Advanced Snowboarding Lingo

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"KEVIN BYFORD: Hi. I'm Kevin Byford with the Ski and Snowboard Schools of Aspen on behalf of the Expert Village. Okay, so snowboard lingo. What's hot and what's not. Let's start by what's not. You can get rid of "knuckle dragger." Next to that get rid of "shred Betty" and last but not the least "dude." Don't use that to your friends or for people you don't know. What's hot nowadays? Well, "jibber." You jibber? Jibbing. Jib monkey. Jib bonk. These are the young kids and what they're doing on the board. They're jumping around the hill, often with obstacles. The jibbers are the kids, the act is jibbing, and when they're jumping off something--they're honestly aren't hitting it, that's "jib-bonking." When things are good, when your friends come back from a great day of snowboarding they tell you how sick the freshies were, it's not the smoothie, it's the powder. "Sick freshies" means great powder day. You want to go in the realm of freestyle snowboarding, we can go with many things. Backside 180's, frontside 180's, that's spinning and landing tail first down the hill. Backside 360's, it's for revolution and then start doing two revolutions, that's 720; three revolutions that's a 1080. You want to start going inverted, you can do a "crippler." You can do a rodeo. You can do a McTwist. All these are names of movements that you do when you're on the board, when you're upside down. So "grom," another great word for the littlest of snowboarders who are ripping around the mountain; definitely I want to call a young one a grom. What I'm wanting to get rid off, let's get rid of "shred." It's very passe. So when you hear you friends, they'll call it sick, a gnarly. It probably means that one of the great day and they're doing some pretty extreme stuff. Like go have a great day in the snowboard. They tell you it's a sick day, amazing day. If I'm doing some stuff, maybe off cliffs and stuff and some good jumps, maybe gnarly might come in there. Gnarly jumps, gnarly runs, just being gnarly, being--going after it."