Snowboarding

 The backside of the snowboard is the side where your heels sit. The backside of a snowboarder is the side to which his/her back faces. Snowboard bindings that don’t use a baseplate, so the boot sits directly on the snowboard. Some riders say it gives them a better feel for the snow and more control. Others find them just a worthless gimmick, no better than baseplates.  Any rotation where the rider approaches or lands “blind” to the direction of travel such that he/she must look over his/her shoulder. An air performed with this technique usually increases the level of difficulty.  **Competition** Like their motorcycle counterparts in motorcross, boardercross participants race through turns and obstacles and jumps in heats of 4-6 riders  To hit a non-snow object with the snowboard while riding as part of a trick.  To catch air off a jump or a halfpipe  A more enthusiastic version of to the verb “to do”, e.g. “Check out this shot of Ryan busting a huge air!”  The amount of space beneath the center of a snowboard when it lays on a flat surface and its weight rests on the tip and tail.  The angle at which either foot points pigeon-toed or duck-footed. The angle of your feet affects whether your knees bend toward or away from each other. ** stance ** Your stance is centered when your bindings are mounted on the snowboard so the distance between the tip and the front binding is the same as that between the tail and the rear binding. With your bindings set this way, you would have similar control riding forwards or backwards  Vibration of the snowboard as a result of high speed, tight turns, and/or icy conditions  A term to describe the tracks left by a snowcat grooming a trail. Corduroy is usually great for laying out clean turns.  Reducing vibration (chatter) to increase handling. A shock-absorbent material like rubber is sometimes laminated into boards for this purpose.  Separation of the layers in your snowboard, usually the result of long-term usage, impact from crashes, or a board defect  Your stance is directional when your bindings are mounted on the snowboard so the distance between the tip and the front binding is different from that between the tail and the rear binding. With your bindings set this way, you would ride more easily in your preferred direction  You are duckfooted if your stance angles have your toes pointing outward like a duck.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The length of your snowboard’s metal edge that makes contact with the snow. When you turn, you shift your weight to your effective edge.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Riding backwards, meaning the opposite direction than your usual stance. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Like a plumb line is to wallpaper, the fall line is to a slope. It’s the path of gravity’s pull on you down the hill. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The part of the halfpipe between the two walls.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Describes the stiffness of a snowboard. Different degrees of flex are better for different styles of riding <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The degree to which the highbacks of traditional bindings or the boots of plate bindings keep your ankles and calves bent  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Snowboarding for fun on any terrain, not including a halfpipe. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> snowboarding ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Usually associated with riding a halfpipe, but encompasses any kind of riding that includes tricks. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">hand/foot ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The hand/foot closest to the nose of the snowboard. For regular-footed riders, the front is the left hand and foot. For goofy footed riders, the front is the right hand and foot.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The frontside of the snowboard is the side where your toes sit. The frontside of a snowboarder is the side to which his/her front faces **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> footed ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Riding with the right foot closest to the nose of the snowboard.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To hold the edge of the snowboard with one or both hands during an air or other trick.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Built with snow, a halfpipe is a vertical U-shaped structure used in freestyle snowboarding. Like a skateboarding halfpipe, riders use the opposing walls to get air and perform tricks as they travel down the fall line of the slope. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> boots ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Similar to ski boots, hard boots are rigid and made from hard plastic. They are typically used for carving and racing. Many freeriders dislike the stiffness and prefer the soft boots typically used with strap bindings. The Belligerent" Sinch Strap gives the convenience of step-ins without sacrificing the comfort of soft boots. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">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, etc. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> edge ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The edge of the snowboard where the heels sit. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> turn ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A turn made on the heelside edge. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> bindings ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This type of binding includes a piece that supports the ankle and calf while edging and making heelside turns. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Pattern ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The layout of holes on the top of a snowboard, through which the bindings are fastened. Both three- and four-hole patterns are standard, but most snowboard companies use the 4-hole pattern.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The piece of metal laminated within a snowboard in order to secure the screws that attach the bindings.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To ride on a non-snow surface, e.g. rails, logs etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A lasso-like device used to attach the snowboard to the front foot so it won’t slide away while getting in or out of the bindings.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The top edge of the halfpipe wall.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The front end of the snowboard, specifically the tip.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Borrowed from skateboarding, to Ollie is to get air by first lifting the front foot, springing off the back foot, then landing on both feet. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Dragon ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A grooming machine used to groom halfpipes. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Binding ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Similar to ski bindings, a plate binding requires hard boots that connect directly to the snowboard through a flat plate. Unlike ski bindings, however, plate bindings are typically not designed to release the foot.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To ride regardless of posted signage; e.g. when the powder is out-of-bounds or the halfpipe is closed.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Someone who pretends to be something he/she is not, in an attempt to impress his/her audience. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">pipe ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Designed like a halfpipe but with only one wall.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Part of a snowboard, consisting of a sidewall and an edge. Snowboards have two rails.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To make hard, fast turns. Not to be confused with railing (n.), which is a handrail- type structure on which freestyle riders might jib. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> hand/foot ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The hand/foot closest to the tail of the snowboard. For regular-footed riders, the rear is the right hand and foot. For goofy-footed riders, the rear is the left hand and foot. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> footed ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Riding with the left foot closest to the nose of the snowboard.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The opposite of camber, so when the snowboard is placed on a flat surface, it rests only on the center portion. