TRICKS
Straight airs
Ollie: A trick in which the snowboarder springs off the tail of the board and into the air.
Nollie: A trick in which the snowboarder springs off the nose of the board and into the air.
Switch ollie: While riding switch, the snowboarder performs an ollie.
Fakie ollie: While riding backward, the snowboarder springs off of his 'new nose', and into the air.
Shifty: An aerial trick in which a snowboarder twists his body in order to shift or rotate his board about 90° from its normal position beneath him,
and then returns the board to its original position before landing.
Air-to-fakie: Airing straight out of a vertical transition (halfpipe, quarterpipe) and then re-entering fakie, without rotation.
Poptart: Airing from fakie to forward on a quarterpipe or halfpipe without rotation.
Flail: A term used to describe the movements of an out-of-control snowboarder who is waving his hands wildly while in the air.
Grabs
1 2: (one-two; not twelve) A trick in which the rider's front hand grabs the heel edge behind his back foot.
A B: A trick in which the rider's rear hand grabs the heel side of the board front for the front bindings.
Beef Carpaccio: A Roast Beef and Chicken Salad (in between the legs) at the same time with hands crossed.
Beef Curtains: Advanced version of a Roast Beef where both hands simultaneously grab the heelside edge of the board between the bindings.
Bloody Dracula: A trick in which the rider grabs the tail of the board with both hands. The rear hand grabs the board as it would do it during a regular tail-grab but the front hand blindly reaches for the board behind the riders back.
Cannonball/UFO: A trick in which the nose and tail of the board are grabbed simultaneously.
Chicken salad: A trick in which the leading hand passes through the legs from the front and grabs the heel edge between the feet.
China air: An easier version of the Japan Air; the front hand grabs the toe side in front of the front foot. Both knees are then bent.
Crail: A trick in which the rear hand grabs the toe edge in front of the front foot.
Cross-rocket: Advanced variation of a Rocket Air, where the arms are crossed in order to grab opposite sides of the nose of the board, while the rear leg is boned straight and the front leg is tucked up.
Frontside grab/indy: A fundamental trick performed by grabbing the toe edge between the bindings with the trailing hand. This trick is referred to as a frontside grab on a straight air, or while performing a frontside spin. When performing a backside aerial or backside rotation.
Goomba: Back hand grabs nose of the board around the back. similar to the nuclear
Japan air: The front hand grabs the toe edge just behind/on the front foot. However, the arm must go around the outside of your front knee. The board is then pulled behind the rider (tweaked).
Lien air: When performing a frontside air on transition, the snowboarder grabs heelside in front or behind the leading binding with his/her leading hand. In order for it to be a Lien air, the board can not be tweaked and has to be kept flat.
Melancholy:Performed by grabbing the heel edge between the bindings with the leading hand, while the front leg is boned forward.
Melon:A melon grab where the rider bones the front leg and turns the board the 45° angle.
Method: A fundamental trick performed by bending the knees to lift the board behind the rider's back, and grabbing the heel edge of the snowboard with the leading hand.
Mindy: Both hands grab toeside between the bindings. This is more commonly referred to as a gorilla.
Stiffy: This is a variation of the Mindy where the rider straightens their legs while holding the grab.
Mindy: Both hands grab toeside outside of the bindings.
Mute: Front hand grabs the toe edge between the bindings.
Nosegrab: Front hand grabs the nose of the board.
Nuclear: The rear hand grabs the nose of the board.
Perfect: The front hand grabs the tail of the board.
Roast beef: Back hand grabs through the legs to the heel edge.
Rocket Air: Both hands grab the nose of the board, while the rear leg is boned and the front leg is pulled up.
Rusty Trombone: A Roast Beef and Nose grab performed at the same time.
Seatbelt: The front hand reaches across the body and grabs the toe edge behind the back binding.
Slob: A mute grab where the back leg is boned straight.
