Tricks that
were born on
the streets,
ramps and
bowls of the
FROST BITES
world have have been taken from skate-
boarding and bastardized into the
snowboarding vocabulary. Some have
risen
to stellar heights and others have
slumped to hideous lows. Snow pro
extraordinaire Jeff Brushie explains.
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Whether it's streetstyle on the slopes or going fast
and going huge, snowboarding is definitely a rush.
A few of my favorite things are s
are halfpipes, wind lips
and flying high and having a nice steep landing
and getting to drift for a long time. Nowadays, not loo
many people are trying to go big. All these little
snowboard kids are coming up and trying to do the
real spinny tricks two feet off the ground, but I just
want to go huge because the more time I'm in the
air, the
more fun I have.
In many ways, the professional snowboarding
scene is getting to be like skateboarding. It's funny
to see. Sometimes I'll sit there and watch people
watching other people. It just seems like they want
to pull a report card out for each person.
But aside from the negative aspects of snowboard-
ing, the biggest rush is probably huge hits of doop
powder. That's the ultimate when you go on a trip
Kickflips have yet to be seen on the slopes, but the influence of
skating on snowboarding is colossal. Japanese camper Tomoaki
Ishikawa (left) leans into a lien above High Cascade's pipe in
Mount Hood, Oregon. Before a Vail, Colorado, panorama,
Steve Alters (right) delicately branches out on his winter abilities.