Here is a glossary of Snowboarding terms: AIR TO FAKIE - Any trick where the wall is approached riding forwards, no rotation is made, and the snowboarder lands riding backwards. ALLEY OOP - A term ...

Air-to-fakie: Any halfpipe trick in which the rider approaches the wall riding forwards, does not rotate, and lands riding backwards. Alley-oop: Any halfpipe move in which an athlete rotates 180 ...

Team USA won its first gold medal of the 2002 Winter Games in snowboarding, a relatively new sport to the Olympics. Kelly Clark, 18, won big Sunday in the women's snowboard halfpipe competition. On ...

Snowboarders cut a wide swath, not only through sick pow (great snow), but through English as we know it. So, as Olympic snowboarders get big air and ride fakie (backward) outside Salt Lake City this ...