List of Snowboard Tricks - Inverted Hand Plants

Inverted Hand Plants

Invert

Overlaying term for handstands on the edge of a halfpipe

Handplant

A 180° degree handplant in which the rear hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is frontside.

Sad plant

An invert with a sad grab (melon grab).

Elguerial

An invert where the halfpipe wall is approached fakie, the rear hand is planted, a 360 degree backside rotation is made, and the rider lands going forward. Named after Eddie Elguera.

Eggplant

A one-handed 180° invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is backside.

Eggflip

An eggplant where the rider chooses to flip over in order to re-enter the pipe instead or rotating 180 degrees. This trick is performed forward to fakie or switch (fakie to forward).

McEgg

An invert where the rider plants the front hand on the wall, rotated 540 degrees in a backside direction and lands riding forward.

Andrecht

A rear handed backside handplant with a front-handed grab.

Miller flip

A 360° frontside handplant to fakie.

Layback

A non-inverted handplant in which the leading hand is planted during a slide. The rider literally lays back, hence the name.

HoHo

An invert but both hands are planted at the top of the halfpipe.

Killer Stand

You make an invert but you also take your back/rear hand on front hand's elbow.

Fresh

An invert (front hand) but back flip is boned; no grab

J-Tear

Inverted frontside 540 with a hand plant in the middle. Originally a variation on the Jacoby Terror Air. This trick was invented by Mike Jacoby for a contest that didn't allow inverted aerials; inverted handplants, however, were acceptable.