Stalefish: Back hand grabs the heel edge of the board at the back foot, around the outside of the knee.
Squirrel: where the rider's front hand grabs the heel edge in front of the front foot and his rear/back hand grabs the heel edge behind the rear foot.
Steak Tar Tar: A Chicken Salad and a Roast Beef at the same time.
Swiss cheese air: The rear hand reaches between the legs and grabs the heel edge in front of the front foot while the back leg is boned.
Tailfish: The trailing hand grabs the heel edge between rear binding and the tail.
Tailgrab: The trailing hand grabs the tail of the board.
Taipan air: The front hand reaches behind the front foot and grabs the toe edge between the bindings. The front knee is then bent to touch the board tuck knee style.
Tindy: The tindy grab is a controversial grab. The trailing hand grabs between the rear binding and the tail on the toe edge.
Truck driver: When both hands grab Indy and Melon.
Flips and inverted rotations
Back flip: Flipping backwards (like a standing backflip) off of a jump.
Front flip: Flipping forward (like a standing frontflip) off of a jump.
Wildcat: A backflip performed on a straight jump, with an axis of rotation in which the snowboarder flips in a backward, cartwheel-like fashion.
Tamedog: A frontflip performed on a straight jump, with an axis of rotation in which the snowboarder flips in a forward, cartwheel-like fashion.
McTwist: A forward-flipping backside 540, performed in a halfpipe, quarterpipe, or similar obstacle.
Haakon flip: An aerial maneuver performed in a halfpipe by taking off backwards, and performing an inverted 720° rotation. The rotation mimics a half-cab leading to McTwist.
Lando-Roll: A Frontside cork 540/720
Backside Misty: After a rider learns the basic backside 540 off the toes, the Misty Flip can be an easy next progression step. Misty Flip is quite different than the backside rodeo, because instead of corking over the heel edge with a back flip motion, the Misty corks off the toe edge specifically and has more of a Front Flip in the beginning of the trick, followed by a side flip coming out to the landing.
Frontside Misty: The Frontside misty ends up looking quite a bit like a frontside rodeo in the middle of the trick, but at take off the rider uses a more frontflip type of motion to start the trick. The frontside Misty can only be done off the toes and the rider will wind up to spin frontside, then snap their trailing shoulder towards their front foot and the lead shoulder will release towards the sky. as they unwind at takeoff release.
Usually grabbing Indy the rider follows the lead shoudler through the rotation to 540, 720 and even 900.
Chicane: A chicane is a rarely done trick that involves doing a frontside 180 with a front flip on the X Axis. Opposite of the 90 roll, the chicane is frontside 90, tuck front flip, 90 degrees more to land switch, or vice versa.;Frontside Misty:The Frontside misty ends up looking quite a bit like a frontside rodeo in the middle of the trick, but at take off the rider uses a more frontflip type of motion to start the trick. The frontside Misty can only be done off the toes and the rider will wind up to spin frontside, then snap their trailing shoulder towards their front foot and the lead shoulder will release towards the sky. as they unwind at takeoff release. Usually grabbing Indy the rider follows the lead shoudler through the rotation to 540, 720 and even 900.
Frontside Rodeo: The basic frontside rodeo is all together a 540. It essentially falls into a grey area between an off axis frontside 540 and a frontside 180 with a back flip blended into it. The grab choice and different line and pop factors can make it more flipy or more of an off-axis spin. Frontside rodeo can be done off the heels or toes and with a little more spin on the Z Axis can go to 720 or 900. It is possible to do it to a 1080 but, if there is too much flip in the spin, it can be hard not to over flip when going past 720 and 900. The bigger the Z Axis spin, the later the inverted part of the rotation should be. Gaining control on big spin rodeos, may lead to a double cork or a second flip rotation in the spin, if the rider has developed a comfort level with double flips on the tramp or other gymnastic environment.;Rodeo flip; frontside rodeo: A frontward-flipping frontside spin done off the toe-edge. Most commonly performed with a 540° rotation, but also performed as a 720°, 900°, etc...
