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Snowboarding Style Terminology

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#1 ·
Alright, so I've been seeing some confusion as to what style of riding people do. Not sure if there was a post about this, but my search didn't pull up anything. Now, I'm not sure that I myself am completely right on this so feel free to add input.

Here are my explanations for the various type of riding styles:

All-mountain: This is your groomer cruiser. This guy will hit just about anything that is groomed. They will also hit ungroomed trails so long as it is in-bounds.

All-mountain Freestyle: This is your groomer cruiser on drugs. This rider will hit anything groomed or in-bounds ungroomed while launching of natural kickers, jibbing natural features, bonking everything, buttering, flat land tricks, etc... This rider will also take the occasional park lap on the way down.

Freestyle: This is your park rat. This guy literally pitches a tent in the terrain park and hits anything in it.

Jib: This is your park mouse. This guy will only hit rails and boxes and rides uber noodly boards.

Urban Jib: This is your broke park mouse. This guy will gather a bunch of fellow mice and jib on anything they can in the streets. School yard rails are a popular breeding place for them.

Free-ride: This is your powder sniffing, power carving, tree line eating, cliff dropping master. This guy's name is KillClimbz and he'll take a minute of untracked powder over a full day of riding at any resort any time.

Pipe: Self explanatory.
 
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#67 ·
quick question

Hey guys. I'm doing a Japanese to English translation and I'm not well-versed in snowboard technology. Could you tell me what the japanese--which should be very similar to the English --is referring to in English?

In referring to types of snowboarding an skiing styles:
1. Is there a "technical" style, or something similar?
2. Cob, cob, Cobb style? Something like that?
3. Is there a "powder" style?

Thanks in advance!
 
#73 · (Edited)
Hey guys. I'm doing a Japanese to English translation and I'm not well-versed in snowboard technology. Could you tell me what the japanese--which should be very similar to the English --is referring to in English?

In referring to types of snowboarding an skiing styles:
1. Is there a "technical" style, or something similar?
2. Cob, cob, Cobb style? Something like that?
3. Is there a "powder" style?

Thanks in advance!
1.) I think you are talking about like in skateboarding where there are tricks while not initially looking like impressive tricks are extremely hard to hit because of the level of difficulty. A "Technical" style then would most likely be seen in slopestyle competitions, and rail jams format competitions.

2.) Cab -
Caballerial, Full Cab or Cab, is originally a street skateboarding trick, however the trick is now also done by snowboarders. It is another name for a Fakie 360 ollie, or in snowboarding, a switch nollie frontside 360. The Caballerial was named after professional skater Steve Caballero, who invented the trick in the early 1980s, originally doing the trick backside. The trick was originally performed on vert ramps or pools but has since been adapted to flatground, in snowboarding, the trick is usually done off small rollers, on flat ground, or down sets of stairs. Cab tricks are fakie backside in skateboarding. In snowboarding, cab tricks are Switch frontside rotations
The Half-cab is a variation of the Caballerial where instead of doing the full 360, you are only doing a 180, thus making it a Half-cab
Caballerial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3.) Powder refers to the type/quality of snow, which usually intails the fresh snowfall or untouched snow. This might be referred to as "backcountry" riding or "big" mountain riding. Those types of riding usually happen outside resort boundaries, however anyone can "Powder" ride on fresh snowfall days inside resort boundaries.
 
#68 · (Edited)
I actually know some Japanese, but I'm not versed in current culture.

1. Technical would more then likely be freestyle. Freestyle focuses on doing tricks with the snowboard off jumps, on the ground, and on rails/boxes.

2. Really not sure what Cob is, I'm trying to think of an English word Japanese would pronounce that way. Sounds to me like Carve, I don't think there is a "V" sound in Japanese so that would be the imitation. Carving would simply be riding the board down the hill and making big turns, most likely on groomed runs. A type of Freeriding.

3. Powder is, well, snowboarding on powder, (Fresh Snow). Also a type of Freeriding.
 
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