List of Snowboard Tricks - Miscellaneous Tricks and Identifiers

Miscellaneous Tricks and Identifiers

Jib

To ride on any surface that is not snow, or to ride on any feature in a non-traditional way. I.e. tapping or spinning on a death cookie or snow embankment.

Butter

While traveling along the surface of the snow, this trick is performed by pressuring either the nose or tail of the snowboard in such a way that the opposite half of the snowboard lifts off of the snow, allowing for a pivot-like rotation. A butter can be performed as a partial rotation (90°), which is then reverted, as a continuous rotation (180°, 360°, etc.), or as a lead-in to an aerial maneuver.

Manual; Nose manual

While riding along the snow, pressuring the nose or tail such that the opposite end of the board is raised in the air.

Pretzel

Concluding a slide trick with a 270° spin opposite the direction in which you did a rotation during the trick's initiation.

Sameway

Like a Pretzel, but spinning 270° off the rail in the same direction as you got on.

Disaster

When riding a wall ride, the rider performs a backside or frontside 180° spin and then stalls on the top of the wallride

Bonk

To tap an object or obstacle with your board.

Penguin Walk

To 'walk' while strapped into a snowboard by alternatively springing from nose to tail, propelling the snowboarder forward in a walking fashion. Also known as a "Crab" or "Duck" walk.

Tail roll; nose roll

To pivot a 180° on the snow by pressuring the nose or tail of the snowboard and rotating around.

Tail, suicide, or tap off

Quickly tapping your tail or nose on the end of the rail/box as you are about to slide off of it.

Revert

To continue spinning on the snow after landing a jump in which a spinning trick was performed. This typically occurs unintentionally when the snowboarder cannot stop rotating as he lands his trick. Alternatively, this term can refer to a 'return' to riding position after performing a butter or rail trick in which there was some rotation performed. In this case, it is often the reversal of a prior, partial rotation, returning the snowboarder to his original stance..