1/27/2024 0 Comments Crazy snowboard trick names![]() People have always called my brothers and I by our last name. From naming rider part songs from way back, to remembering trick names and board graphics, Eddie is one of those riders that breathes snowboarding. From impressive feats of control and style, to moments of improvisation and sheer recklessness, ‘crazy’ is a term that we use in disbelief as well as admiration. “So I’m flippin through the channels on TV and I stumble upon a snowboarding event called the Burton US open “men’s slope style” in Vail, Colorado and it just makes me giggle to hear tricks like “halfcab on backside 360 out on the rail” and a “cab 1260 melon” on this snowboarders run□ it’s crazy how much skateboarding has influenced the sport of snowboarding and how the same tricks have found their way into the slopes and in the snow □ I never would have thought that something I invented in a pool back in 1980 (a fakie 360 Ollie) would find its way into another extreme sport that is of modern snowboarding today. What angles do you have your feet at on your snowboard. Tricks without the slightest elements of realism, just faster, just higher, and two completely new routes - SSX Tricky is a worthy successor to the Playstation 2 hit. ![]() Did he really just find out in March that snowboarders have been using ‘cab’ in naming snowboard tricks since probably the mid-80’s? If so that’s the best thing we’ve heard all day. The same twisted climate of crazy snowboarding. Besides inventing the ‘cab’ and having probably the highest selling skate shoe pro model of all-time in the Vans halfcab, it’s genuine stoked as shown in this old Insta post that make him a real likable dude.
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