENTRY →The foot described as front under a stated reference convention: either the rider’s usual front binding or the foot leading in the current travel direction.
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OPEN ENTRY →In straight-jump spin naming, rotation that brings the rider’s chest toward the direction of travel during the first quarter-turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →A frontside half-turn with a switch ride-away.
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OPEN ENTRY →A full frontside rotation on a park jump, returning to the departure stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →Two frontside rotations on a jump, returning to the departure stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →A contextual term pair: the lesson associates the frontside wall with toe-edge riding and the front facing uphill, and the backside wall with heel-edge riding and the back facing uphill.
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OPEN ENTRY →The nose crosses the feature into transverse support from a frontside approach.
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OPEN ENTRY →The established front-board pose exits into reverse/switch travel relative to the entry. Its exact return rotation depends on the demonstrated entry.
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OPEN ENTRY →An off-axis frontside one-and-a-half rotation.
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OPEN ENTRY →The tail crosses the feature into transverse support from a frontside approach.
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OPEN ENTRY →PUSH describes this named movement as combining a frontside half-turn with a backflip.
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OPEN ENTRY →FUNxR's original site describes a technical-development system founded by ShimHoon; CARICK is its global community/gateway.
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OPEN ENTRY →Repeated partial turn actions that release and re-engage the same edge without completing an edge change.
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OPEN ENTRY →Right-foot-forward stance in the rider's usual direction.
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OPEN ENTRY →A deliberate hand hold on the board during a trick; hand, reach route, edge and contact region define identity.
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OPEN ENTRY →The specific hand-to-board hold used within a grab.
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OPEN ENTRY →An ordered series of distinct board holds within one airborne movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →The steepness of a slope.
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OPEN ENTRY →The supporting or resisting effect of the board-snow contact that limits unwanted slip.
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OPEN ENTRY →Teaching through structured tasks and questions that help the learner find useful solutions.
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OPEN ENTRY →A channel-shaped depression in terrain.
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OPEN ENTRY →Funcarve's label for shoulder orientation in its basic position; a clear Plus appears late in the relevant turn rather than at initiation.
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OPEN ENTRY →A feature with opposing curved walls and a connecting floor.
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OPEN ENTRY →Briefly touching or dragging a hand on the snow during a trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →Contact in which a hand bears load against snow or a feature during a movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A brief contact of a hand with snow or a feature during riding or a trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →A movement using one or both hands as external support while the body and board rise into a planted position, commonly inverted.
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OPEN ENTRY →A direction-sensitive modifier for a feature entry or exit that works against the usual rotational flow for that approach.
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OPEN ENTRY →A feature entry using the hardway rotational direction for the stated approach side.
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OPEN ENTRY →A competition grouping or round whose exact function depends on the event rules.
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OPEN ENTRY →The edge adjacent to the rider's heels; it remains the heel edge in switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →How securely a boot retains the heel during movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A departure in which the heel-side edge is the final working edge before release into the air.
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OPEN ENTRY →The source's backside (heel-side) example, using a different body orientation from the toe-side example.
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OPEN ENTRY →A briefly elevated press, distinguished from a sustained low press.
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OPEN ENTRY →Rotation magnitudes above 720 reported in competition jump spins; the degree label describes rotation amount, not the axis.
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OPEN ENTRY →The binding component supporting the rear of the lower leg.
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OPEN ENTRY →A jump feature with takeoff and landing oriented at an angle to one another.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →A guide to finding knowledge in the Snowboard Bible by trick name, task, error, ability, conditions or video.
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OPEN ENTRY →A profile combining camber, rocker or flat sections.
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OPEN ENTRY →A proposed explanation to test; distinguish it from a confirmed cause of a riding problem.
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OPEN ENTRY →Leaning the body relative to its support during riding.
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OPEN ENTRY →Embedded attachment points used to mount bindings.
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OPEN ENTRY →How strongly an action is performed within a particular task.
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OPEN ENTRY →An attentional prompt directed toward body movement or sensation.
