单板滑雪术语介绍
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单板滑雪术语介绍
Cant
The angle at which
either foot points pigeon-toed or duck-footed.
Foot angle affects whether the
snowboarder’s
knees bend toward or away from each other.
Carve
To snowboard fast through corners.
Centered Stance
Stance is centered
when bindings are mounted on the snowboard with
the distance between the tip
and the front
binding is the same as that between the tail and
the rear binding. This allows for
similar
control riding forwards or backwards.
Chatter
Vibration of the snowboard as a result of high
speed, tight turns or icy conditions.
Corduroy
A term to describe the tracks
left on a trail by a snowcat groomer. Corduroy is
usually great for
making clean turns.
Corkscrew
Sideways rotation.
Crail Air
An aerial manoeuvre in which the
athlete’s rear hand grabs the toe edge in front of
the front foot
while the rear leg is straight.
Crippler Air
An aerial manoeuvre in
which the snowboarder performs a 180-degree flip.
The athlete
approaches the wall of the
halfpipe riding forward and lands riding forward.
Dampening
A shock-absorbent material
similar to rubber that is sometimes laminated into
snowboards to
reduce vibration (or chatter)
and increase handling.
Detune
To
slightly dull the edges of the snowboard.
Double Grab
Performing two separate grab
tricks in one aerial manoeuvre.
Double-
Handed Grab
Grabbing the snowboard with both
hands in an aerial manoeuvre.
Duckfoot
A snowboard stance where
the athlete’s toes point outward.
Effective Edge
The length of the
snowboard’s metal edge that makes contact with the
snow.
Eggplant
A one-handed
180-degree invert in which the front hand is
planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall
and
the rotation is backside.
Elgeurial
An invert in which the halfpipe wall is
approached fakie, the rear hand is planted, a
360-degree
backside rotation is made, and the
rider lands going forward.
Fakie
Riding backwards.
Fall Line
The
path that a snowboarder takes as heshe travels
down a steep pitch.
Flat bottom
The
area in the halfpipe between the two walls.
Flatground
Tricks performed on a flat
slope.
Flex
The stiffness (or
flexibility) of the snowboard. Different degrees
of flex are used for different
styles of ding
Snowboarding for fun, not competition, on any
terrain except for a halfpipe.
Freestyle
Snowboarding
The type of snowboarding that
includes tricks; for example, riding a halfpipe.
Front Foot
The foot closest to the
front of the snowboard. For regular-footed riders,
the front is the left foot.
For goofy-footed
riders, the front is the right foot.
Front Hand
The hand closest to the front
of the snowboard.
Frontside
The side
of the snowboard the athlete's chest faces toward.
Frontside Air
Any air
performed on the frontside wall of the halfpipe.
FrontsideHandplant
A manoeuvre in
which the rider places the front hand on the lip
of the halfpipe and rotates 180
degrees in the
frontside direction.
Frontside Rotation
Rotating counter-clockwise for a regular-
footed snowboarder or rotating clockwise for a
goofy-footed snowboarder.
Frontside
Wall
The side of the halfpipe that is in front
of the snowboarder when heshe rides straight down
the
d Lean
The degree to which the
highbacks of traditional bindings or the boots of
plate bindings keep an
athlete’s ankles and
calves bent over hisher toes.
GoofyFooted
Riding a snowboard with the right foot
forward.
Grab
To hold the edge of the
snowboard with one or both hands during an air or
other trick.
Haaken Flip
An inverted
aerial in which the snowboarder approaches the
wall of the halfpipe riding backwards.
At the
lip of the halfpipe, the athlete flips backwards
into the pipe and rotates 720 degrees, landing
forward down in the pipe. Named after its
originator TerjeHaakonsen.
Halfpipe
A
vertical U-shaped snow structure used in freestyle
snowboarding to catch air and perform tricks
by travelling back and forth from one side of
the halfpipe to the other.
HardBoots
Similar to alpine ski boots, hard boots are
rigid and made from plastic. They are typically
used for
carving and racing.
Heel
DragOverhang
Bindings should as centered as
possible between the toe and heel edges. When they
are placed too
far toward the heel side, the
heels drag in the snow while riding and interfere
with turns.
HeelEdge
The edge of the
snowboard closest to where the rider’s heels sit.
HeelsideTurn
A turn made on the
heelside edge.
HighbackBindings
A
type of binding that includes a piece that
supports the ankle and calf while edging and
making
heelside turns.
Ho Ho
Any two-
handed handplant.
HolePattern
The pattern
of holes on the top of a snowboard through which
the bindings are fastened.
Indy Air
An
aerial manoeuvre performed on the backside wall
with the rear hand grabbing the board
between
the bindings. Indy can also be used to describe
the location of the grab.
Insert
A piece
of metal laminated within a snowboard to secure
the screws that attach the bindings.
Invert
Ahandplant.
Inverted 180
An aerial
manoeuvre in which the snowboarder performs a
180-degree flip. The athlete
approaches the
wall of the halfpipe riding forward and lands
riding forward.
Inverted Aerial
A trick in
which the rider is airborne and upside-down.
JapanAir
An aerial manoeuvre in which the
athlete’s front hand grabs the toe edge between
the feet, the
front knee is tucked, the board
is pulled up and the back is arched.
Jib
To ride on a non-snow surface such as rails
and logs.
J-Tear
Named after its
originator Mike Jacoby, this maneuver involves an
invert in which the athlete
rotates roughly
540 degrees in a front-side direction while
planting one or both hands on the lip of
the
wall.
Leash
A device used to attach
the snowboard to the athlete’s front foot stopping
it from sliding away
while getting in or out
of the bindings.
Late
Incorporating a
move into a trick just before the trick's
completion.
Layback Handplant
A
manoeuvre in which the rider places the rear hand
on the lip of the halfpipe and rotates 180
degrees in the frontside direction.
Lien Air
An aerial manoeuvre on the
frontside wall where the rider grabs the
snowboard’s heel edge with
his front
hand and leans over the nose of the board.
Lip
The top edge of the halfpipe wall.