![]() ![]() Alternately, “bonk” is a terrain park move for skiers and snowboarders, which basically means to bounce off an object. To get scientific, bonking is what happens when an athlete has completely depleted the glycogen stores in the muscles and liver. Use of the word “bonk” to describe the bottoming out of blood sugar levels dates back to the 1950s, when it appeared in a British film warning cyclists to eat when they pedaled or else. You just drop in, smack the lip … waapah! Drop down … swoopah! And then after that you just drop in, ride the barrel and get pitted, so pitted, like that.” 5. It's just like, you pull in and you just get spit right out 'em. Made virally famous (but not invented) by Micah Peasley, the surfer who was interviewed in 2002 on a morning news show in a clip that later went viral, forever dubbing Peasley the “So Pitted Guy.” As Peasley so eloquently put, “Oh, brah, it's just like … dude, you get the best barrels ever, dude. PittedĪ surfing term describing when a surfer gets barreled, or rides the hollow center of a breaking wave. SendĪ rock climbing term used beginning in the late 1990s to describe climbing a route without falling or resting on the rope, “send” has jumped genres to mountain biking, and now skiing, describing the act of a clean run, i.e. ![]() Originally used by rock climbers to describe a perfect crack in rock, use of the word “splitter” widened sometime in the mid-2000s to include other things of high quality-non-uniform cracks that are fun to climb, and strangely, good weather. (Gaffney’s Numerical Assessment of Radness) Points scale, which assigned points to skiers doing rad things (like skiing naked) and subtracted points for un-rad things (like getting your ski pass revoked for skiing naked) to decide who the raddest skier on the mountain was. It later inspired Robb Gaffney and Shane McConkey’s G.N.A.R. ![]() From there, it’s spread to other sports, spawning the terms “the gnar” and “shred the gnar,” used in skateboarding, skiing, and snowboarding, to describe the act of performing well on tough terrain, waves, or features. Surfers started using it in the 1960s, describing dangerous waves. Gnarly has been around since at least the 1800s, a form of “gnarled,” meaning knotty-gnarled hands, gnarled tree branches, et cetera. The adventure lexicon is full of words like that, whether they originated in the 1800s or in the minds of the Wu-Tang Clan. It started with, believe it or not, Yankee Doodle Dandy, then was adopted by cowboys and dude ranches, then surfers, and now everyone else. For instance, you may refer to your climbing/skiing/mountain biking friends as “dude,” a word that originally referred to men who cared more than an average amount about their appearance. In the parlance of our outdoor times, words sometimes take on meanings very different from their original intent. ![]()
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