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OPEN ENTRY →A pathway developing a ramp entry before a controlled lip entry, absorbing the transition without an air.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick or movement in which the rider becomes inverted; not a synonym for every off-axis rotation.
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OPEN ENTRY →Rotation with the head below the board during part of the air.
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OPEN ENTRY →A glide that develops into a turn and a controlled finish across the slope, forming a J-like path.
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OPEN ENTRY →A Japanese ground-trick practice commonly called guratori, combining presses, pops, supported rotations and linked sequences.
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OPEN ENTRY →A freestyle action on or using a feature such as a rail, box or other obstacle.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of jib and pipe vocabulary: approach, slide, press, pretzel, lip, coping, vert and alley-oop.
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OPEN ENTRY →The basic movements of the ankles, knees, hips and spine — flexing, extending and rotating — that riders use to balance and control the board.
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OPEN ENTRY →How speed, takeoff shape, pop timing and landing geometry combine to produce a jump's flight and landing.
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OPEN ENTRY →A touring direction change using a deliberate stepped turn of the equipment.
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OPEN ENTRY →The changeover or crest before a jump's landing slope; distinguish it from the intended landing zone.
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OPEN ENTRY →The return to contact following flight.
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OPEN ENTRY →A styling concept: shoulder-led movement with the lower body's motion delayed before final alignment.
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OPEN ENTRY →Rotation, or a recognisable part of it, occurring later in the airborne sequence rather than being completed immediately after takeoff.
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OPEN ENTRY →Managing how loading acts across the board’s width and between its toe-side and heel-side support.
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OPEN ENTRY →The foot ahead in the current direction of travel; it changes when travel reverses.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of what riders can safely learn on their own and when an instructor, coach or mountain guide is needed.
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OPEN ENTRY →The inner boot component providing fit, cushioning and insulation.
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OPEN ENTRY →Laid turns linked by connecting each exit directly to the next turn, without an intervening traverse, with emphasis on a balanced exit.
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OPEN ENTRY →Linked turns with rotation placed late in flexion, connecting directly into extension.
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OPEN ENTRY →The upper edge or departure boundary of a jump or transition feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →A paired source label for the upper boundary of a transition, used where a lesson discusses the lip and coping together.
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OPEN ENTRY →A transverse feature slide whose entry carries the tail across the feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →Bending along the length of the board.
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OPEN ENTRY →Toe and heel wall turns developed before adding a small hop, travelling diagonally down the pipe.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →Inverted backside 540 associated with halfpipe.
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OPEN ENTRY →An organised approach for selecting, sequencing and explaining learning tasks.
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OPEN ENTRY →In Funcarve's overhead-view analogy, shoulders aligned with the board form a minus-like orientation.
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OPEN ENTRY →A term with unresolved source conflict: Burton describes an inverted backside 540, while WSF describes a partially inverted frontside 540 and compares it with a McTwist from a straight jump.
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OPEN ENTRY →Repeated snow bumps and troughs.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →Observation and interpretation of movement in relation to task, conditions and outcome.
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OPEN ENTRY →Two or more identifiable inverted passages within one airborne movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →A takeoff using loading and release of the board’s physical nose.
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OPEN ENTRY →Using a nose-loaded release as the departure mechanism for a jump or trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →Backside rotation starting from the rider’s usual travel stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →Frontside rotation starting from the rider’s usual travel stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →The designated physical front end of the board; its name does not reverse in switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →A snow-based position or movement in which support is deliberately concentrated toward the physical nose and the tail is lifted or visibly unloaded.
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OPEN ENTRY →A half-turn involving supported rotation over the nose.
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OPEN ENTRY →Supported rotation while maintaining a nose-loaded butter position.
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OPEN ENTRY →Frontside boardslide-style entry with support near the front foot/nose, transverse to the feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →An aerial spin with a deliberately tilted rotational pattern rather than a predominantly upright one.
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OPEN ENTRY →Terrain outside prepared pistes; access and boundary meanings depend on the resort and jurisdiction.