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> down the windows ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What it looks like a person is trying to do when he/she is off-balance or out of control and rotates his/her arms in an attempt to recover. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> deck ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The horizontal part of the halfpipe wall that serves as a vantage point, waiting area, or walkway to the uphill end of the pipe. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> length ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The range of the bottom of the snowboard that comes in contact with the snow.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nonspecific length of time for which someone rides, e.g. “We had a great session this morning before it started storming.” **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Strap ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">An innovative solution by Belligerent" to the hassles of conventional straps and the shortcomings of step-ins. The Sinch Strap keeps your desired ratchet setting and allows you to get in and out one-handed, without sitting down. The patented system retrofits to any existing baseplate and is also a feature of Belligerents" new complete binding line. (Visit www.belligerent.com or call 619.581.5080 for more information.) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Style **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Competition // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A freestyle event where the participant is judged on tricks performed while riding over a series of assorted jumps. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> boots ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Boots worn for freestyle and freeride snowboarding. Most riders prefer the comfort and range of motion of soft boots to the rigidity of hard boots. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> check ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To slide sideways in order to quickly slow down before a jump or other situation where speed control is necessary.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">How one’s feet are positioned on the snowboard, as in regular or goofy-footed, but also including the width and angles of the placement. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-in binding ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Like a ski binding, the rider steps into the step-in binding to engage it and pulls a lever to disengage. Special boots with compatible mechanisms are required for this kind of binding. Although some riders prefer step-ins, one of the largest problems is that the mechanism clogs with snow. The rider then has to sit down and clean it out before the binding will engage properly. The "Belligerent" Sinch Strap, however, allows the convenience of step-ins without the clog. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> pad ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The piece of non-slip material on the snowboard, attached next to the back binding. The stomp pad gives you a place to rest your back foot when youre getting on or off the lift.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The end of the snowboard closest to your back foot. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> edge ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The edge of the snowboard where your toes sit. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> turn ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A turn made on the toeside edge. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The initial curved part of a halfpipe wall between the flat of the bottom and the vertical section of the wall.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">As in skiing, to ride perpendicular to the fall line of the slope. In the halfpipe, a freestyle rider traverses the flat bottom in order to perform tricks on either wall. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> tip ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A snowboard whose nose and tail are shaped identically, so the board will ride equally well in either direction. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The topmost portion of the walls of a halfpipe. They are vertical in order to allow the rider to fly straight up from the halfpipe wall.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The opposing sections of the halfpipe. A wall is comprised of a transition (where the rider begins the ascent) and vertical section (where the rider launches and performs a trick). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">backside of the snowboard is the side where your heels sit. The backside of a snowboarder is the side to which his/her back faces. Snowboard bindings that don’t use a baseplate, so the boot sits directly on the snowboard. Some riders say it gives them a better feel for the snow and more control. Others find them just a worthless gimmick, no better than baseplates. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Any rotation where the rider approaches or lands “blind” to the direction of travel such that he/she must look over his/her shoulder. An air performed with this technique usually increases the level of difficulty. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> **Competition** Like their motorcycle counterparts in motorcross, boardercross participants race through turns and obstacles and jumps in heats of 4-6 riders <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> To hit a non-snow object with the snowboard while riding as part of a trick.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">To catch air off a jump or a halfpipe  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A more enthusiastic version of to the verb “to do”, e.g. “Check out this shot of Ryan busting a huge air!”  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The amount of space beneath the center of a snowboard when it lays on a flat surface and its weight rests on the tip and tail.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The angle at which either foot points pigeon-toed or duck-footed. The angle of your feet affects whether your knees bend toward or away from each other. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> stance ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Your stance is centered when your bindings are mounted on the snowboard so the distance between the tip and the front binding is the same as that between the tail and the rear binding. With your bindings set this way, you would have similar control riding forwards or backwards  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Vibration of the snowboard as a result of high speed, tight turns, and/or icy conditions  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A term to describe the tracks left by a snowcat grooming a trail. Corduroy is usually great for laying out clean turns.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reducing vibration (chatter) to increase handling. A shock-absorbent material like rubber is sometimes laminated into boards for this purpose.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Separation of the layers in your snowboard, usually the result of long-term usage, impact from crashes, or a board defect  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Your stance is directional when your bindings are mounted on the snowboard so the distance between the tip and the front binding is different from that between the tail and the rear binding. With your bindings set this way, you would ride more easily in your preferred direction  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">You are duckfooted if your stance angles have your toes pointing outward like a duck.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The length of your snowboard’s metal edge that makes contact with the snow. When you turn, you shift your weight to your effective edge.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Riding backwards, meaning the opposite direction than your usual stance. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Like a plumb line is to wallpaper, the fall line is to a slope. It’s the path of gravity’s pull on you down the hill. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The part of the halfpipe between the two walls.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Describes the stiffness of a snowboard. Different degrees of flex are better for different styles of riding <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The degree to which the highbacks of traditional bindings or the boots of plate bindings keep your ankles and calves bent  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Snowboarding for fun on any terrain, not including a halfpipe. