Dictionary

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• Air - getting you and your board completely air borne
• Avalanche - when a layer of snow is weak and can't support the weight of the snow that has fallen
• Avalanche Shovel - Jumps, Ditches, Avalanches. Use if for everything
• Backcountry - places you would go where not a lot of others do
• Bail - give out or give up and fall while snowboarding
• Battleship - rail that angles up then flattens out then angles down again
• Betty - any girl who is only snowboarding for the attention
• Biff - To crash, plain and simple
• Bingo - when someone sticks three 360s in a row
• Bip - the region on your body between your butt and either of your hips
• Bomb - To ride straight down the run
• Boot Pack - path that is created by someone breaking trail
• Burton Bible - Burton's annual catalog
• Burton Snowboards - Maker of all things snowboarding
• Comp - gathering of riders to find out who is the best among them
• Dump - amount of fresh snow that has or will fall
• Edge - metal edges that run along either side of your snowboard
• Fakie - riding with your opposite foot forward
• Four Nines - Four 900 spins in a run
• Goggles - used to protect your eyes
• Goofy - having your right foot as your forward most foot
• Helmet - protect a snowboarder's head
• Hip Pads - keep the bruises on your hips to a minimum
• Huck - when someone goes off of a jump and goes big
• I-Beam - a strip of material that is put into the core of a snowboard
• Jib - to snowboard on obstacles that are not regularly intended for riding on
• Kicker - A Jump
• Lens - translucent piece of plastic in either glasses or goggles
• Lip - the very last part you will hit
• Night Riding - snowboarding after it gets dark
• Post Hole - the imprint you make when hiking
• Rainbow Rail - arched rail
• Runway - the path before a jump
• Snowboard Socks - Keep your feet warm, all day long
• Switch - riding with the opposite foot forward then you normally would