If you asked me to define "jib line" two days ago, I would have said "a rope tied to the little sail up at the pointy end of the boat," but I would have been wrong. A few days ago, when desperate snowboarders shoveled snow into a run in front of Johnson House, the Safety Police arrived and dismantled the thing. Then, in a stunning, unexplained reversal, Maintenance trucks appeared with loads of ice shavings from the hockey rink. Next, a picnic table was delivered, and the kids were given back the section of antenna tower they had seized from the school.
It turns out the table, antennae and railings they slide on are "jibs," and the run is a "jib line." Are you with me?
When you "hit it" (snowboard down the run), a jump sails you up onto the table (which is a jib) and you skid down the antenna (another jib) doing things called "50/50" and "front press." The result is always disaster.
Siddharth lobs a snowball at the cameraman.
