Snowboarding Tricks: Jibs

For snowboardint ricks, a jib involves anything you would do while your board slides over something that's not snow e.g. a rail. For beginners, start with jibs on rails or straight boxes you can ride onto before moving on to more difficult rails.

50-50

This involves sliding straight over the rail with your board parallel and centered over it. Bend your knees and stay balanced.

This is not a difficult maneuver to perform so you should be able to do this easily. Start with small rails and move your up to the bigger rails.

Boardslide

This involves sliding over the rail with your board perpendicular to it. Center your board over the rail and bend your knees while the rail goes straight between your bindings.

You can start by going 50-50 on the rail followed by turning your shoulders so that it becomes a boardslide. When this gets boring you can then try to perform a 90 degree ollie onto the rails.

There are two types of boardslides. A backside boardslide is when your face is facing down the rail and you can see where you're going while a frontside boardside is where your back is facing down the rail which obviously makes it a little more difficult.

Frontside 180 to 50-50

Before trying this, you'll need to be proficient in riding fakie, doing frontside 180 spins and regular 50-50s.

To start with, make sure that you have done the rail before otherwise scope it out by examining the jump, rail and landing. Approach the jump leading to the rail with a moderate speed. Too slow and you're likely to fall off as it's easier to keep your balance at a faster speed.

Ollie off the jump and spin your legs frontside. It's important to ollie first as you'll probably miss the rail without doing so. On the rail, ride straight through the rail while maintaining your balance.

As you approach the end of the rail, prepare to land. It may take some practice to perfect landing fakie. Or you could just do another 180 off the rail to land regular.

270 to Frontside Boardslide

Ride to the jump with moderate speed. As you approach the jump, move onto your toe edge. While on the jump, go over to your heel edge and at the lip, pop your heels.

Practice your 270s until you can get them just ride so that you will be frontsiding the rails. While on the rails, look over your shoulder to see where the end of the rail is.

At the end of the rail, turn 90 degrees to land either fakie or regular or you could just do another 270.

Keep Practicing

As with other snowboard tricks, practice these maneuvers until they become second nature to you. Make sure you can visualize yourself doing these tricks and learn by watching how others are doing them.