- Jumping off a lift has crossed your mind before

- You may have actually jumped off a lift

- You’re always like “Wait, I have to strap in”

- Your pants come down below your ass

- You don’t snowboard, you ride

- Your stoked about the idea of having a goggle tan

- You compete with your friends for the best goggle tan

- You can hold your head up high, stick your chest out and proudly say ‘I’m goofy’

- You look like a raccoon

- You have a countdown to the next season 

- You have enough snowboarding related gear to start your own second hand snowboard shop

- You get a job that you get weekends off to ride

- Your pass photo is better than your school photo

- You keep your board in the living room for decoration

- On a powder day you somehow come down with the flu and have to call in sick

- You wax your board in the middle of summer

- You look way cooler than the people with one plank on each foot

- People give you funny looks because of your effing gnarly goggle tan

- You have weird as snowboarding related dreams in the middle of summer

- You have trouble getting out of bed at 7 for school but have no problem getting up at 5:30 to shred

- You look at every pile of snow on the side of the road and think of how you could hit it

- You wake up and the first thing you think about is the weather outside

- You consider buying a $4000 snowmaker

- You see a slow sign and choose to ollie or bonk it instead of slowing down

- You’ve converted (or at least tried to convert) skiers to becoming snowboarders

- You’re burning up in the midst of 20 degrees fahrenheit

- You practice 1’s and 3’s in your living room

- You use your goggles as sunglasses in the summer

- You have 10 times as many snowboarding magazines as you do textbooks in your locker

-There is nothing you dread more than explaining what a cab double cork 1260 melon is to your friend who doesn’t snowboard

- Your movie collection is 90% shred vids and 10% actual movies

- You have those random but awesome convos on the chairlifts with people

- You’re just standing around and doing ollies even without a board

- You check yourself out in the mirror and you immediately motion a frontside boardslide

- You have a playlist for jibbing and a playlist for bombing

- You stand sideways

-You sleep on floors in cramped resort hotel rooms

- You get up early and go to sleep late

- You wreck yourself day in, day out and yet you stomp that one trick or find that one line that keeps you coming back

S - shred
N - nose grab
O - ollie
W - wax
B - boardslide
O - one-footer
A - alley oop 
R - rail
D - down box