The sport, which first appeared at the
1998 Nagano Games
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Snowboard Length Calculator - 1 views
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Winter Olympics: Snowboarding - Infoplease.com - 0 views
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There are six snowboarding events: men's and women's halfpipe, men's and women's parallel giant slalom, and men's and women's snowboard cross. The new snowboard cross event has a course made up of different sections: whoops (moguls), waves, banks, kickers, and spines (jumps with 90° angles), with a series of blue and red gates and triangular flags marking the course and indicating entrances to obstacles.
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mplitude score each maneuver is given an additional point for every 30 centimeters that the competitor reaches above the lip of the pipe
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0.1–0.4 for an unstable body, flat landing, or missed airs 0.5–0.9 for using hand for stability 1.0–1.5 for minor falls or body contact with the snow 1.6–1.9 for complete falls 2.0 for a complete stop
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parallel giant slalom, the riders take qualifying runs, and the top 16 men and top 16 women are ranked according to their times
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winners of each match move on to the next round until the semifinals. The two semifinals winners race for the gold
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Shaun White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986) is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder.
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born with a Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect for which he endured two open-heart operations before the age of one
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February 2009, Red Bull built White a halfpipe completely out of natural snow in the back country of Colorado on the backside of Silverton Mountain
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participated in the Winter X Games, where he has won a medal every year since 2002. Including all winter X Games competitions through 2009, his medal count stands at 14 (9 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
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White's streak was snapped in 2007 when he lost to Andreas Wiig and Jussi Oksanen, with White taking the bronze
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t the 2007 Open, White was also crowned the first "Burton Global Open Champion". His take for the event was $100,000 (Global Open Champ), $20,000 (1st Place Halfpipe), $90,000 (3rd Place Slopestyle), and a new Corvette
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2009 There was a lot of controversy over who won the 2009 SuperPipe at Winter X Games XIII. Kevin Pearce had 5 hits in the pipe and all were the same tricks White did in his final run. White, on the other hand, had 6 hits and he started off his run with a big backside rodeo 540 where Pearce started his run off with a big grab. Although Pearce went bigger he only had 5 hits and his first hit wasn't as technical as White's first hit. Judges came to the conclusion that White deserved the better score because he started off with a more technical trick and he had 1 more hit than Pearce. With the win, White became the second competitor, after Tanner Hall, to win a gold medal in the superpipe in consecutive years at the Winter X Games. He also won a gold medal in Slopestyle, finally winning gold after 2 straight years of bronze.
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February 14, 2009, White won the FIS World Cup Men's Halfpipe event at Vancouver's Cypress Mountain.
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White recorded a score of 46.8 on his first run, which proved a high enough score to secure the gold medal without a second run
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as a victory lap, ending his run with a well-anticipated Double McTwist 1260.[7] This second run resulted in a record score of 48.4 (50 is the highest possible score) enlarging his margin of victory.
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endorsement deals include Burton Snowboards, Oakley, Inc., Birdhouse Skateboards, Park City Mountain Resort, Target Corporation, Red Bull, Adio and Hewlett-Packard.
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has his own character on the game Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder as well as the video game Shaun White Snowboarding.
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Snowboarding At The Olympics - 0 views
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1960, a teenage boy named Tom Sims was a skateboard champion, but during icy winters he was unable to ride a skateboard. To solve this problem, he thought about an ice glider. At first he came out with a snurfer. You would stand on it as if it were a skateboard. But the front and back ends weren't raised on an angle like a skateboard. It was almost completely flat, except for the front that curved up and had a rope attached to it. Riders would hold the rope to steer. The main change, however, was that there were no wheels
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front end was lowered and there was no rope. Instead, one had to balance the board on the ground and in the air like the skateboard
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Jake Burton Carpenter who thought of the rubber foot holsters. That requires a snowboarder to wear boots and slip them into the holster. It was like wearing a shoe and locking your foot into a wheelless inline skate
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Shaun White Biography - About Shaun White, Bio Breakdown - 0 views
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many of the highest accolades within snowboarding and skateboarding, and at 23, he's only getting started
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medals in both snowboarding and skateboarding, as well as a gold medal from the 2006 Winter Olympics
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Born in San Diego, California in 1986, Shaun Roger White endured two major surgeries to correct a heart defect before he was a year old.
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age of four, Shaun proved to be fearless on his skis as he raced down the slopes with older brother Jesse. At six, in an attempt to slow him down, Cathy decided to put him on a snowboard and instructed him to copy everything Jesse did. Shaun did just that, unfortunately for her, it only encouraged Shaun to go faster.