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OPEN ENTRY →A takeoff using loading and release of the board’s physical tail, with the nose rising before the tail leaves the surface.
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OPEN ENTRY →Using an ollie as the departure mechanism for a jump, spin or feature entry.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of the orientation terms used to describe a rider and board: regular/goofy, forward/switch, nose/tail and leading/trailing foot.
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OPEN ENTRY →The extent to which boots or bindings project beyond the board's edges.
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OPEN ENTRY →A common repair/material label for polyethylene snowboard bases; repair suitability depends on the damage.
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OPEN ENTRY →A parallel-course giant-slalom race format.
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OPEN ENTRY →A parallel-course slalom race format.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of park and pipe competition formats: slopestyle, big air, halfpipe and rail events.
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OPEN ENTRY →Basic physics ideas that help explain snowboarding — forces, balance, friction, momentum and rotation.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rounded snow-covered natural feature, often part of a series.
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OPEN ENTRY →In Funcarve's description, shoulders turned approximately perpendicular to the board toward the leading leg, forming a plus-like overhead view.
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OPEN ENTRY →A transition air from reverse travel to forward travel without deliberate rotation.
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OPEN ENTRY →An active contribution to takeoff produced by rider movement against the supporting surface.
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OPEN ENTRY →How the rider's body position over the board supports balance and readiness to move.
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OPEN ENTRY →Relatively loose, unconsolidated snow; its depth and density still need description.
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OPEN ENTRY →A capability required for a stated task; use only when the relationship has been reviewed.
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OPEN ENTRY →A position or action emphasising support toward one board end, usually with the opposite end elevated.
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OPEN ENTRY →Where loading acts along or across the board.
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OPEN ENTRY →How much load the board is carrying against the snow at a given moment.
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OPEN ENTRY →Regulating the amount of pressure between board and riding surface.
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OPEN ENTRY →Controlling how much pressure the board carries and where along and across it, throughout a turn or trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →A brief reduction of board pressure that can support an edge change.
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OPEN ENTRY →An exit-direction label for rotation that reverses the direction used in the entry.
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OPEN ENTRY →The feature-exit action that rotates opposite to the entry rotation; a common described application is a 270-out.
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OPEN ENTRY →A probing tool used in an avalanche companion-rescue context; glossary recognition is not rescue competence.
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OPEN ENTRY →A planned sequence of tasks with increasing or changing demands.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →Funcarve's timing modification of down-unweighting with smooth knee movement and a significant role for rotation, with greater leg extension near mid-arc and renewed flexion afterwards.
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OPEN ENTRY →A source-specific carving movement strategy involving coordinated extension and flexion; preserve attribution and timing.
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OPEN ENTRY →A flexed start, rotation, progressive leg extension toward mid-turn, then flexion toward completion, cued as moving the board away and drawing it back.
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OPEN ENTRY →An underflip with four flipping rotations in one jump.
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OPEN ENTRY →A single curved transition wall used for an ascent and return or a specified transfer.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of racing technique: edge timing, turn radius, pressure, transitions and the trade-offs in choosing a trajectory between gates.
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OPEN ENTRY →Competitive snowboarding against the clock or other riders, including alpine gate racing, snowboard cross and banked slalom.
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OPEN ENTRY →A riding-context label for connecting tricks with flowing turns and movement down the slope.
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OPEN ENTRY →A guide to reading Bible entries that describe movement: rotation directions, notation and what each field means.
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OPEN ENTRY →The foot described as rear under a stated reference convention: either the usual rear binding or the foot trailing in current travel.
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OPEN ENTRY →Elastic return after the board has been bent and loaded.
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OPEN ENTRY →Adjusting the rider-board relationship to regain useful support for the next action.
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OPEN ENTRY →Bringing the centre of mass back over the base of support during transition, avoiding a premature dive into the next arc.
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OPEN ENTRY →Repeating the relevant observation after a change under comparable conditions.
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OPEN ENTRY →Everyday snowboarding on resort slopes for enjoyment, from first days to confident all-mountain riding.
