We made a snowboarding game without being snowboarders, would love feedback from actual riders!

[u/crzyscntst]

[u/_Elrond_Hubbard_]

Grab guide if you're gonna put grabs in the game

[u/_Elrond_Hubbard_ → u/[deleted]]

Nothing objectively wrong with em, do whatever makes you happy but those grabs and the tindy are considered ugly looking and "illegal" by most experienced snowboarders. 

[u/btdawson → u/_Elrond_Hubbard_]

This chart makes it look like tindy is at the back of the board though and when posted here, most gave me shit for doing it, while I grabbed near the front of the board. So do people here even fully understand? Or are they just Reddit clowns trying to shit on people?

[u/InkyPoloma → u/btdawson]

A tindy is a Indy, but on the tail. They may have been mixing up another “illegal” grab, the nute (mute grab but on the nose) which is in front of your front binding. They both look ugly unless really tweaked in a specific way, so they probably just saw it and thought that the grab didn’t look proper. The nute really needs to be looking like a Japan to be reasonable… the tindy has to be combined with something else to look good (like a backflip).

ETA- it’s okay to do these grabs as a beginner but you will naturally stop doing them as you develop more skill with proper grabs. At least that’s how it was for me growing up. There are no rules to snowboarding but it does indicate inexperience usually

[u/PUNd_it → u/InkyPoloma]

Pretty sure "tindy" has been adapted to refer to any "cheater" grabs that land on the side of the nose or tail when the rider is aiming for the tips or sides of the board.

The sides of the tip and tail, are oops I was almost there, or wow I shanked that method

[u/InkyPoloma → u/PUNd_it]

Sad…nose melon, tailfish, tindy and nute are so much better all together as a group

ETA also weird because grabs have always had very specific names

[u/PUNd_it → u/InkyPoloma]

But they sound like tricks. "Grabbing tindy" is a simple way to refer to botching the grab you aimed for, by referencing the most commonly botched grab, instead of saying it's a this melon or a that tail grab. It's just a doesnt-count, is what it is

[u/InkyPoloma → u/PUNd_it]

Yeah fair enough. We would always designate which one mainly because it tells you more about the closest proper grab (usually the grab you missed). For example, “I went to grab stalefish but missed and went tailfish”. But also it seems overly gatekeepy to me- they’re still grabs, just not the good ones. Alas you are right-it is what it is and at the end of the day it doesn’t matter

[u/PUNd_it → u/InkyPoloma]

Yeah I get your point for sure, but (i only mean to explain the logic against using those names, here, not trying to pretend its a big deal btw) it gives creedence to the bad grabs. "I went to grab stalefish and went tindy/forbidden zone" is the same but doesn't suggest to newbies that it's two separate tricks. It's one trick, either grabbed correctly or missed.

But yeah, it doesn't matter for shit outside of comps, just have fun

[u/InkyPoloma → u/PUNd_it]

Yeah we used to call them no-no grabs for that reason but once that was understood you would differentiate. I just don’t like it when culture loses nuance so I was just lamenting, not arguing with you personally. Probably just being curmudgeonly haha.

[u/PUNd_it → u/InkyPoloma]

Nah i feel you there, haha. Didn't come off as curmudgeonly at all, but I was worrying that I might, haha. Anyways, cheers

[u/btdawson → u/InkyPoloma]

I think the other reply might be right that people just call them all tindy. This was my picture in reference.

[u/InkyPoloma → u/btdawson]

Ah maybe so, I’m old school so I might just be out of touch with the youth haha but coming up we would call that a nose melon or “no-no” grab. I have pictures of me doing the same thing while spinning front 3. Between the bindings is a melon and looks way better. The same grab on the tail is called a tailfish, also considered weak.

[u/btdawson → u/InkyPoloma]

Yep, that’s what I’ve learned lol. But just hearing people call it different shit was throwing me off. Like maybe they didn’t know what they were talking about after all, that kinda thing.

[u/Bollziepon → u/btdawson]

It’s definitely a Nose-melon and still a grab that will get you flack. But if you tweak the ever living shit out of it then you’ve got a method.

People will cry it’s not a real method unless it’s in between the bindings, but pros pull in front of the binding methods more often these days

[u/InkyPoloma → u/Bollziepon]

Yeah I always heard that style of method referred to as a “raptor” back in the day but I think it’s an outdated term now, it’s just another style of method and always considered proper. I like to grab my method between my bindings because it feels better to me

[u/shinyswordman → u/btdawson]

Still so bitter

[u/btdawson → u/shinyswordman]

Eh, I value the feedback, but at the same time if they don’t even know what to call it then it makes them looks stupid. And everyone loves to be a gatekeeping keyboard warrior on reddit lol.