friends and our day of hittin' the slopes. After I asked him to explain the snowboarding language to me, he just laughed and convinced me to take the tram up to the top of mountain with him, even though I was far too inexperienced to be riding the top. "Don't worry about it girly, just chill and scope our mad steez." Trusting my better judgment, I decided I had better find out what he meant by that before agreeing. He quickly explained to me that if I was to go "scope his mad steez," that would mean that I'd be watching his friends and him doing a lot technical tricks and jumps, like sticking a sick rodeo seven (720 Air Rotation) or if they do that same trick riding backwards, than they would be riding switch and busting a hakkon flip. If they decide to rotate frontward while they are in the air, then they would be doing the trick frontside, and if they really want to drop a hammer, they'll do they trick inverted, so that they are upside down, or maybe goofy footed, so their riding the snowboard with their right foot forward. As I glanced over my notepad and saw the different words for tricks, I realized just how difficult it would be for my inexperienced eyes to tell the difference between all of them. From what I knew so far, just one trick alone could be called a "switch, frontside, goofy, inverted hakkon flip." Adam informed me otherwise by telling me that even though they have all of those different words for different tricks, when they're put together, they usually come up with one name that includes everything that is incorporated into the whole trick. So instead of saying "switch, frontside, goofy, inverted hakkon flip," he could just name that entire trick a "Jennifer" if he wanted. Adam claims that snowboarding lingo serves an extremely important purpose. To him, the jargon used in snowboarding isn't just useless slang, but it is absolutely necessary in order to convey all of the different technical terms for trick...
