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Snowboarding Tricks - Alley Oops
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STEP 1: In doing this trick, make sure that you have enough air for the turn. Try to have good speed on the halfpipe. |
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STEP 2: Keep your board flat as you reach the lip of the halfpipe. You can grab the edge of your board for support as you initiate the turn. |
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STEP 3: Make a 180-degree turn when you are in the air. Turn frontside with your upper body. Move your board towards the direction of the turn. |
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STEP 4: Release the grab as you approach the lip of the halfpipe. Make sure that you will reach it with your board flat, just like before the turn. |
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STEP 5: Make a smooth landing and then ride away. |
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Tricks Overview
These are all the Snowboarding Tricks covered in our Tricks Section:
| 1: | Ollies |
| 2: | Wheelies |
| 3: | Butters |
| 4: | Air to Fakie |
| 5: | Nose and Tail Rolls |
| 6: | 50/50 Grinds |
| 7: | Rock-n-Roll Grinds |
| 8: | 180 Grinds |
| 9: | Five-O Grinds |
| 10: | Alley Oops |
| 11: | Backside 720 |
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Wednesday 14th March 2007 at 9:11:19 AM
Man it was hard for me to teach my 5 year old nephew how to pull off a tight alley oop. By watchin the animated video a bunch of times he learned. Thanks.
Thursday 26th July 2007 at 2:55:41 PM
hey you said keep your board flat the only problem is you enter a halfpipe off a trick vertical
Tuesday 14th August 2007 at 10:10:19 PM
ya its hard gettting enough speed for me ... unless u drop in... but ya unless u get some mad air ur not gonna turn 180 degrees right away
Tuesday 9th September 2008 at 11:45:20 PM
This tip is not wrong but it is not clear.The trick being displayed and described is a backside/frontside air. Basically you do a frontside/backside 180 on its respective wall (frontside 180s on the frontside wall etc.) because the wall leads you naturally into it.An alleyoop goes against this. Instead of doing a frontside 180 on the frontside wall you run a backside 180. The overall effect is that you are heading forward (further down the pipe) but you are facing and rotating opposite your momentum.
Friday 6th February 2009 at 3:08:14 PM
Well this looks like no alley-oop I've seen before (in skating at least). Alley-oop means, as the poster above said, rotating opposite from the expected way. On a snowboarding half pipe which gradually leads downhill, as you come up the toeside wall you'd do a backside air, as you come up the heelside wall you'd do a frontside air, so you'll rotate slightly over 180 degrees to be able to ride it out. On a non-snowboarding halfpipe that means you can't do anything alley-oop if you're riding straight up the transition - you have to be actually carving slightly in one direction or another to get the opposite rotation that you need for maximum style!
Monday 21st December 2009 at 9:43:38 PM
its probably best to grab the board with your right hand, so then you can turn your head to the left easier. (complete the 180 better) For what i was tought, where ever your head is turned, that is the way you are likely to go. :D
Tuesday 2nd February 2010 at 6:53:53 PM
I''ve been practicing that for quite some time, but i call it a fs/bs 180 . Isnt that right? What''s the difference between "alley-oop" and fs or bs 180?
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