Option Snowboards Joni Makinen Snowboard

Rock the entire mountain on the Option Joni Makinen Snowboard. This deck has been designed to keep up with messianic all-mountain shredder Joni Makinen. Free-riding day after day in Canada's steep and deep has helped Joni and Option make a board that is perfectly suited to throwing big tricks in tough terrain. Option's proven Carbon Tech II construction and Select wood core give this burly deck the durability and responsiveness needed to attack the steeps. Extra-tough sintered sidewalls are backed by Option's unique Powerail that reinforces the perimeter of the board for maximum impact protection. To maintain the break-neck speeds preferred by aggressive freeriders, the Makinen has a super-fast sintered 4000 IG base. The IG stands for Indium / Gallium alloy, a base component that reduces friction and increases speed. For the intermediate to advanced all-mountain ripper with bigger boots, the Makinen also comes in a wide version. Get the size that suits you the best and ride it hard, that's what Joni would do.

Bottom Line: W.W.J.M.D? Ride this board.

What you thought:

This board is great, it does whatever you tell it to. It's stiff to bomb the steeps, but also has good pop. It conforms to any terrain you're on. This board is a serious contender to any other top board any other company comes out with. - W.Butler

Option Snowboards Joni Makinen Snowboard Rock the entire mountain on the Option Joni Makinen Snowboard.

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Backside 180

A backside 180 is one of my favorite tricks. You can do it small while you're still learning, or huge and slow once you have it down. The technique is the same; the style is all yours.
Difficulty: Average

Time Required: Practice

Here's How:

1. Ride straight at a small bump or roller with the base of your board flat.
2. Stay flat-based until you're just about to take off.
3. At the lip of the jump, spring off of your toes.
4. Suck your legs up toward your chest and grab indy. (Once you've mastered the indy grab, experiment with grabbing mute, tail or doing a backside 180 method.)
5. Rotate slowly because you're only going to spin 180 degrees.
6. Look down between your legs to spot your landing.
7. Let go of your grab and extend your legs for the landing.
8. As you absorb the landing, continue looking uphill for just a second until your board is firmly planted. Then turn and ride away smoothly.

Tips:
Try to land a little bit on your toeside edge at first to avoid catching your heelside edge as you come around. Then get used to landing flat-based.

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Roast Beef Grab

Here is another of our newley started "how to's" posts. I hope you enjoy.

Pull a roast beef out of your bag of tricks and provide your friends with a chuckle and yourself with a little bit of snowboarding fun.

Difficulty: Average

Time Required: Practice

Here's How:

1. Ride straight at a roller with the base of your board flat.
2. Spring as hard as you can off the lip of the jump.
3. Suck your legs up as far as possible.
4. Grab your board on the heelside edge between your legs with your rear hand. (Don't reach around your legs, that's a stalefish.)

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Indy Grab

This is the first of many "how to's". So of course we should start with the easiest.

An indy grab is the quintessential "first trick". Once you get the hang of it, you can experiment with style by trying it tuck-knee or by boning it out (straightening your front leg).

Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: Practice
Here's How:

1. Ride straight at a roller with the base of your board flat.
2. Spring off the lip of the jump.
3. Don't bend over at the waist! Instead, suck your legs up so that your board will meet your hand.
4. Grab your board on the toeside edge between your feet with your rear hand.
5. Put your other arm into the air.
6. Put your other arm into the air.
7. Absorb the landing and ride away.

Tips:

As you improve, try adding an indy grab into your spins. But to sound cool, remember this: "indy" infers a backside spin; i.e. indy is never frontside. If you spin frontside and grab between your feet it is called a "frontside" grab.

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