I've been wanting to say this for years, but I needed the winter Olympics to remind me. I hate snowboard lingo! Specifically, I hate when the commentators adopt "California-dude-like" phrases when describing the action. This goes for freestyle skiing too.
Allow me to clarify. You have your regular winter sports, like downhill and slalom skiing, ski jumping, and figure skating or ice dancing. In these sports, the athletes do jumps, spins, lifts, rotations, and aerials. The rotations are counted by number expressions like double, triple, and quad.
But in the "dude" sports, like snowboard halfpipe, all the spins and aerials are called "tricks". A triple rotation is a 10-80, and you've got corks and grabs and switches and big air. I don't want to hear a 55 year old announcer use this language, especially when the same guy covers the non-dude sports in a totally different way. It's just annoying.
And while we're on the subject, couldn't they come up with a better term for the ski jump classes than "normal hill" and "large hill"? The word "normal" is so non-sport-like.