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OPEN ENTRY →An adaptation that reduces a task's demands while preserving its purpose.
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OPEN ENTRY →Left-foot-forward stance in the rider's usual direction.
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OPEN ENTRY →Other board sports — such as skateboarding and surfing — whose tricks, words and style influence snowboarding.
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OPEN ENTRY →Drawing the legs or board toward the body during a movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A movement strategy the 2022 AASI guide lists alongside up- and down-unweighting in advanced carved tasks.
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OPEN ENTRY →A supported pivot that changes the board’s travel orientation, often between forward and switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →A reversal or return in rotational movement within a trick or exit sequence.
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OPEN ENTRY →A freestyle sequence descriptor for a visible rotational return or reversal after an initial movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →Controlled continuation after landing or exiting a feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of what to record about a rider before planning learning: experience, goals, stance, switch ability and available terrain.
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OPEN ENTRY →An upward-curving profile toward board ends; specify the location and reference condition.
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OPEN ENTRY →Combined flip-and-spin family; direction and axes require variant-specific review.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rounded terrain rise that can be absorbed, pumped or used for airtime.
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OPEN ENTRY →Turning about an axis; specify whether describing the body, board or entire airborne system.
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OPEN ENTRY →An imaginary line about which a body or board rotates during a movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →How rotation is created, controlled and stopped in snowboarding — on snow and in the air.
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OPEN ENTRY →Funcarve's model of body orientation progressing through the turn and returning toward the basic position at edge transfer.
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OPEN ENTRY →Preparatory body rotation followed by board response and recentring.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of competition rules: eligibility, equipment, judging, penalties, protests and why the rule version and date matter.
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OPEN ENTRY →One performance or descent counted within the relevant event format.
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OPEN ENTRY →The selection and ordering of elements within a performance.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of what judges look at in a run: difficulty, variety, execution, flow and amplitude where applicable.
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OPEN ENTRY →The area available for continuation and slowing after a slope or feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →Linked turns on alternating edges that form successive S-like paths.
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OPEN ENTRY →An exit-direction label for continuing the rotational direction established on entry.
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OPEN ENTRY →An exit from a feature that continues the rotational direction of the entry.
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OPEN ENTRY →A way into the Bible by goal — first day, confident piste riding, first carve, first press or first park session.
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OPEN ENTRY →A way into the Bible by problem — for example "I cannot do it", "I lose my edge" or "I cannot stop".
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OPEN ENTRY →A difference in orientation or movement between body regions, commonly upper and lower body.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rearward offset of stance or reference geometry; specify the manufacturer's reference.
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OPEN ENTRY →An aerial board/body orientation change followed by a return, rather than completion of an equivalent whole-body spin.
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OPEN ENTRY →The angle of the edge's side face under the workshop's stated convention.
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OPEN ENTRY →The curved outline of the board's side edge.
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OPEN ENTRY →The geometric radius or radii describing the sidecut; not a fixed prediction of actual turn radius.
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OPEN ENTRY →Controlled sideways sliding with the board substantially across the fall line.
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OPEN ENTRY →One identifiable inverted passage within an airborne movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A sideways component of board movement relative to its orientation; it can be intentional.
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OPEN ENTRY →A turn containing deliberate sideways board displacement.
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OPEN ENTRY →Lateral board displacement that produces a different track from a clean carve.
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OPEN ENTRY →A capability that can be developed and demonstrated across relevant tasks.
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OPEN ENTRY →An uphill route followed while touring on skins.
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OPEN ENTRY →Directional traction material attached to touring equipment for ascent.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of slang and historical names in snowboarding: what they meant, current preferred names and ambiguous usage.
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OPEN ENTRY →Slash Pop is an existing named source lead associated with Nev Lapwood/Snowboard Addiction.
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OPEN ENTRY →Travel in contact with a feature; board orientation and support determine the specific trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →A competition or riding format using a sequence of park features.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →Wet, softened snow with substantial liquid water content.
