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BY  Sibashree Jun 12, 2026

Freestyle is the main foundation of snowboarding. However, every rider has to learn the basic snowboarding tricks, from grinds to spins and grabs to butters.   Furthermore, you need a roadmap for becoming a park-ready snowboarder.  Also, you have to maintain your style equally before and after the drop. So, along with knowing the tricks, you need to choose snowboard jackets and snowboard pants that ensure superior performance with freestyle readiness.  What Are The Coolest Snowboarding Tricks?  You can divide the snowboarding tricks into four categories, and these are: Flips Spins Grabs Butters Flips mean rotating around the horizontal axis. On the other hand, spins are ideal for showcasing rotational tricks centering around the vertical axis.  Furthermore, in the grabs technique, you can grab the board in more than one position.  Moreover, butters means placing the board on the ground and using presses and spins for rails and jumps.  However, Ollie is the basic or main trick behind snowboarding.  The Ollie: The Basic Snowboarding Tricks From corked 10s to butters, you will find the simple Ollie trick. However, this is a trick that can only be perfected with practice.  Furthermore, this trick involves four stages: You have to energize the board. Then, you have to center the balance backward.  Next, you have to drive off the back.  Finally, you have to tuck the nose to square up. Now, here are the four tricks a snowboarder needs to master. However, before getting into the details of the tricks, I want to define what a switch is. What Does Switch Mean?  As a rider, you will have a natural leading foot.  Left Foot Forward is Regular. Right Foot Forward is Goofy. Also, riding “switch” means riding with your non-dominant foot forward, essentially riding your board backward from how you normally would. Many advanced tricks either require a switch landing or start from a switch stance, which is why you'll see it mentioned constantly in trick names and descriptions.  A switch is not an optional detail. It changes the difficulty of the trick fundamentally. 1. Butter Tricks  If you have to learn about the basic tricks of Nollies and Ollies, rotation, and board awareness, butter tricks are the best.  Tail Press You can initiate the tail press with the shift of your weight toward the board’s tail. You have to ride straight and lift the nose out of the snow.  Ollie And Nollie  Ollie is the foundation, and Nollie is the same in the opposite direction. In Ollie, you shift the pressure backward, and Nollie is the trick where you need to shift the pressure forward.  Then, you will have to press down on the nose for spring.  Nose Press  Nose Press is the inverse of Tail Press. Here, your weight has to be over the nose of the board. Thus, the tail remains free of the snow.  Tail Drag  You have to start a nose roll or a tail drag. Furthermore, once you get the first pop, you have to keep the board straight.  Here, you will not spin to get back to your natural spin. This is also called the “Nose-Roll to Pretzel.” Nose-Roll 180 Begin a toe or heelside turn. Once your edge engages, lift the tail while keeping the nose down, then spin 180 into a switch. Tripod When you are riding straight, you have to look behind. Then, you can start a heavy tail press.  Next, you need to go down and touch the snow with your hands. Thus, you will use your arms and tail to form the tripod.  Tail-Drag 180 You have to start a heelside or toe turn and do ollying. Thus, you can keep the tail on the snow.  Then, you can drag the board and land the switch.  Nose-Roll 360  The start for Nose-Roll 360 is very similar to the Nose-Roll 180. However, here the rotational force is greater, and the pop is harder.  In this trick, when your board is at an angle of 90 degrees to the direction you are riding.  Then, you can lift your nose from the snow and go for an airborne spin until it becomes a complete 360 degree.  Tail-Drag 360 Here, the start is the same as the Tail-Drag 180, and here, you need to drag the tail to perpendicular and pop harder.  Then, you will lift the board from the snow to finish a complete rotation of 360 degrees.  2. Grabs Tricks  Grabbing the snowboard in the middle of a flight is the space where freestyle was created. This is a stylish trick for snowboarding.  Indy Reach down with your back hand and grip the toe edge between your feet. Stalefish  In this grab trick, your back hand reaches past your back knee to grab the heel edge between the bindings. Tail  Here, you can use your trailing hand and grab the tail of the board right at the tip. This grab will not be on the sides.  Melon  Grab the heel edge between your feet using your front hand, reaching outside your lead knee. Weddle  Earlier, the Weddle trick was known as Mute Grab. It got its name from Chris Weddle, who invented the trick and tried for the first time in 1981.  