Backside Rodeo flip: A backward-flipping backside spin. Most commonly performed with a 540° rotation, but also performed as a 720°, 900°, etc...
Ninety Roll: A trick performed by back-flipping toward the landing of a jump, with a total rotation of 180° backside therefore landing fakie. Essentially, this is a backside 180 backflip. This trick is sometimes confused with a backside Rodeo, though the Ninety Roll has a
much more linear axis of rotation.
Michalchuk: on-axis backflip often grabbing melon, indy or method and rotating 540 degrees.
Doublechuk: A variation of the Michalchuk, but with two backflip rotations.
Rippey flip: A back-flipping frontside 360°, typically performed with a method grab.
Sato flip: It's something like a frontside McTwist. The rider rides up the transition of the pipe as if doing a frontside 540°, pops in the air and grabs
frontside, then throws head, shoulders, and hips down.
Cork: Very few snowboarders have done a triple cork, Torstein Horgmo was the first, and corks are usually done with 360°, 720°, 1080°,
1260°, and 1440° spins.
Inverted Hand Plants
Invert: Overlaying term for handstands on the edge of a halfpipe
Handplant: A 180° degree handplant in which the rear hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is frontside.
Sad plant: An invert with a sad grab (melon grab).
Elguerial: 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.
Eggplant: A one-handed 180° 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 switch (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.
Andrecht: A rear handed backside handplant with a front-handed grab.
Miller flip: A 360° frontside handplant to fakie.
Layback: A non-inverted handplant in which the leading hand is planted during a slide. The rider literally lays back, hence the name.
HoHo: An invert but both hands are planted at the top of the halfpipe.
Killer Stand: You make an invert but you also take your back/rear hand on front hand's elbow.
Fresh: An invert (front hand) but back flip is boned; no grab.
J-Tear: Inverted frontside 540 with a hand plant in the middle.
Ollie: A trick in which the snowboarder springs off the tail of the board and into the air.
Nollie: A trick in which the snowboarder springs off the nose of the board and into the air.
Switch ollie: While riding switch, the snowboarder performs an ollie.
Fakie ollie: While riding backward, the snowboarder springs off of his 'new nose', and into the air.
Shifty: An aerial trick in which a snowboarder twists his body in order to shift or rotate his board about 90° from its normal position beneath him,
and then returns the board to its original position before landing.
Air-to-fakie: Airing straight out of a vertical transition (halfpipe, quarterpipe) and then re-entering fakie, without rotation.
Poptart: Airing from fakie to forward on a quarterpipe or halfpipe without rotation.
Flail: A term used to describe the movements of an out-of-control snowboarder who is waving his hands wildly while in the air.
Grabs
1 2: (one-two; not twelve) A trick in which the rider's front hand grabs the heel edge behind his back foot.
A B: A trick in which the rider's rear hand grabs the heel side of the board front for the front bindings.
Beef Carpaccio: A Roast Beef and Chicken Salad (in between the legs) at the same time with hands crossed.
Beef Curtains: Advanced version of a Roast Beef where both hands simultaneously grab the heelside edge of the board between the bindings.
Bloody Dracula: A trick in which the rider grabs the tail of the board with both hands. The rear hand grabs the board as it would do it during a regular tail-grab but the front hand blindly reaches for the board behind the riders back.
Cannonball/UFO: A trick in which the nose and tail of the board are grabbed simultaneously.
Chicken salad: A trick in which the leading hand passes through the legs from the front and grabs the heel edge between the feet.
China air: An easier version of the Japan Air; the front hand grabs the toe side in front of the front foot. Both knees are then bent.
Crail: A trick in which the rear hand grabs the toe edge in front of the front foot.
Cross-rocket: Advanced variation of a Rocket Air, where the arms are crossed in order to grab opposite sides of the nose of the board, while the rear leg is boned straight and the front leg is tucked up.
