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skyno said:
Great thread by the way - it got me thinking about where Grom comes from - apparently from surfing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grommet_(sportsperson)
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Never ever heard this one. I remember hearing "sick" for the first time in grade school, like early 80's from this dude who grew up in S Sac, hell of an athlete. I think he picked it up from playing hoops. He wasn't into bmx or any other non-ball sports. Its been an important part of my petty vocab lol.
 
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"Jib-bonk" then (fore)shortened to "Jib" or "Bonk" stemmed from early 90's Summit County CO snowboard circles. I first heard it at A-Basin or Copper Mtn in the spring of 92 ((?) those days are a foggy dream)

The term predates the existence of snowboard parks, so one would scour the hill for little features that you could mimic skateboarding tricks on.

We didn't consider popping off the snow an ollie since you are strapped in, so it was a jib. That said you wouldn't pop off the flat(ish) snow unless there was some sort of feature, so the Jib, was always followed by a Bonk if executed correctly. A purposeful, and audible bonk followed by no hand drag was enough to keep one Stoked for days.

These dudes were the first ones to use the term, although it did not end up in the film... GoodTimes.

 
#25 ·
Brah said:
Gaper goes back to the 80s in the Tahoe area.

The word 'gaper' was used to describe a tourist or anyone from the Bay Area.
It didn't have anything to do with skiing, but there were plenty of gapers on the hill.
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Weird, I grew up in Denver and in the 80's and 90's always heard gapers referred to as skiers whom had a gap between their beanie and goggles ( nobody wore helmets back then). It typically was used in the same form as what you're referring to but not Tahoe specific.

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#27 ·
My ears were burning.
Did someone summon me to the white courtesy phone?

I always get the question - do you sail?

Here's the story on how I got my username.

Remember when snowboarding was just getting started? Back in the day, before terrain parks. My friends and I would watch them from the lift. They would build a kicker and ride down, go off the jump and then hike back up to do it again. All day.
The word 'jib' is/was used by skateboarders and then snowboarders. A jib is a trick. The winner of a terrain park/half pipe competition is/was known as the 'jibmaster'. While I have been known to hang out in the terrain park, this was not the reason for my username.
The snowboarders who were hiking up to hit that jump again and again, weren't really riding the resort. In our opinion, they weren't taking snowboarding very seriously. They were simply having fun.
So - my friends and I started to call our outdoor sports (mt. biking, skiing, kayaking, rock climbing) jibbing.
We weren't at work, we were having fun.

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So one day-about 20 years ago, my buddy calls me up and asks if I had done any jibbing on my weekend. I told him that I had gone skiing, kayaking and mt. biking. He says, "Damn dude! You're always jibbing. You're like the...jib...master!

And it stuck.

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Too this day, the word 'jib' in all it's forms is stuck in our vocabulary. It can be used as a verb, noun or adjective.
If you're not at work, you are jibbing.
If you're changing the oil in your car - you are jibbing on your vehicle.
You can also jib to the store.
All the people at the resort/backcountry are considered jibbers.

It can also be used in the derogatory sense. Like when everyone used to bash on the poor knuckle-draggers.
If you're stuck in traffic - "Damn all these jibbers!"
Someone cuts you off - "$#@! jibber!"
In a busy mall/resort - "Look at all these jibbers!"
 
#30 ·
I grew up in Illinois. I moved to the Bay Area in 1986.
Have lived in the Napa Valley since 1989.

Back in the early 80's, I had a friend that moved to LA.
He came back to visit and his verbiage was all about the word 'dude'.
It was 'dude' this and 'dude' that.
My friends and I thought that was so weird.
He had changed so much. We would make fun of him.

Then, I found out that my family was moving to California.
I swore I would never incorporate the word 'dude' in my vocabulary.

HA!
 
#31 ·
This is a great chance to start a new slang word! Pick some stupid phrase, right here, and start using it. It would be interesting to see if it "took".
 
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jibmaster said:
My ears were burning.
Did someone summon me to the white courtesy phone?

I always get the question - do you sail?

Here's the story on how I got my username.

Remember when snowboarding was just getting started? Back in the day, before terrain parks. My friends and I would watch them from the lift. They would build a kicker and ride down, go off the jump and then hike back up to do it again. All day.
The word 'jib' is/was used by skateboarders and then snowboarders. !"
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52 years old and been around skateboarding since the 70's. Skateboarders don't jib. Never have. Never will.
 
