Slo Mo Trick Tips – How To Backside Rodeo On A Snowboard

Now the powder has well and truly arrived in Euoroland, it’s time to start shaping a few powder booters, and what could be better for learning to get upside down than two foot of fresh? Once you’ve mastered the backside 180 and had a go a chucking a few backflips you might want to progress a little further and start chucking one of the all time best tricks in snowboarding: the backside rodeo. In technical terms, it’s known as the backside rodeo 540 as it combines one full flip (counted as 360 degrees) plus a back 180 – but now double, triple and quad corks are a thing this method of addition can become confusing – just stick to calling it a rodeo and pedantic internet trolls might just leave you alone. Originally invented by the one and only Peter Line, he himself decreed that you spin whilst flipping and a true rodeo doesn’t go completely inverted (just look at the video above, only one of Jamie Trinder’s feet goes above his head, so it’s technically a cork rather than a flip), though today a b