It was a dreadlocked Nick Perata who coined the term ‘jibbing’ circa 1990, meaning to bonk, slide and otherwise ride anything other than snow. As he put it, that might be “rocks, trees, small children…” (ironically, Perata’s most famous jib would prove to be a rock grind… with his head! Check out the hideous slam at number two!)

Snowboarding has always been influenced by skateboarding (the first halfpipe was dug in Tahoe, California, in the mid 1980s) so when skaters stepped out of the park and onto the streets – sliding ledges, handrails and picnic benches – it was only natural that shredders would follow. However, the mid 90s saw something of a backlash from traditional powder riders, who were still the dominant force in movie making. For them, snowboarding was about chasing deep snow, big cliffs and newlines, not hopping about on a few puny feet of wood, and a merciless piss-take in Creatures of Habit2 characterised ‘the Jibbers’ as a group of squeaky-voiced kids whose balls hadn’t dropped, with tent-like trousers and insanely wide stances.

If only they knew the massive movement that was to come, they might not have been so smug. In 1997, JP Walker single-handedly brought jibbing into the mainstream with his seminal part in MDP’s Simple Pleasures. Several more Mack Dawg appearances followed, in which he and his Utah buddy and Forum team mate Jeremy Jones proved that you could mix balls-out powder kickers with equally consequential rails. Artificial park set-ups were now merely a testing ground for tricks before ‘taking it to the streets’, and today jibbing – of both the tight trouser ed and gangster variety– is a staple of every snowboard film. And with bungee tow-ins opening up whole new possibilities in terms of urban gaps, who knows where the limits lie? There are only two rules when it comes to jibbing on film: include a few toe-curling slams, and keep the original sound of p-tex on metal. Wzzzzzzzzzzz – tink!