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Deconstructing Freestyle Snowboarding: The basic moves and characteristics of Freestyle Snowboarding

Freestyle Snowboarding is an extremely popular style of snowboarding that is characterized by wild and spectacular trick riding.

The equipment used in Freestyle Snowboarding is slightly different than in regular snowboarding - the board is generally shorter, lighter, and softer and very responsive, and the boots are softer as well. Also, the board's camber is often flatter than usual, thus enabling the board to spin easily - a desirable attribute in Freestyle Snowboarding.

Freestyle Snowboarding requires training in many forms of both aerial and on-land twists, turns and grabs. Snowboarders practice these types of Freestyle Snowboarding in half-pipes and on the mountainside.

Here are several basic and not-so-basic moves used in Freestyle Snowboarding:

Ollies: One of the most basic aerial jumps in Freestyle Snowboarding, accomplished by jumping with the front foot first and using the spring of the board to get up in the air
Shifties: An aerial Freestyle Snowboarding trick that gives the appearance of twisting the body in a 180-degree turn by twisting the upper and lower body in opposite directions while in mid air and returning to normal position before landing
Fresh Fish: A type of Freestyle Snowboarding grab in which a snowboarder takes hold of the heel side edge of the snowboard between the bindings with the back hand, bones out the back leg, and keeps the front arm pointed straight up, all while in mid air
Alley Oop: A move used in half pipe Freestyle Snowboarding, characterized by spinning 180 degrees up a half pipe instead of the more usual downwards spinning

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