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OPEN ENTRY →A small-drop pathway must connect approach, departure, airborne organisation, contact and runout on an actual selected feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →Small carved turns as an advanced task; size is relative to the task, with no universal radius in metres.
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OPEN ENTRY →Contact with snow that supports or redirects the rider-board system during a movement.
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OPEN ENTRY →A race format with multiple riders on a course containing terrain features.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of snowboard cross racing skills: starts, rollers, banks, jumps, passing and decisions in traffic.
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OPEN ENTRY →Carving in soft snowboard boots — an equipment context shared by different approaches, not one fixed movement sequence.
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OPEN ENTRY →An aerial or supported rotation; record direction, rotation amount, stance and terrain.
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OPEN ENTRY →A snowboard designed to separate for uphill travel and reconnect for descent.
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OPEN ENTRY →A deliberately arrested or briefly held supported position on a feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →The rider's arrangement over the board; distinguish body position from binding setup.
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OPEN ENTRY →The spacing between binding positions under the stated measurement convention.
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OPEN ENTRY →Turning the board by rotating parts of the body — legs, hips or shoulders — to change its direction.
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OPEN ENTRY →An airborne jump without a deliberate whole-body spin or flip.
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OPEN ENTRY →A sequence in which one supported slide or press position changes into another while the rider continues along the feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →A split or notched tail shape.
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OPEN ENTRY →Riding in the direction opposite to the rider's usual stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →A switch backside half-turn on a park jump, returning to main stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →Backside rotation starting from switch travel.
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OPEN ENTRY →Carved tasks ridden switch; a stance variant, not inherently an advanced trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →A switch frontside half-turn on a park jump, returning to main stance.
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OPEN ENTRY →A switch frontside full rotation on a jump, returning to switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →The switch-frontside rotation channel; Cab is a common naming form for this channel in modern jump terminology.
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OPEN ENTRY →An unrotated jump ridden switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →An additional rider-published lesson for a generically named Switch Underflip whose numeric rotation is not specified in the text.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of how the Bible handles synonyms, other languages and common misspellings in search.
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OPEN ENTRY →The designated physical rear end of the board; its name does not reverse in switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →A snow-based position or movement in which support is deliberately concentrated toward the physical tail and the nose is lifted or visibly unloaded.
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OPEN ENTRY →Supported rotation while maintaining a tail-loaded butter position.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →The reviewed original list names Tailfish without sufficient mechanical detail in the retained packet.
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OPEN ENTRY →The dedicated lesson uses a frontside lipslide-style entry into transverse rear-foot/tail support. Preserve that entry specificity.
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OPEN ENTRY →The departure phase from snow or a feature into flight.
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OPEN ENTRY →A brief contact action; name the contacting board end or body part and the feature.
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OPEN ENTRY →A difference between nose and tail width, usually with a narrower tail.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of technical (demonstration) and freeride competitions, plus regional and independent event formats.
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OPEN ENTRY →Competitions and demonstrations in which riders are judged on the technical quality of turns and set riding tasks rather than on tricks.
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OPEN ENTRY →A way of organising movement to achieve a task.
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OPEN ENTRY →Terrain that can increase the consequences of being carried or buried by moving snow.
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OPEN ENTRY →When an action occurs relative to the movement or terrain sequence.
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OPEN ENTRY →A grab in which the rear hand holds the toe edge between the rear binding and the tail.
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OPEN ENTRY →The edge adjacent to the rider's toes; it remains the toe edge in switch.
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OPEN ENTRY →A toe-edge-departure ollie 180 taken within a loaded carving turn, returning directly into switch-turn flow.
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OPEN ENTRY →A departure in which the toe-side edge is the final working edge before release into the air.
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OPEN ENTRY →The source's frontside (toe-side) example, developing from a flexed transition toward a fully laid position and returning through flexion.
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OPEN ENTRY →The board's capacity to twist along its length.
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OPEN ENTRY →A difference in the board’s tilt along its length, produced by twisting rather than rolling the entire board as one rigid shape.
