“I was feeling pretty squirrelly takin’ off on the 45 foot booter, but I was still able to stomp my backside double cork 900 with some crunchy steez.” For the uninitiated, shredding is riding with incredible style and attitude, the gnar is some gnarly terrain, Woolly is the incredibly talented woolly mammoth that shreds Mammoth Mountain, and latez today is this afternoon. “I’m gonna shred the gnar with Woolly latez today.” Literally: “ There is freshly fallen snow on the very large freestyle feature at an undisclosed resort in the Lake Tahoe Region, bro.” “There’s freshies on the super-jib in Tahoe, brah.”Ī phrase popularized by Tony Hawk in the opening sequence of “The White Album” featuring Shaun White. So, for both the learned and the unlearned, here are some of the words, phrases, and lingo you’ll need to know if you want to converse with someone speaking Shred. I’m gonna have a pretty squirrelly time tryin’ to land this one with any steez, cuz I’m riding fakie when it comes to languages.”Īfter class, my professor pointed out what should have been obvious to me: I was fluent in at least one foreign language. So, when given this playwriting assignment, I exclaimed: “Ouch, what a harsh drop-in. Now, I was too busy ripping pow and daydreaming about gnarly jib lines in high school to absorb the lessons of my stale Dutch Spanish teacher. In a college playwriting class, I was given the assignment to write a multilingual play where the characters spoke at least two different languages. Athlete Profile: Q&A with Taylor Fletcher by Katie Kearsey.Athlete Profile: Q&A with Meg Olenick by Katie Kearsey.Athlete Profile: Q&A with Justin Morgan by Katie Kearsey.Athlete Profile: Q&A with Ted Ligety by Eric Wagnon.Athlete Profile: Q&A with JP Auclair by Katie Kearsey.The Best Boot Bags: One Ski Mom’s Opinion by Kristen Lummis.Teaching Kids to Ski & Snowboard: Help Your Little.
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