Tips & Tricks
There are many different tricks to do while riding a snowboard; here are a few:
GRAB TRICKS:
BACKSIDE GRAB: the rider grabs heel edge with front hand between bindings.
LIEN: same as backside grab but done frontside.
FRONTSIDE GRAB: rider grabs toe edge with back hand between bindings.
INDY GRAB: same as frontside grab but done backside.
TAIL GRAB: grab tail end with back hand.
NOSE GRAB: grab nose end with front hand.
CRAIL: rider grabs toe edge in front of the front foot with the back hand.
ROAST BEEF: rider grabs heel edge with front hand between legs.
SLIDER: rider grabs toe side in front of back toe and slides hand off the tail of the board.
360 BUDDHA: rider turns in air so toe side is facing forward. Then grab the heel side of the board and push up so that the rider is almost sitting on the board. Then do a 360 degree turn in this position and then try to land it.
FLIP TRICKS
McTWIST: rider does a backside 540 degree turn while doing a front flip at the same time, landing nose-first.
INVERTED 720: basically the same as a McTwist, but rotating 720 degrees and landing tail-first (fakie).
MISTY FLIP: a partially inverted 540 front flip done off of a straight jump.
RODEO FLIP: rider rotates either to frontside or backside while doing a flip. Can be a 540, 720, 900, or 1080 degree trick.
