![]() Grooming is the term used by someone operating machinery to flatten or compact the snow to make it ideal for board riding conditions. This means the snow is plentiful and ready to ride. If you are waist deep, you have enough thick snow to ride. This means a snow storm has created little visibility and it is time to head inside. White-out from a bottle will fix your board lingo errors but in boarding slang, a white-out is not good. When you are kicking, you are also “getting air” or getting some “serious air time.” White-Out Boarders kick in the air to perform a trick before landing back on the snow. If you enjoy backcountry boarding, you like to head off the beaten path and secluded places on the slopes to do your own thing. On the slopes, a bail means you fell on your board, wiped out or bit it. No one is bailing you out of anywhere in the board world. If you enjoy jibbing, you are referred to as a jibber. The art of jibbing is utilizing this freestyle method. To jib is to ride a board across another surface like a rail or a fallen log. CarvingĬarving involves cutting into the snow so well with the edges of your board that the board does not slide sideways. If you are traversing the slope on your board, you are boarding across the slope from one side to the other without heading straight down the slope. You might dump your significant other, but in board lingo, dumping refers to a heavy, thick snowfall that makes for excellent boarding conditions. Enjoy the Big Bear Lake boarding season this winter on the slopes. Call it cords for short and your board slang is greatly improving. In this instance, corduroy is referenced to describe fresh snow that has thin lines in it on the ground, just like the lines in corduroy pants. No, do not wear corduroy pants to the rail park for fear of being laughed at. If someone is looking to “shred some pow,” they are anxious to go boarding in the fresh fallen snow. Pow is the slang term for fresh powder, or fresh snow. If you do not know powder is snow, you have a lot to learn here. We do not recommend calling them lifties to their faces though or you may not get a ride to the top. Lifties are people whom operate ski lifts. So if you are going to “ride the rails,” you are heading to a rail park. ![]() Rail parks are snowboarding parks with rail options to ride. ![]() RadgnarĪ newer slang variation, radgnar is a contraction of gnarly and radical that will impress board friends and make old surfing dudes cringe. “Shredding the gnar” is a popular term you will hear on the slopes. Gnarly, or gnar, is an old-school slang term still used today for riding the terrain on your board. ![]() In snowboard slang, shred is a term used “to do snowboarding to your fullest potential on difficult or challenging terrain.” Gnarly, right? If you do not know what that means, see below. Big Bear Frontier guests receive exclusive discounted lift tickets, plus quality ski and snowboard rentals. Need a board? Our friends at Get Boards in Big Bear Lake can hook you up and have all the apparel and accessories you need for your boarding trip. But if you are learning the lingo, it’s a board and you are going boarding. We understand it is a snowboard and you are going snowboarding. ![]() Read up on our snowboard slang glossary to keep you cool this winter at Big Bear Lake. Read up on our snowboard slang glossary to keep you cool this winter. Whether you are a beginner or a pro at snowboarding, it’s never too late to become cool by learning the latest lingo and snowboard slang. We are knee-deep in snow this time of year at Big Bear Lake. ![]()
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