Things that Aren’t Awesome
A lot of effort goes into naming tricks in snowboarding, I’m sure we can all name 20 or so with minimal effort. A lot less effort goes into naming falls. Aside from the standard face-plant and scorpion, it’s pretty much virgin territory. There’s also the yard-sale, but that’s for skiers. I know I’m immature, but yelling yardsale when a skier loses all their gear under the lift has made me laugh from the age of 10 to 27.
Not saying I’m the best at naming stuff, but if no one else is jumping in, this one’s going to be named the butt-tear. Not be confused with buttering, butt-tearing occurs when you hit a jump, fall on your ass and your back cheek lands higher on the jump resulting in a tearing feeling. (see illustration below).
There’s a moment when you get up and sort of try to suck yourself back together, but that doesn’t help, you might even let your friends ride a little ahead and check for blood, but you’re fine, usually.
Who knows, chances are I’ll fall again really soon, so maybe I’ll have some new falls to name, feel free to comment or email in if you have any suggestions.
December 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
wanna do a board graphic?
January 8th, 2009 at 12:52 am
I thought that’s when you got a butt Lickin. I like getting them every once and a while so that when I straight air and land a jump I can say “YEA, I didn’t get a butt Lickin!” It’s really something to strive against, and it’s motivating…thats a fur fuckin sure.