The change of name happened in 2021, and as The Guardian reported,  “For almost 40 years, the “mute grab” has been part of a skateboarder’s bag of tricks: the lead hand grabs the toe side of the board between their feet. Now, the trick is being renamed to better honour its inventor, Chris Weddle, a deaf skater who was never actually mute in the first place.” In this trick, you will have to use your lead hand and grab your toe edge between the bindings.  Method If you want to master a more stylish move than Melon, you can try the Method trick. In this move, you have to stretch your legs from the Melon Grab stance, and thus the shape of your body will be like a scorpion tail.  Then, you will have to use your trailing hand before you aim high. The beauty of the method is that in this, everyone can try a different version.  In snowboarding, Method Grab has one of the most fascinating stories of origin.  The most amazing part is that it was not discovered on a mountain.   Rider Neil Blender started on a skateboard vert ramp in 1985. He was then taking part a highest-air contest.  The rules were to measure the air height from the lowest point of the body of the rider on board.  So, to squeeze out extra height, Blender arched his back and pulled the board up. He called it his best “method” for winning.  Thus, the method trick got its name and became very popular by the late 1980s. Even today, it is one of the most recognizable moves of snowboarding. Nose  In this trick, you will have to use your leading hand to grab the nose of your board. Roast Beef  Skateboarder Jeff Grosso invented this trick, and he called it the worst maneuver in skateboarding.  He admitted that he only started grabbing there because it was easier for him than a stalefish. However, today, it is one of the easiest “through-the-legs” grabs to learn.  In this trick, your rear hand reaches between your legs and grabs the heel edge of the board between the bindings, with your rear leg boned (straightened) for style. Chicken Salad  Because of the same through-the-legs motion, Roast Beef is often seen as the same as the Chicken Salad trick.  However, this trick is different because here you will grab the heel edge with your rear hand while your front leg is boned and your wrist rotates inward. So, you will reach between the legs with the rear hand to grab the heel edge while keeping the front leg extended. Many snowboarders also casually call the variations of the Chicken Salad Chicken Wing on the mountain.  However, in standard competitions, Chicken Salad remains the standard name. 3. Spins, Flips, And Corks  The tricks based on rotations are called spins, and as you try spins on the horizontal axis, you will land in a switch or natural position.  Spins happen in 180-degree increments. Furthermore, the following variations will offer you a switch landing. 180 540 800 1260 1620 On the other hand, the following spins will ensure a natural landing.  360 720 1080 1440 1800 Moreover, corks and flips are rotations on the vertical axis. However, they are very different from spins, and each of the variations has a distinct name.  Here are the tricks you are going to try.  Wildcat   Wildcat is a backflip trick. Here, you will have to keep the board in a parallel position to the riding line.  Thus, you will do a side slip but will not use the momentum. Tamedog Tamedog is the exact opposite of Wildcat. It is a frontflip trick, and here also the board remains parallel to the riding line.  However, you will also use the hard Nollie trick so that the nose becomes your springboard and you start rotating.  Backflip  In the backflip trick, the board will create a 90-degree angle to the snow. In this, you will flip the board backwards directly.  Thus, the board will have a straight landing.  Frontflip  Frotflip has many similarities with Tamedog. Here, you will have to do a Nollie and a nose-press to initiate the lip.  Then, you will use both hands and reach forward to start the somersault. You will also shift the board back into the landing place.  Rodeo It is a frontflip but with a difference. Launch a frontside turn off the lip, pop from your toe edge, and pull a frontflip 180 to a switch landing. It has become such a building block that riders now stack difficulty onto it. A “Backside Rodeo 540” is a genuine flex in the competition.  Backside Rodeo It is just the reverse of Rodeo. Start a backside turn at the lip, pop off your heel edge, and execute a backflip with a 180 to land switch.  Moreover, if you want to showcase the maximum style, you must try a Backside Rodeo 540.  Corked Spin  A corked spin is a simple addition of a backflip or a frontflip to a flat spin. It is a popular trick in competitive settings.  In these tricks, professionals “Cab Triple Cork 14s” or “Double Corked 10s.”  However, like the Rodeos, you can make any spin corked.  Rails And Boxes: Some Tricks For The Street Riders On A Mountain Encounter If you don’t want to try flatland and air tricks, or if you are a street rider, you surely love your rails and boxes.  