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Let’s face it, learning to snowboard can be quite difficult, but once you get past the initial learning curve you really want to step up your game by learning a few snowboard tricks.
There is nothing more rewarding than pulling off a jump in front of your friends and them begging you to teach them how you did it.
So why not learn the most basic tricks that will get them frothing for more
Snowboard tricks You just have to learn
With this list, you can build up a decent about of snowboarding tricks, which you can whip out at every turn.
Best of all you can perform them with minimal amounts of practice and master them and incorporate them with other jumps and tricks as well.
So without further ado, let’s get straight into some sweet and juicy tricks so you can hit up the slopes and show of your skills.
Ollie
One of the first tricks you should learn, I have no doubt that you’ve all heard of this one.
The ollie requires you to get a little bit of air by jumping off the tail of the board. Not too tricky, but an essential one for your assortment of tricks.
Nollie
This one is not unlike the ollie and is a good example of when snowboard trick names get pretty straightforward.
Like the ollie, this requires you to get a little air, but instead of jumping off the tail of the board, you jump off the nose.
You might say it’s a nose ollie. A no-llie.
The beauty of the above two is that you don’t need any extra equipment to do them. Just grab your board, find some snow, a little bit of space, and you’re set.
Shifty
This is a fun one which can really help to develop your board control.
In a shifty, the rider jumps into the air and rotates the board about 90 degrees, so that it’s facing perpendicular to the direction he or she is moving.
Prior to landing, twist the board back round to its initial position, land soft, and keep riding!
Easy, fun, looks good – what more could you want?
The above three are pretty straightforward airs.
Let’s get a bit more technical, and touch on some grabs.
Nose Grab
Unsurprisingly, this trick involves grabbing the nose of your board.
As you jump in the air, straighten your back leg and lift up your front leg.
This will bring the nose of your board towards you, and allow you to easily reach down with your front hand and grab your nose.
Mute Grab
The mute grab requires you to grab the toe edge of the board in between the bindings.
Simply jump, and unlike in the nose grab, bring both of your legs upwards so that your board remains parallel to the ground.
Then, grab the toe edge of the board with your front hand, and you’ve completed a mute grab.
Melon grab
In terms of explanation, this is pretty similar to the mute grab, but if you can do them both you’ll know they require pretty different skills.
The melon grab also involves grabbing the board in between the bindings with your front hand, though this time it’s the heel side of your board which you’ll want to be grabbing.
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Tripod
When riding down the hill place both hands on the ground while digging the nose of the board into the snow and bringing the board of the snow into the air.
By doing so you will look like a Tripod and slide down on 3 points
Cossack
This trick involves you putting both your arms between your legs while sliding down the slope.
Obviously, it will look way better if you get some air while performing this snowboarding trick and afterwards landing it perfectly.
Backflip and front flip
Easy to explain, hard to do.
A backflip occurs when a rider, obviously, flips backwards off a jump
A front flip is the same thing with the opposite rotation.
Layback
This one is probably one of the simplest as it requires you to get some momentum while going down the hill.
At some point, maybe when trying to get under an object, lean back till you are laying against the ground.
You will slide down the slope with your back on the ground. The difficult part now is to stand up.
The easiest way is to use your arms and while still sliding push yourself up.
One-Two
A trick in which the rider’s front hand grabs the heel edge behind their back foot.
McTwist
This is getting seriously advanced now.
The McTwist involves a rider riding backside in a halfpipe or similar.
In the air, the rider flips forward, generally 540 degrees.
The best of the best can go more than 540 degrees though, and this is where it becomes useful to understand a little more about snowboard trick names
A B
A trick in which the rider’s rear hand grabs the heel side of the board front for the front bindings.
Japan air
The front hand grabs the toe edge side of the board in between the feet and the front knee is pulled to the board.
Mindy, Super
Both hands grab toe side of the board outside of the bindings.
Nuclear
The rear hand reaches across the front of the body and grabs the heel edge side of the board in front of the front foot
Perfect
The front hand grabs the tail of the board. For more amazing tricks check out Wikipedias list of snowboarding tricks
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