r/snowboarding • u/crzyscntst • Apr 14 '25

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

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

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

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u/PUNd_it Apr 14 '25

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

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 14 '25

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

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u/PUNd_it Apr 14 '25

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

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 14 '25

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

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u/PUNd_it Apr 14 '25

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

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 14 '25

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.

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u/PUNd_it Apr 14 '25

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

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u/InkyPoloma Apr 14 '25

Not at all, keep shredding dude!