Olympic Literacy

In order to fully appreciate Olympic half-pipe, you got to know the lingo, so go check out the glossary for such terms as these:

McTwist
An inverted aerial where the you perform a 540 degree rotation and a flip. When done in the halfpipe, you approach the halfpipe wall riding forward, becomes airborne, do a backside 540 degree rotation while performing a front flip, and land riding forward. When done off a straight jump it’s called a Misty flip.

and this:

Fakie
Riding backwards. Also called riding switch.

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