Jesse Paul – nosepress 360 swivel nosepress

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This was the trick that set this post idea off, so here it is in all it’s glory once again.

Ethan Morgan – frontline rail jam – fs blunt 360 switch up fs blunt to fakie

Forgive us if the names of these tricks seem a little out there, when they’ve never been done before it’s not easy to decide what to call them. This one sent shivers down our spine when we witnessed it go down at the Frontline Rail Jam back at the start of this winter. Skip to 4:30 to see the madness for yourself. We have a feeling that this trick may have been done even cleaner than here but it’s proving harder to locate than Ethan’s snowboard edges.

LOUIF PARADIS – BS 270 TO FAKIE

Let’s face it, anyone who can do backside 360’s and has access to a suitable downrail could potentially learn the first part of this trick, but to stop that rotation after 270 degrees, while sliding on metal and then land fakie is something else entirely. That takes some serious bodily awareness and next level board control, which luckily, Louif has in spades as demonstrated in his banger part in Transworld’s 2008 full film ‘These Days’ (jump to 3:09 or watch the whole damn thing). This was the first time anyone had seen this trick and we’ve no doubt it caused thousands of snowboarders worldwide to completely destroy the rewind button on their TV remotes watching it back to work out how it was actually possible.

yawgoons – double jackson

If you’ve ever had the stones to try a Michael Jackson slide you’ll probably have learnt the hard way that they ain’t easy! The key to successful rail riding is to avoid edge contact at all costs, the best jibbers out there basically remove their entire edge between the bindings to avoid that fateful metal on metal frictionless death slide scenario, so when the Yawgoons posted this double Jackson slide in their latest video at least two members of the crew spent the best part of a morning researching PVC sheets to see if there was some kind of material trickery going on here. It’s just plain madness. Brain melted once again.

some dude – erection plant slide

This one might be the cause of some heated debated but it had to go in because we’ve never seen anything else like it, done intentionally. And no one said these were all pretty, but it certainly made us WTF?! We’ve had our fair share of heart in mouth moments when rail tricks have gone wrong or edges have been caught but the fact that this was actually done on purpose is the reason it blew our minds. Why this guy thought it was a good idea will always be beyond us, even if it does make for some fine internet viewing. Some call it the candle stick, some call it the tamedog to headbonk, this writer is calling it the erection plant slide because you gotta be pretty hard to try this one. Nah, but seriously though, erection plants are actually a thing.

Max Lyons – Cab 180 on Backside 900 Off

SO next level, but at the same time, really quite ugly to watch. This trick epitomises the whole spin-to-win mantra in snowboarding that a lot of people hate. We’re not saying that anyone who can’t spin more than 720 will mention that at any opportunity given (us included) but it is pretty mental that this is now possible for snowboarders. Granted, a perfectly locked in backlip is way more enjoyable to see, but we’ve seen thousands over the years. Progression in snowboarding is important otherwise it would be boring, trends and tastes and tricks change over time so you got to accept and embrace the new when you see it. This one blew our minds whether we like to admit it or not. Max Lyons you must have grown up in a NASA training facility to handle those kind of G’s… fair play.

Jason BROWN – TRIPLE PIPE RAIL TRANSFER

People raving about events like the Red Bull Double Pipe need to cool their beans because in Technical Difficulties there was a triple pipe, with rails in between the two decks and Jason Brown killed it (skip to 2:35). Coupled with the fact that those tricks was in the middle of Jeremy Jones part makes it even more wild, because to stand out in the midst of all that high quality jibbery from the man himself is quite a feat, especially when Jones lays into presses deeper than you ever could on a board stiffer than an abandoned old folks home.