Here are the common grinds you can try while snowboarding on the mountain.  Trick NameApproach DirectionBoard PositionTakeoff/Pop StyleLeading Edge/Feature Placement 50-50Straight OnParallel (Straight)Standard Pop Flat Base on the Rail or BoxFrontside BoardslideRail on the Front SidePerpendicular (Sideways)Nose Rising Over the RailHeel Edge Leads with Backward SlidingFrontside LipslideRail on the Front SidePerpendicular (Sideways)Tail Rising Over the RailCentred between the BindingsBackside BoardslideRail on the Back SidePerpendicular (Sideways)Nose Rising Over the RailCentred between the BindingsBackside LipslideRail on the Back SidePerpendicular (Sideways)Tail Rising Over the RailHeel Edge LeadsTailpressStraight OnParallel (Straight)Shift Weight BackwardFlat Base with Tail Pressed DownNosepressStraight OnParallel (Straight)Shift Weight BackwardFlat Base with Nose Pressed DownBluntslideWill Vary Based on the EntryPerpendicular (Sideways)Ollie or High PopRail Sits Directly Under One Binding Know The Glossary Of The Coolest Snowboarding Trick Names If you want to know what are some of the coolest snowboarding trick names and the lore behind them, you can begin with the glossary I shared.  However, you can also master these tricks.  1. Switch McTwist Switch McTwist was originally a skateboard trick. Skater Mike McGill first landed the move.  It was a combination of a front flip and a 540-degree rotation on a halfpipe in 1984. His teammate, Rodney Mullen, named the trick in his honor.  He took “Mc” from MacGill’s name and combined it with “twist.”  This trick came into snowboarding when Shaun White performed in the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, defending his title.  In a Switch McTwist, the same flipping 540 is required, and you need to perform it from a switch or a backward-leading stance.  So, it is a much harder variation, combining an already-difficult invert with reversed footing. 2. Double Crippler  You can perform a double crippler on the frontside wall of a halfpipe and not on the backside wall, which is a more common option.  So, it is disorienting, and you can't spot your landing the same way. Add a second flip, and you get the Double Crippler, a very difficult trick.  Maddie Mastro became the first woman to land it, at 18 years old, during her 2019 Burton U.S. Open win. No matter which trick you try, learn and practice it properly from professional trainers and wear the helmet to stay safe during the real adventure. Learning The Basics And Building On It The snowboarding tricks and the lore behind them can feel overwhelming at first.  However, if you want, you can build your vocabulary logically. Start with the Ollie and butter tricks to build board awareness.  Then, move into basic grabs like Indy and Melon once you're comfortable in the air, and only chase spins, corks, and flips once those fundamentals are second nature. Furthermore, most of today’s iconic tricks, the Method, the McTwist, and the Roast Beef started as one rider's happy accident or stubborn experiment. So, learn the basics properly, and eventually you might invent something worth naming yourself. 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BY  Sibashree Sep 30, 2024

When we hear the term “desert,” we usually imagine a place with sparse traces of life. However, Big Bend National Park is an exception, creating a home for elk, black bears, squirrels, rattlesnakes, and woodpeckers.  Big Bend National Park also has oases created by single strands of cottonwood trees. Further, ephemeral springs, rocky canyons, highland shrubs, junipers, and grasses have contributed to the biodiversity of the park. So, did you see something moving in the bush? Let’s find out what it can be! A Vivid Wildlife Thrives At Big Bend National Park  Along with a never-ending variety of mammals and reptiles, the Big Bend National Park has the most butterflies, birds, scorpions, ants, and bats.  Also, various species of animals here play an important role in the ecosystem of the park. Further, a rich and sustainable food chain here keeps the diversity intact.  Mammals At Big Bend National Park Home to 75 species of mammals, Big Bend National Park shows an extraordinary variety of mammals you can see. Further, it is hard to believe how the tiniest Western pipistrelle bat and the largest black bear can coexist in a space.  