Snowboarding lingo
As a general rule, curling commentators explain every rule of the game on every shot. Snowboard commentators, on the other hand, will bust out descriptions like “backside 900 switch melon teakettle coffeepot wingdings” with scant details on what that means.
So let’s take a crash course, drawing heavily on this excellent video by Snowboard Addiction.
Stances
Regular means your left foot is leading. Goofy means right.
Spin directions
Backside: When you’ve gone 90 degrees, your backside is facing down the hill.
Frontside: The other way.
You’ll also hear terms referring to how many degrees someone has turned. As we might remember from geometry class, a circle has 360 degrees, so a “360” is one revolution. A 720 is two. A 900 is two and a half, and so on.
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