Frontside grab/indy: A fundamental trick performed by grabbing the toe edge between the bindings with the trailing hand. This trick is referred to as a frontside grab on a straight air, or while performing a frontside spin. When performing a backside aerial or backside rotation.
Goomba: Back hand grabs nose of the board around the back. similar to the nuclear
Japan air: The front hand grabs the toe edge just behind/on the front foot. However, the arm must go around the outside of your front knee. The board is then pulled behind the rider (tweaked).
Lien air: When performing a frontside air on transition, the snowboarder grabs heelside in front or behind the leading binding with his/her leading hand. In order for it to be a Lien air, the board can not be tweaked and has to be kept flat.
Melancholy:Performed by grabbing the heel edge between the bindings with the leading hand, while the front leg is boned forward.
Melon:A melon grab where the rider bones the front leg and turns the board the 45° angle.
Method: A fundamental trick performed by bending the knees to lift the board behind the rider's back, and grabbing the heel edge of the snowboard with the leading hand.
Mindy: Both hands grab toeside between the bindings. This is more commonly referred to as a gorilla.
Stiffy: This is a variation of the Mindy where the rider straightens their legs while holding the grab.
Mindy: Both hands grab toeside outside of the bindings.
Mute: Front hand grabs the toe edge between the bindings.
Nosegrab: Front hand grabs the nose of the board.
Nuclear: The rear hand grabs the nose of the board.
Perfect: The front hand grabs the tail of the board.
Roast beef: Back hand grabs through the legs to the heel edge.
Rocket Air: Both hands grab the nose of the board, while the rear leg is boned and the front leg is pulled up.
Rusty Trombone: A Roast Beef and Nose grab performed at the same time.
Seatbelt: The front hand reaches across the body and grabs the toe edge behind the back binding.
Slob: A mute grab where the back leg is boned straight.
Stalefish: Back hand grabs the heel edge of the board at the back foot, around the outside of the knee.
Squirrel: where the rider's front hand grabs the heel edge in front of the front foot and his rear/back hand grabs the heel edge behind the rear foot.
Steak Tar Tar: A Chicken Salad and a Roast Beef at the same time.
Swiss cheese air: The rear hand reaches between the legs and grabs the heel edge in front of the front foot while the back leg is boned.
Tailfish: The trailing hand grabs the heel edge between rear binding and the tail.
Tailgrab: The trailing hand grabs the tail of the board.
Taipan air: The front hand reaches behind the front foot and grabs the toe edge between the bindings. The front knee is then bent to touch the board tuck knee style.
Tindy: The tindy grab is a controversial grab. The trailing hand grabs between the rear binding and the tail on the toe edge.
Truck driver: When both hands grab Indy and Melon.
Flips and inverted rotations
Back flip: Flipping backwards (like a standing backflip) off of a jump.
Front flip: Flipping forward (like a standing frontflip) off of a jump.
Wildcat: A backflip performed on a straight jump, with an axis of rotation in which the snowboarder flips in a backward, cartwheel-like fashion.
Tamedog: A frontflip performed on a straight jump, with an axis of rotation in which the snowboarder flips in a forward, cartwheel-like fashion.
McTwist: A forward-flipping backside 540, performed in a halfpipe, quarterpipe, or similar obstacle.
Haakon flip: An aerial maneuver performed in a halfpipe by taking off backwards, and performing an inverted 720° rotation. The rotation mimics a half-cab leading to McTwist.
Lando-Roll: A Frontside cork 540/720
Backside Misty: After a rider learns the basic backside 540 off the toes, the Misty Flip can be an easy next progression step. Misty Flip is quite different than the backside rodeo, because instead of corking over the heel edge with a back flip motion, the Misty corks off the toe edge specifically and has more of a Front Flip in the beginning of the trick, followed by a side flip coming out to the landing.