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seven, Shaun entered his first amateur snowboard contest and won, earning him a wildcard entry into Nationals, where he placed just outside of the top 10
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Cathy sent Burton a homemade video of Shaun just as the company was coincidentally developing a kid-sized snowboard line. Not surprisingly, they were impressed, and offered the seven-year-old a sponsorship deal. With the support of Burton, he turned pro at 13
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his first major win as a pro in 2001 at the Arctic Challenge. He earned his first Winter X Games medal when he was 16
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2003 he became the first athlete ever to compete and medal in both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.
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2006 qualifiers for Torino, however, he took no prisoners. Shaun went undefeated with 12 victories that season, becoming the first athlete ever to sweep the five-event
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23, Shaun shows no sign of letting up on the competition, taking on the world in contests leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver, Canada
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help of Red Bull, a halfpipe was created with snowboarding's first-ever on-mountain foam pit. The Red Bull foam pit allowed Shaun to attempt tricks he never thought would be possible. The one-month training session, dubbed "Red Bull Project X"
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Shaun has a knack for business. By partnering with companies that he thinks are cool, Shaun has been able to reach out beyond his sport and embraced the position of brand ambassador for companies like Burton, Target, and Ubisoft
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Snowboarding Dictionary - Snowboarding Terms and Definitions - 0 views
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used to explain the emphasis of style in a trick. if someone "boned out a indy" they would grab hard and create an emphasis of the maneuver such that his/her legs may appear extended or stretched to a maximum degree. or the style of the indy was more.
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A snowboarder with every piece of snowboard gear imaginable. He has been known to use it all at the same time whether or not the circumstances call for it
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The condition bestowed upon an onlooker or crowd as a snowboarder pulls off a totally insane maneuver
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Aerial maneuver in which the rider makes a 180 degree rotatation off the jump leading with the heelside (clockwise for a regular stance-counterclockwise for goofy)
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Coming off a jump and turning your back down the hill, flipping 540, and landing fakie or rotating a total of 720 and landing regular.
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BEEF (submitted by: shorti7548) A wipe-out; another word for biff. Ex: "Dude, I beefed that one so badly!"
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BIFF (submitted by: snowy_chick6) Someone who wipes out real bad. For example, "Did you see his huge biff?"
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BOMB (submitted by: imp_666) To point the nose of your board straight down the hill to accelerate. E.G. “He bombed the jump at 60 miles!”
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BUTTERY (submitted by: 58mtv77) description of a snowboard with good flex that lends itself well to the butter maneuver
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DECK (submitted by: podcaspro) The top of both sides of the halfpipe where riders can drop-in or destroy themselves if they fail to carry momentum properly. ie. dude I just hit the deck and bailed backwards to the bottom of the pipe or dude just lean forward and lift your knees to get on the deck of the halfpipe.
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LINE (submitted by: SnOwAdict) The path you take, usually backcountry, or off the reg slope lay-out. e.g. "How was that line?"
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LIP (submitted by: imp_666) The top of the jump; the part that is usually quite steep. E.G. "That's an insane lip."
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NOSE MANUAL (submitted by: imp_666) To ride with the tail of your board elevated from the ground; nose wheelie. E.G. “Can you pull a nose manual?”
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OLLIE (submitted by: imp_666) The act of lifting the nose and tail of your board into the air at the same time. “That ollie was HUGE!”
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POP (submitted by: coldsnowride) getting the push off the lip of a pipe or jump ex. "i didnt get the pop i needed to pull that trick"
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SESSION A name for a certain interval in which one snowboards. e.g. "That was a good halfpipe session, but the powder session was even better."
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SKETCHY (submitted by: moshman) shaky, landing a small air or trick but meesing up the landing but not falling
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SLOPE(S) (submitted by: shoilz) another word for mountain. ex. yo dude are we headen to the slopes tomorrow?
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TABLETOP (submitted by: imp_666) A kind of jump consisting of a smaller jump, then a large tranny and then the landing. E.G. “You can get insane air of the tabletop.”
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SWITCH (submitted by: imp_666) To ride with the tail of your board in front; fakie. E.G. “He’s good at riding switch.”
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TRANNY (submitted by: Parkay) sloped part of a landing so you don't land in the flats. Its not a "Little ditch or empty space to gap." You want to land in the tranny, not jump over it. Gosh
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TWEAKED A term used to explain the emphasis of style in a trick. In other words, if someone "tweaked out a method" they would grab hard and create an emphasis of the maneuver such that their ankles or other joints may appear bent injury. i.e. "He tweaked his ankle." or twisted to a maximum degree.
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WARBLE (submitted by: noneed4name) a large chunk of snow on which one ollies, spins on top of, and rides off.