If snowboarding and freestyle skiing terms are making you hungry, here's what they really mean.
: In this move, the rear hand reaches between the legs and grabs the heel edge between the bindings while the front leg is boned — or straight out. The wrist rotates inward to complete the grab.: An off-axis rotation. If a riders inverts twice, the trick becomes a double cork. A third invert makes it a triple cork.: This describes the way a rider grabs their snowboard during a trick. There are many different types of grabs, including mute, indy, nose, tail and Japan.
Two flips are a double Michalchuk.: In this slopestyle rail trick, a skier spins onto the rail in one direction, then stops their momentum and spins off the rail in the opposite direction.: The rear hand reaches between the legs and grabs the heel edge between the bindings while the rear leg is boned, or straight.A triple cork is three flips with a varying number of diagonal rotations. If there’s a number after the trick, it relates to the degree of the trick.
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