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> snowboarding ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Usually associated with riding a halfpipe, but encompasses any kind of riding that includes tricks. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">hand/foot ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The hand/foot closest to the nose of the snowboard. For regular-footed riders, the front is the left hand and foot. For goofy footed riders, the front is the right hand and foot.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The frontside of the snowboard is the side where your toes sit. The frontside of a snowboarder is the side to which his/her front faces **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> footed ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Riding with the right foot closest to the nose of the snowboard.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To hold the edge of the snowboard with one or both hands during an air or other trick.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Built with snow, a halfpipe is a vertical U-shaped structure used in freestyle snowboarding. Like a skateboarding halfpipe, riders use the opposing walls to get air and perform tricks as they travel down the fall line of the slope. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> boots ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Similar to ski boots, hard boots are rigid and made from hard plastic. They are typically used for carving and racing. Many freeriders dislike the stiffness and prefer the soft boots typically used with strap bindings. The Belligerent" Sinch Strap gives the convenience of step-ins without sacrificing the comfort of soft boots. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">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, etc. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> edge ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The edge of the snowboard where the heels sit. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> turn ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A turn made on the heelside edge. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> bindings ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This type of binding includes a piece that supports the ankle and calf while edging and making heelside turns. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Pattern ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The layout of holes on the top of a snowboard, through which the bindings are fastened. Both three- and four-hole patterns are standard, but most snowboard companies use the 4-hole pattern.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The piece of metal laminated within a snowboard in order to secure the screws that attach the bindings.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To ride on a non-snow surface, e.g. rails, logs etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A lasso-like device used to attach the snowboard to the front foot so it won’t slide away while getting in or out of the bindings.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The top edge of the halfpipe wall.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The front end of the snowboard, specifically the tip.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Borrowed from skateboarding, to Ollie is to get air by first lifting the front foot, springing off the back foot, then landing on both feet. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Dragon ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A grooming machine used to groom halfpipes. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Binding ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Similar to ski bindings, a plate binding requires hard boots that connect directly to the snowboard through a flat plate. Unlike ski bindings, however, plate bindings are typically not designed to release the foot.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To ride regardless of posted signage; e.g. when the powder is out-of-bounds or the halfpipe is closed.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Someone who pretends to be something he/she is not, in an attempt to impress his/her audience. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">pipe ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Designed like a halfpipe but with only one wall.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Part of a snowboard, consisting of a sidewall and an edge. Snowboards have two rails.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To make hard, fast turns. Not to be confused with railing (n.), which is a handrail- type structure on which freestyle riders might jib. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> hand/foot ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The hand/foot closest to the tail of the snowboard. For regular-footed riders, the rear is the right hand and foot. For goofy-footed riders, the rear is the left hand and foot. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> footed ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Riding with the left foot closest to the nose of the snowboard.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The opposite of camber, so when the snowboard is placed on a flat surface, it rests only on the center portion. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> down the windows ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What it looks like a person is trying to do when he/she is off-balance or out of control and rotates his/her arms in an attempt to recover. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> deck ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The horizontal part of the halfpipe wall that serves as a vantage point, waiting area, or walkway to the uphill end of the pipe. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> length ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The range of the bottom of the snowboard that comes in contact with the snow.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nonspecific length of time for which someone rides, e.g. “We had a great session this morning before it started storming.” **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Strap ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">An innovative solution by Belligerent" to the hassles of conventional straps and the shortcomings of step-ins. The Sinch Strap keeps your desired ratchet setting and allows you to get in and out one-handed, without sitting down. The patented system retrofits to any existing baseplate and is also a feature of Belligerents" new complete binding line. (Visit www.belligerent.com or call 619.581.5080 for more information.) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Style **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Competition // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A freestyle event where the participant is judged on tricks performed while riding over a series of assorted jumps. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> boots ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Boots worn for freestyle and freeride snowboarding. Most riders prefer the comfort and range of motion of soft boots to the rigidity of hard boots. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> check ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To slide sideways in order to quickly slow down before a jump or other situation where speed control is necessary.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">How one’s feet are positioned on the snowboard, as in regular or goofy-footed, but also including the width and angles of the placement.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Baseless bindings **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Fall **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Flat **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Forward **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Heel ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">/Overhang **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Transition a.k.a. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Vertical a.k.a. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Baseless bindings **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Fall **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Flat **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Forward **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Heel ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">/Overhang **