Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
count tres
English translation:
counter 360
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Charles Davis
Jan 25, 2011 21:42
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Snowboarding trick
I'm translating the subtitles of a snowboarding video. In this section, the snowboarder is describing the tricks he did at a competition. (If it helps for understanding what kind of trick this is, the competition was the Nike 6.0 Stairset Battle Tour--they are doing tricks over a set of stairs. See http://vimeo.com/17794164 to get an idea of the feature he was working on--a set of stairs with a rail and a "down-flat" section)
The snowboarder says:
begin="00:00:55 " end="00:00:57" Es que lo que tenia pensao’ la verdad que me ha salido bien…< >
begin="00:00:58 " end="00:00:59" ahí el count tres y el backside tres …< >
begin="00:00:59 " end="00:01:04" Y luego lo demás .. pues disfrutar. Ha sido pasármelo bien y ya está. < >
That's it for context.
"count tres" must be some kind of trick--a "backside 3" is a kind of trick. However, I haven't been able to find out anything more about this particular trick, and I'm not a trick snowboarder myself!
It's also possible that this is not the exact term...in the transcription I received, the words "count tres" were highlighted (along with one other term in the text), which makes me believe that the subtitler was not sure about what the athlete said. Unfortunately, I do not have the audio or video file.
Thanks for your help!
The snowboarder says:
begin="00:00:55 " end="00:00:57" Es que lo que tenia pensao’ la verdad que me ha salido bien…< >
begin="00:00:58 " end="00:00:59" ahí el count tres y el backside tres …< >
begin="00:00:59 " end="00:01:04" Y luego lo demás .. pues disfrutar. Ha sido pasármelo bien y ya está. < >
That's it for context.
"count tres" must be some kind of trick--a "backside 3" is a kind of trick. However, I haven't been able to find out anything more about this particular trick, and I'm not a trick snowboarder myself!
It's also possible that this is not the exact term...in the transcription I received, the words "count tres" were highlighted (along with one other term in the text), which makes me believe that the subtitler was not sure about what the athlete said. Unfortunately, I do not have the audio or video file.
Thanks for your help!
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | counter three (= 360) |
Charles Davis
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counter three (= 360)
I would like to start by saying that I am not a trick snowboarder either. However...
A "backside tres" is a backside 360, a pretty standard (albeit difficult) move, by all accounts (my son, who knows about skateboarding, told me this).
But the only thing I can see that "count" might be is "counter-rotation", and similarly the "tres" is presumably short for 360:
"Learn to Snowboard Painlessly
A new approach to teaching/learning snowboarding
Basic counter-rotational turn"
http://www.learn-snowboard.com/basic-counter-rotational-turn...
"Snowboarding season is coming soooooon!!!! [...] The counter 360 is progressing nicely. I going to have an awesome party trick."
http://www.myspace.com/forums/t/1316475/p/12959595?SortOrder...
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-01-25 23:29:20 GMT)
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Hmm, well, I don't feel at all confident here, but:
"Counter-rotation" (if this is what "count" refers to) means "Basic body movement where the upper body rotates in the opposite direction to the board during a rotational movement."
http://www.snowboard-coach.com/snowboard-skills-terminology....
So it seems "counter" is a way of initiating a turn; it's not specifically backside or frontside (which refer to whether the front or the back of the rider's body are facing towards the outside of the arc of rotation).
Counter-rotation is quite well explained here: http://www.afterbang.co.uk/blog/2010/05/15/snowboarding-free...
It also links to a site called Snowboard Addiction which has training videos.
But whether "count 3" means a "reverse 360", I'm afraid I don't know. All I really have to contribute here is the suggestion that "count" may be short for "counter".
A "backside tres" is a backside 360, a pretty standard (albeit difficult) move, by all accounts (my son, who knows about skateboarding, told me this).
But the only thing I can see that "count" might be is "counter-rotation", and similarly the "tres" is presumably short for 360:
"Learn to Snowboard Painlessly
A new approach to teaching/learning snowboarding
Basic counter-rotational turn"
http://www.learn-snowboard.com/basic-counter-rotational-turn...
"Snowboarding season is coming soooooon!!!! [...] The counter 360 is progressing nicely. I going to have an awesome party trick."
http://www.myspace.com/forums/t/1316475/p/12959595?SortOrder...
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-01-25 23:29:20 GMT)
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Hmm, well, I don't feel at all confident here, but:
"Counter-rotation" (if this is what "count" refers to) means "Basic body movement where the upper body rotates in the opposite direction to the board during a rotational movement."
http://www.snowboard-coach.com/snowboard-skills-terminology....
So it seems "counter" is a way of initiating a turn; it's not specifically backside or frontside (which refer to whether the front or the back of the rider's body are facing towards the outside of the arc of rotation).
Counter-rotation is quite well explained here: http://www.afterbang.co.uk/blog/2010/05/15/snowboarding-free...
It also links to a site called Snowboard Addiction which has training videos.
But whether "count 3" means a "reverse 360", I'm afraid I don't know. All I really have to contribute here is the suggestion that "count" may be short for "counter".
Note from asker:
| Hi Charles. Thanks a lot to you and your son--this is really helpful. I wonder whether this might be called a "reverse 360", then, or something using "frontside" or "backside". |
| Thanks a lot for the additional note and links! |
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Comment: "Thanks a lot for your help on this question, Charles. I ended up going with "counter 360," which seemed a bit more frequent than "counter three." "
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