Slopestyle - Tricks

Tricks

Over the years that slopestyle has been around, the tricks have evolved drastically. When riding and skiing slopestyle, snowboarders/skiers’ tricks mainly fall into 4 categories: spins, grabs, jibs, and flips. The biggest spin ever done in a competition for skiing (a Big Jump competition) is a switch 1800, which is 5 rotations with a backwards take-off, done by Torin Yater-Wallace. In snowboarding the biggest trick ever is a triple cork 1440 by Torstein Horgmo. In a grab, the snowboarder or skier grabs his or her board or skis. Grab tricks differ depending on where the boarder or skier grabs their board or ski, and where their board or ski is when they grab it (arms crossed, on the nose, the tail, underneath them, behind them, in front of them, etc.). Grinds are when a boarder or skier slides on a rail. For skiers, the list of spin ins and spin outs of rails is endless and there are many parts of the skis to slide on to be called different tricks. For snowboarders however, there isn’t too much variation when it comes to grinding, but many snowboarders grinds are simply done by jumping onto and off of rails. The last major trick variation is a flip. Flips range from just being front or back-flips, to something that’s called a rodeo and or “corked” spin. Rodeo's combine either front or back flips with spins as well from as much as 180° backside or frontside. Corked spins are off axis spins where the boarder or skier is spinning with their board or skis perpendicular to the ground in an off axis degree. Another trick is a misty flip, which is an off-axis front flip combined with a spin. There are also Rodeo Flips, which are off-axis backflips, combined with a spin. There are basically infinite combinations of these tricks & spins, and grabs.