Frontside Misty: The Frontside misty ends up looking quite a bit like a frontside rodeo in the middle of the trick, but at take off the rider uses a more frontflip type of motion to start the trick. The frontside Misty can only be done off the toes and the rider will wind up to spin frontside, then snap their trailing shoulder towards their front foot and the lead shoulder will release towards the sky. as they unwind at takeoff release.
Usually grabbing Indy the rider follows the lead shoudler through the rotation to 540, 720 and even 900.
Chicane: A chicane is a rarely done trick that involves doing a frontside 180 with a front flip on the X Axis. Opposite of the 90 roll, the chicane is frontside 90, tuck front flip, 90 degrees more to land switch, or vice versa.;Frontside Misty:The Frontside misty ends up looking quite a bit like a frontside rodeo in the middle of the trick, but at take off the rider uses a more frontflip type of motion to start the trick. The frontside Misty can only be done off the toes and the rider will wind up to spin frontside, then snap their trailing shoulder towards their front foot and the lead shoulder will release towards the sky. as they unwind at takeoff release. Usually grabbing Indy the rider follows the lead shoudler through the rotation to 540, 720 and even 900.
Frontside Rodeo: The basic frontside rodeo is all together a 540. It essentially falls into a grey area between an off axis frontside 540 and a frontside 180 with a back flip blended into it. The grab choice and different line and pop factors can make it more flipy or more of an off-axis spin. Frontside rodeo can be done off the heels or toes and with a little more spin on the Z Axis can go to 720 or 900. It is possible to do it to a 1080 but, if there is too much flip in the spin, it can be hard not to over flip when going past 720 and 900. The bigger the Z Axis spin, the later the inverted part of the rotation should be. Gaining control on big spin rodeos, may lead to a double cork or a second flip rotation in the spin, if the rider has developed a comfort level with double flips on the tramp or other gymnastic environment.;Rodeo flip; frontside rodeo: A frontward-flipping frontside spin done off the toe-edge. Most commonly performed with a 540° rotation, but also performed as a 720°, 900°, etc...
Backside Rodeo flip: A backward-flipping backside spin. Most commonly performed with a 540° rotation, but also performed as a 720°, 900°, etc...
Ninety Roll: A trick performed by back-flipping toward the landing of a jump, with a total rotation of 180° backside therefore landing fakie. Essentially, this is a backside 180 backflip. This trick is sometimes confused with a backside Rodeo, though the Ninety Roll has a
much more linear axis of rotation.
Michalchuk: on-axis backflip often grabbing melon, indy or method and rotating 540 degrees.
Doublechuk: A variation of the Michalchuk, but with two backflip rotations.
Rippey flip: A back-flipping frontside 360°, typically performed with a method grab.
Sato flip: It's something like a frontside McTwist. The rider rides up the transition of the pipe as if doing a frontside 540°, pops in the air and grabs
frontside, then throws head, shoulders, and hips down.
Cork: Very few snowboarders have done a triple cork, Torstein Horgmo was the first, and corks are usually done with 360°, 720°, 1080°,
1260°, and 1440° spins.
Inverted Hand Plants
Invert: Overlaying term for handstands on the edge of a halfpipe
Handplant: A 180° degree handplant in which the rear hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is frontside.
Sad plant: An invert with a sad grab (melon grab).
Elguerial: 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.
Eggplant: A one-handed 180° 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 switch (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.
Andrecht: A rear handed backside handplant with a front-handed grab.
Miller flip: A 360° frontside handplant to fakie.
Layback: A non-inverted handplant in which the leading hand is planted during a slide. The rider literally lays back, hence the name.
HoHo: An invert but both hands are planted at the top of the halfpipe.
Killer Stand: You make an invert but you also take your back/rear hand on front hand's elbow.
Fresh: An invert (front hand) but back flip is boned; no grab.
J-Tear: Inverted frontside 540 with a hand plant in the middle.