#35 ·
Well hell - what do I know. I have never skateboarded. Never hung out with any
skateboarders. I just assumed.
I've only snowboarded for two days at Jackson Hole when I skied there for the season
back in '90/'91.

Never surfed either.

I'm old don't listen to me.
Senility creeps up on you...

"GET OFF MY LAWN!!"

damn kids
 
#36 ·
sosburn said:
my brother says loc a lot but only when talking about surfing, as in locals. i know its a common word in the surf world but surfing tends to be very aggressive about local spots, whereas riding bikes is more about venturing out of your area...
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True dat! Having both surfed and mountain biked in SC for over 20 years, Loc in Santa Cruz was born out of a territorial ownership type of mindset, the opposite of which is Tranny (which has nothing to do with one's clothing or sexual preferences.)

I hope the forest never turns into the jungle that the ocean has become.

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#37 ·
JCWages said:
No one I know uses the word "loc" and the only people I hear use "Randy" are the Petersen bothers.

Shreddy, sendy, send it, jib, etc. get used a lot around Auburn though as well as a lot of the racers in the CES series throughout Cali. You see a lot of the same words used on IG but not Randy or loc.
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Cali....oh Mr. Wages, why are you using this term?!?

Curmudgeon rant:

This is slang I do not get...the only people I know who use this term for California are people who are not living in California, are not from California, or wear one of the tourist shirts sold at places like Fisherman's Wharf or Cannery Row that have that word on it.

it's like that stupid-ass term "The O.C."....I grew up in Orange County...NOBODY local uses that term for it...it was developed and pushed into use by that moronic soap operatic television show...

Or like the use of "Frisco" or "San Fran"...locals don't call it that...use those words there and you certainly will expose the fact you are not a local and indeed are clueless...

Perhaps we should start calling Auburn "The Aub" or simply "....'burn..." I am sure someone can come up with an appropriate moronic term to put on t-shirts when the area becomes the next true MTB mecca!
 
#38 ·
Uh, every punker in the US and every cholo in SoCal called it OC.

Ask Rikk Agnew and the Adolescents. Here's an article from OCweekly about the classic 1982 anthem "OC Life"

'OC Life': Who Did It Best? D.I., Offspring, Zebrahead and Rikk Agnew | OC Weekly

...and anyone who's Down with the Sco calls it Frisco - herb Caen was wrong and tricked generations of suckers.

"San Fran" does scream "IM FROM OC NOT SF" I'll give you that.

Bokchoicowboy said:
Cali....oh Mr. Wages, why are you using this term?!?

Curmudgeon rant:

This is slang I do not get...the only people I know who use this term for California are people who are not living in California, are not from California, or wear one of the tourist shirts sold at places like Fisherman's Wharf or Cannery Row that have that word on it.

it's like that stupid-ass term "The O.C."....I grew up in Orange County...NOBODY local uses that term for it...it was developed and pushed into use by that moronic soap operatic television show...

Or like the use of "Frisco" or "San Fran"...locals don't call it that...use those words there and you certainly will expose the fact you are not a local and indeed are clueless...

Perhaps we should start calling Auburn "The Aub" or simply "....'burn..." I am sure someone can come up with an appropriate moronic term to put on t-shirts when the area becomes the next true MTB mecca!
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mtbrdan said:
52 years old and been around skateboarding since the 70's. Skateboarders don't jib. Never have. Never will.
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That's right, we still sprack, schralp and shuvit, though.

I've go a couple of years on ya - my first board was a Black Knight with clay wheels. I was in middle school when urethane wheels came out and 2 years later it was punk rock. What a time to grow up!
 
#40 ·
DH40 said:
Uh, every punker in the US and every cholo in SoCal called it OC.

Ask Rikk Agnew and the Adolescents. Here's an article from OCweekly about the classic 1982 anthem "OC Life"

'OC Life': Who Did It Best? D.I., Offspring, Zebrahead and Rikk Agnew | OC Weekly

...and anyone who's Down with the Sco calls it Frisco - herb Caen was wrong and tricked generations of suckers.

"San Fran" does scream "IM FROM OC NOT SF" I'll give you that.
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OC is legit...."The OC" is something never uttered by anyone I ever heard speak in any language or dialect from any of the neighborhoods across the county.
 
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