this has been covered in a transworld magazine years ago. ill go get it.
and here we are (yes, im going to write it out as i have an hour to kill before work):
prebang: prebang is the most visible when hiking is in order. it usually starts innocently enough with strapping in and wiping the snow off your butt or jacket, then moving into a full-blown bang with the goggle check and pants tug into a topsheet sticker-stoke wipedown followed with a deep, 'im about to do something gnarly, check me out' breath, (actually saying it could destroy the whole nonchalantness the bangee is going for in the first place)
midbang: this is a hard one to pull off, but nonetheless its tried often. midbang in most cases takes place right before the lip of a jump. it can go one of two ways- during an approach the rider will: a) limit all arm movement to adjusting headphones and/or ipod (walkmans are so 2002), making it look as if they dont even care that theres a 100-foot gap bearing down quick, or b) the exact opposite- winding up, making sure the chicks/dudes chillin park-side are fully aware of the schralpitude of what is about to go down.
afterbang: the stunt part has been pulled, so now its time to let bystanders know just how easy it was. in most instances this is achieved by letting the whole upper body go limp, as if there werent a bone left from the waist up. this alerts the crowd to just how relaxed the rider is. with that comes letting the knees go as if both were hit from behind with a lead pipe. in extreme cases theres monkey-like arm swinging.
latebang: this occurs when the shredder in question tries to get away with afterbanging more than twenty feet after a jumps landing. do not, we repeat, do not try this under any circumstances. there is nothing pretty about this. it looks more like pee-shiver than style, making all efforts put in to the jump null and void.
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sometimes when im running water to wash dishes or something, i think about how lucky i am to have access to running water and how some people will never know such a simple pleasure.
then i let it run for awhile, just because i can.