How to Learn Extreme Snowmobiling Terms

Extreme snowmobiling is an emerging X-winter sport. It involves performing freestyle tricks and jumps on a 500 pound machine. Many of the tricks you see extreme motocross riders do, you can see extreme snowmobilers do. If you are interested in learning more about extreme snowmobiling follow these steps to learn terms related to this X-sport.

Instructions

1. Understand that your "sled" is your snowmobile. However, this term is generally used to describe a racing snowmobile.

2. Lean back. A backflip occurs when a snowmobile launches off a ramp or incline and completes a reverse somersault in mid-air and lands upright. The first successful extreme snowmobile backflip in competition was documented in 2003.

3. Tuck under. A front flip is a mid-air somersault on a snowmobile that ends with the snowmobile landing upright and continuing on its path.

4. Go to the "backcountry." Backcountry is a term used to describe the wilderness areas where snowmobiling enthusiasts carve their own trails. This type of extreme snowmobiling is popular in Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Wyoming extreme snowmobilers seem to prefer snowmobiling track racing and trail riding.

5. Blaze your own path on "virgin snow." "Virgin snow" is a term used to describe snow that has not yet been disturbed by people. Areas with "virgin snow" are great because they are not rutty and they tend to have the best powder.

6. Feel the wind beneath your wings. "Hang time" is the extreme snowmobiling term for how long your snowmobile flies through the air before landing. At the peak of your jump you feel almost weightless and it is an extreme experience.

7. Soar through the air like "Superman." The extreme snowmobiling term "Superman" is used to describe a trick where the snowmobile is launched and the rider's body is in a horizontal position above the snowmobile as they hang onto the handles. The term derives from the appearance of the rider who looks like Superman as he flies through the air.