Camber:
The arc under the ski/board when it rests unweighted on flat ground (snow).

Carving:
Explains a riding style mainly on the edge.

CAP:
Construction type and industry term for skis and boards with topsheets that wrap over the board’s sides and down to the edge making sidewalls unnecessary.

Carbon Fibers:
A glass fiber material with 92-99 % carbon content and are made from synthetic organic fiber, Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) or rayon. They have an impressive strength-to-weight-ratio, but are very expensive. Carbon fibers are used in boards, skis and bindings.

Carve:
Riding style mainly on the edges on slope;

CMYK:
Acronym for Cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow, black (the K stands for black). These four colours combine to produce all the colours and hues of a photograph. A graphic must first be broken down into these colour components before it can be silk-screened or sublimated onto a board. (see also sublimation)

Contest:
A racing competition

Coping:
Upper edge of halfpipe

Core:
The main component of a snowboard/ski construction. Cores are generally sandwiched between one ore more layers of other materials. Core materials are wood, foam or different combinations.

Corner:
Bank, riding straight in and the landing hill is 90° displaced.

D

Die-Cut Bases:
A graphic trend to design the base, it makes fast, but monotone, sintered bases look better. Two or more different colours of P-Tex are cut either with dies or CNC machines into the desired graphics and assembled like jigsaw puzzle.

Drift-turn:
Drifted, sliding turn

Drop in:
Riding into the halfpipe.

Duel:
Parallel slalom in alpine snowboarding

E

Effective Edge:
The sidecut portion of the edge, between where the tip and tail shapes begin.

Extruded:
An extruded material has been forced under pressure through a die (a shape hole). Spaghetti, for example, is an extruded product.