What is a Butter on a Snowboard?

Series Summary

Snowboarding is an extreme sport with similarities to both surfing and skateboarding, though generally snowboarding is much faster. Snowboarding requires snowboard lessons, practice, and thick skin - falling is inevitable. Learning how to snowboard can be difficult, but it is much easier to learn with lessons from an expert. Learn snowboarding tricks in this free video series on snowboarding featuring expert snowboarder Jesse Sutton. Sutton demonstrates how to do a flatground 360 on a snowboard, how to keep the snowboard flat for a flatground 360, how to nollie back-one on a snowboard, how to shift shoulders for a nollie back-one on a snowboard, how to land a nollie back-one on a snowboard, how to do a tail block on a snowboard and how to do tail block snowboard grabs.

Video Transcript

"In this section, I am going to explain to you a little bit about what a butter is. The term buttering the muffin was developed in the Eighties and Nineties when snowboarding was at its infancy. When people would just kind of do tricks on the snow and like do wheelies and nose cresses on the snow. They would be like, "Hey Man, it looks like you are buttering a muffin when you do that." And that is where the term came from. We will talk a little about that. It is basically just practicing a trick for a box or a rail, that is basically a butter. Having fun, popping little one-eighties, and doing some tail rolls, and nose rolls. Those are all butters. Basically, when you are just having fun and ripping it up, switch, regular, changing it up. That is basically what a butter is. But, we will break down a couple specific ones for you. We are going to be learning today a Flag Ground 360, which is basically the most simple type of butter. Everybody starts with those. Move it up to maybe a Nali Back One, and then we are going to mix it up with a little bit harder tricks. Some Tail Blocks, and my personal favorite, Cab to Nose and Switch Three Out. Those are really fun, so let us get going."