Nevertheless, along with bobcats, black bears, and javelinas, you will also get to see mountain lions, coyotes, gray foxes, bighorn sheep, aoudad, nutria, and elk. Further, among the petite ones, the most common species here are lagomorphs, badgers, squirrels, and ringtails. Birds At Big Bend National Park If you are a birder and want to make the most of your bird-watching experience here, you must be at the right spot at the right time. So, the table below shows the bird-watching locations in the park and which bird species you will encounter there. Rio Grande Village Nature TrailGreen KingfisherNorthern cardinalGreen heronGolden-fronted WoodpeckerCommon black hawkChisos MountainsBlack-crested titmouseMexican JayNorthern flickerAcorn woodpeckerCottonwood CampgroundVermillion flycatcherGreat-horned owlBlack vultureLadder-backed WoodpeckerDugout WellsSummer TanagerAsh-throated flycatcherWhite-winged doveInca doveGreat roadrunnerSam Nail RanchScaled quailPainted buntingPyrrhuloxiaYellow-breasted chatGreen-tailed towheeBlue CreekBlack-throated sparrowLucifer hummingbirdMourning doveBlue grosbeakCactus wren Also, spring is the best time to visit Big Bend National Park if you want to encounter the most colorful birds. Further, in this season, some of the rarest migratory birds flock to this desert park. So, late February to May is the best time for bird watching in Big Bend National Park.  Amphibians At Big Bend National Park You will find a wide variety of amphibians along the Rio Grande floodplain and in many other parts of the park. However, the amphibians here mostly are different species of toads and frogs.  So, here is a list of toads and frogs in this national park. Great Plains narrow-mouthed toad Couch's spadefoot toad Red-spotted toad Green toad Spotted chirping frog Rio Grande leopard frog Canyon treefrog Texas toad These toads are frogs found near the lakes and springs in the park. Moreover, if you are camping in the park or exploring the backcountry camping at Big Bend in summer, you will hear these amphibians’s loudest cries at night.  Reptiles At Big Bend National Park https://www.instagram.com/p/C9fH6jROWXa/?img_index=1 The Chihuahuan Greater Earless Lizard in Big Bend National Park is one of the most colorful reptiles you will come across. Further, the males display a riot of colors, with a touch of orange, green, yellow, and brown all over their bodies.  However, this desert park harbors many other species of lizards and snakes. Check out the table below to learn about these species.  Lizards in Big Bend National ParkTexas Horned LizardRound-tailed Horned LizardEastern Collared LizardGreat Plains SkinkShort-lined SkinkGreen AnoleSouthwestern Fence LizardCrevice Spiny LizardSnakes in Big Bend National ParkTrans-Pecos CopperheadWestern CoachwhipWestern Diamondback RattlesnakeMojave RattlesnakeBlack-tailed RattlesnakeMottled Rock RattlesnakeBaird's Rat SnakeTrans-Pecos Rat SnakeRegal Ring-necked SnakeSonoran Gopher Snake, etc. Turtles in Big Bend National ParkYellow mud turtleBig bend sliderDesert box turtleTexas spiny softshell The warm climate and extreme heat in the summer season have made Big Bend National Park ideal for the habitation and breeding of various reptiles.  Fish At Big Bend National Park Finding schools of fish in a desert park like the Big Bend National Park is a little astonishing. However, the park is blessed with the Rio Grande and its tributaries. So, you can see fish in the Terlingua creeks and Tornillo.  Unfortunately, nine species of fish in the park are now extinct. Still, it has varieties, such as Big Bend Gambusia, catfish, largemouth bass, longnose dace, bluegill, green sunfish, and blue tilapia.  Do you know that the last American Eel was taken from Rio Grande in 1954? Further, Big Bend Gambusia is an endangered species, and it is now only found in a protected pond close to the Rio Grande Village.  Also, the invasive species of blue tilapia has now become a pest. So, many organizations are now against the further spread of this species.  Insects At Big Bend National Park  The two-tailed swallowtail caterpillar is the most adorable insect in the Big Bend National Park. Other insects found in the national park are black beetles, whirligig beetles, and yucca moths.  Yucca moths play a crucial role in the ecology of the Big Bend National Park. It is responsible for pollinating the creamy-white yucca flowers that bloom at night.  Further, in the Chisos Mountains, you will find beebrush plants where bumblebees, honey bees, and other species of bees roam around. Moreover, in the summer, you will find ladybugs on the peaks.  Other insects found at Big Bend National Park are: Tarantula hawks Millipedes (mostly seen after a rainfall) Diplopoda or two-footed insects Diplopoda is very vital for nutrient recycling in the Big Bend National Park. It creates burrows in the ground of around 1 or 1 and a half feet. Further, they feed on plant remains to return essential nutrients to nature.  A varied geology, including a river corridor, mountains, acres of Chihuahuan desert, and oases, has made Big Bend National Park rich in wildlife. This desert park has around 75 species of mammals and 450 species of birds. It is also home to more than 50 species of reptiles and many amphibians.  So, for a wildlife lover, this desert park in Texas is a sheer delight! Also Read Top 10 Most Popular Paraguay Food That You Must Try. Top 13 Famous Wonders Of India That You Must Visit! [Updated 2024]

BY  Sibashree Nov 11, 2025

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