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OPEN ENTRY →The foot behind in the current direction of travel.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of race training methods: timed sections, line comparison, split analysis and race simulation.
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OPEN ENTRY →A movement that leaves one feature or support line and reaches a different feature or landing line.
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OPEN ENTRY →The extent to which learning in one task supports performance in another.
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OPEN ENTRY →A curved section of terrain connecting a lower surface to a steeper wall or another slope angle.
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OPEN ENTRY →The interval in which one turn is completed and the rider-board system reorganises to begin the next.
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OPEN ENTRY →An edge change near a turn's apex on small transitions (banks, gullies, halfpipe), assessed in the AASI freestyle guide.
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OPEN ENTRY →Travel across a slope rather than directly down the fall line.
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OPEN ENTRY →A depression or loose-snow space around a tree.
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OPEN ENTRY →Three distinct off-axis/inverted movements within one air.
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OPEN ENTRY →A symmetrical board design intended to have matching nose and tail characteristics.
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OPEN ENTRY →A designated reference point within the central part of a turn used to discuss its shape, timing or loading.
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OPEN ENTRY →The finishing phase that prepares the transition to the next action.
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OPEN ENTRY →The phase in which a new turn begins.
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OPEN ENTRY →How a snowboard turn is produced: edging, rotation, pressure and balance working through the phases of the turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →Initiation, control and finish as assessment categories for a turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →The radius describing the rider or board's actual curved path; it is not automatically the sidecut radius.
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OPEN ENTRY →Two aspects of a turn’s path: shape describes how the direction changes through the arc, while size describes its spatial extent.
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OPEN ENTRY →The phase in which the path and direction change of the turn are developed.
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OPEN ENTRY →Varying turn shape, size and line through the timing, intensity and duration of movements.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of turn vocabulary: edge, fall line, apex, initiation, transition, skid and carve.
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OPEN ENTRY →A deliberate stylistic adjustment of body or board position within a trick.
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OPEN ENTRY →A takeoff action using coordinated extension of both legs rather than a deliberate nose- or tail-led release.
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OPEN ENTRY →An overview of how the Bible handles unknown terms, conflicting definitions and movements that have no established name.
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OPEN ENTRY →A reduction in board loading during a movement; it does not necessarily mean becoming airborne.
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OPEN ENTRY →In Start Snowboarding's sequence, extending for the edge change, then flexing through the following turn.
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OPEN ENTRY →Reducing the load on the board by extending upward, so pressure drops at the top of the movement and the edge change becomes easier.
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OPEN ENTRY →An aerial spin whose principal rotational action remains broadly upright rather than deliberately rolling into an off-axis or inverted pattern.
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OPEN ENTRY →Practice that changes relevant task or environmental conditions.
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OPEN ENTRY →The approximately vertical upper portion of a transition wall.
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OPEN ENTRY →As defined by the Extremecarving authors, a single frontside laid turn using counter-rotation.
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OPEN ENTRY →A design label for redistributing board dimensions, commonly width versus length; retain model-specific geometry.
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OPEN ENTRY →A trick name listed by FIS whose movement has not yet been described in a published source.
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OPEN ENTRY →The board width at its narrow central region.
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OPEN ENTRY →A loss of the intended supporting grip that allows the board to slide away.
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OPEN ENTRY →A sideways-facing backward flip over the tail, with the upper body aligned along the snowboard in the cited training lesson.
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OPEN ENTRY →Snow whose surface or distribution has been changed by wind.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rotation amount of 180 degrees: half a revolution.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rotation amount of 2340 degrees: six and a half revolutions.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rotation amount of 360 degrees: one complete revolution.
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OPEN ENTRY →A slide with the board’s length aligned approximately along the rail or box.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rotation amount of 540 degrees: one and a half revolutions.
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OPEN ENTRY →A rotation amount of 720 degrees: two complete revolutions.
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OPEN ENTRY →Japanese-style and Korean-style carving are broad descriptive labels covering different instructors and approaches.
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