| Approach: |
- The in-run and line to a feature.
- The movements and tactics a rider uses before reaching the takeoff zone of a feature.Areas in the park and pipe designed for setting speed and preparing to use a feature; not good places to stand
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Landing/landing zone:
The area of a jump that includes the landing and the runout where rider lands after having completed their maneuver and are still moving at high velocity. Not the ideal place to hang out in a park. Also known as a pillow. |
Maneuver:
Your trick, jib, air-time, grab, or whatever mad, stylie thing you throw down between takeoff and landing. Simply put, what a rider does to look cool after leaving the snow (takeoff zone) when using a terrain feature. |
Takeoff: |
- Movements that riders make to set them into a maneuver on any terrain feature.
- The rider's action at a feature's takeoff (see pop).
- The point on a feature where the rider leaves the ground also know as the lip on a jump or the coping of a halfpipe. The part of a terrain feature that assists riders into the air or onto an alternative sliding surface
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Trajectory:
The path your body will take through the air or over a rail. It's important to adjust your perpendicularity relative to the change in slope beneath you while moving along your trajectory |
Lingo |
- Airtime: Time spent not in contact with the earth
- Boost: Developing big air off a takeoff. Most commonly associated with boosting out of the pipe-airing far above the deck of the pipe. Pop, when a rider makes movements to get into the air and go big
- Busting: Throwing down a mad trick. Performing a maneuver, going big, and looking cool
- Deck out: While riding up a pipe wall, airing out onto the deck
- Dropping/dropping in: The act of starting your approach to a feature. What you say to your fellow parkmates as a courtesy and way of queuing up who's next when the park gets a little busy. Don't bogart someone else's drop
- Feature: All the man-made goodies available in the park-each rail, box, jump, spine, halfpipe, quarter-pipe, picnic table, etc., is an element or feature available to ride or jib on
- Grab: A general term for the variety of moves where the rider intentionally uses a hand to grab their board(s). These add style to the rider's maneuver and can actually enhance balance and/or spin control. Listen for terms like tip, tail, mute, indy, toxic, safety, japan, stalefish, and others to name grabs that describe specific grab combinations
- Hucking: Associated with throwing your body into the air-big air, perhaps beyond one's skill level. Huckers may or may not lack skill, but don't lack fear. A huckfest is where there is a quorum of huckers hucking
- New school: Current image, stylo. The movement of the newer freestyle influence found in the pipe and park. A culture and attitude describing the progression of skiing/riding style, transcending lingo, riding, clothing, competitions, etc.
- Riding: Generic term to describe what skiers and snowboarder do
- Switch: Riding backwards, with the non-dominant foot forward. Also known as fakie, cab
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| Features/Terrain |
- Apex: Crest of the turn; top of the arc above a pipe
- Basin: Enclosed bowl. Just as the name suggests, the feature is in the shape of a bowl or spoon-shaped
- Deck:
- The top horizontal portion of a halfpipe wall, past the lip, where one can "deck out" while riding a pipe or ride alongside the lip and drop in.
- A walkway to hike to the top of a halfpipe.
- The flat portion of a tabletop or step-down between the lip and landing zone. Also known as a rollout deck.
- Flat-bottom: The snow between the trannys of a halfpipe
- Fun box: Usually square or rectangular, slightly higher than snow, and wider than a rail. Also called an icebox
- Halfpipe: A snow structure consisting of opposing radical transition walls of the same height and size. Ditch-like feature running down the fall line with a relatively flat bottom, transitions on both sides, and a rollout deck. Riders travel back and forth from wall to wall while moving down the line
- Hit: Jump
- Jump: Bump of some sort or tabletop that can be used to catch air. Types:
- Hip: Like a spine, but with a distinct takeoff ramp and landing zone
- Tabletop: Has a takeoff ramp, flat deck, and a landing zone
- Whale: Has a takeoff ramp. The deck rises up and away from the takeoff, then rolls down to create the landing zone. Looking from the side the takeoff looks like the tail and the knuckle is where the blowhole on a whale would be
- Kicker: The jump's ramp. Specifically, the takeoff area. Also known as a booter
- Knuckle: The top of the landing zone on a tabletop jump. Also called the crown of the landing
- Lip: the top of the takeoff ramp of a feature
- Quarter-pipe: A half U-shaped transition, facing uphill. Commonly found at the bottom of a halfpipe or on the sides of tabletops.
- Rail: Short for handrail. Any piece of material set up to slide on. Can be made of wood, metal, or plastic. Types:
- Single barrel-a rail in the shape of a single pipe
- Double barrel-Two above mentioned rails, conjoined, fused together
- Flat bar-A rail with a rectangular shape, lengthwise. The grinding side of the rail, usually a minimum of three inches
- Triple barrel-Three rails fused together
- Shapes:
- Straight
- Rainbow
- Flat
- Up
- Down
- Kink
- S
- C
- W's, X's, T's, expo rails, urbans (Any of the above rails with the added danger of a staircase built into the snow), Scorpions, in-kinks, out-kinks
- Double fall line kinks and curves
- Roller Coaster
- Battleship/Trapezoid/A-frame
- Dragon/Whale Tail (like roller coaster with an upward kick off the end)
- Rollers: Series of undulations. Also known as rhythm section, camelbacks, camel humps, and pump bumps
- Spine: A manmade snow feature resembling the shape of an oblong pyramid. The peak, is usually parallel to the fall line and the base has a smooth, radial transition to the immediately surrounding terrain. Comes to a point on the top, with two smooth edges leading up to the point. Jumping takes place where the takeoff and landing meet.
- Transition/tranny: Can either be a takeoff or landing zone. Transitions progressively arc from flat to steep, or steep to flat, and enable a rider to acclimate without great compression from the snow
- Vert: Steepest section of the wall in a quarter- or halfpipe, angled to keep rider in the pipe
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