(Reuters) -Norwegian snowboarder Oyvind Kirkhus made history over the last week at Switzerland's Swatch Nines by landing the world's first switch backside quad 1620, a gravity-defying manoeuvre that ...

Just three years ago, then 8-year-old Ben Lucas had never seen snow. Last month, he landed his first double wildcat on his ...

He placed fourth at the 2014 and 2022 Winter Olympics and has three gold medals from 2006, 2010 and 2018. The numbers in snowboard tricks correlate to the degrees rotated. A 1080 refers to a trick ...

Haakon flip: An inverted aerial where the rider approaches the ... Considered one of the most stylish tricks in snowboarding. Michalchuk: In halfpipe competition, a backflip done on the backside wall.

Whether it’s for pure speed or halfpipe tricks, these boards will give you better control. In the market for a new snowboard, but don't really know where to start? We've done the research to ...