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How to choose a Snowboard
Type of Structure
Camber / Single Camber
The general shape. It's effective by all scenes. A center part rises, and turn can be handled freely. You can excel stability at the time of high speed, and the performance excellent in a carving is shown in particular. For the high repulsive force structure, The Ollie and Nollie are easy to try. But an edge tends to catch compared with the flat camber structure and the rocker structure. If you're a beginner, accustoming will be necessary.
PurePop Camber (BURTON)
Hybrid type of the camber and flat structure. The flat zone is provided for outer part from a foothold in addition to the repulsive force and the response peculiar to camber. The nose and tail part are to turn rather early, and I tend to make a board slide, and it corresponds to a little more pop movement of catching of an edge.
Double Camber
This board has 2 camber parts and has both the special quality of the single camber board and the Rocker board. The central part is Rocker structure and under the both feet is camber structure.
It's recommended to an all-rounder.
Flying V (BURTON)
Compared with the double camber structure, the rocker element between and outside your feet was strengthened.
Flat Camber / Zero Camber
The effective edge zone is flat and touch a snow surface tightly. A reverse edge is difficult to do because a face is flat. This board faces to the jib and the ground trick. The movement of spin is also easy.
But it's unsuitable to take out the height by a jump compared with the camber structure because the rebellion of a board is little. Stability at the time of high speed is also inferior compared with the camber structure.
Rocker
A center part touches the ground for the rocker structure. When I weight one of feet, a foot on the reverse side is rising. Which catching of an edge is little, a tail or a nose tends to rise. It faces to the powder, the ground trick and jibbing.
On the other hand, a edge to catch a snow surface is difficult. and the carving performance is inferior. and repulsive force of a jump is inferior. The reverse edge is difficult to do. Even if a beginner and the strength in the legs are weak, the structure it's easy to deal with which.
Double Rocker
There are 2 rocker parts. It's similar to the camber structure.
A contact area with snow consists of the camber structure toward the center, and it's the rocker shape for the outside from this part.
There are high repulsive force structure and steady edge which is the feature of the camber structure.Further, catching of an edge is little, and there is good operability by the rocker structure.
It's for all-rounders.
Flat Rocker
The structure similar to a flat camber. The shape that a flat face was reduced and the nose and the tail were made the rocker shape. Compared with a flat camber, jibbing and a powder run are easy. There is gliding stability more than the rocker structure. It's good at use at a park. But it's not good at use a kicker because a repulsive force is little.
Directional Flat Top (BURTON)
It's the rocker structure from a flat to a nose and brings excellent stability and the high buoyancy. A floating sense on deep powder is raised.
Directional Camber (BURTON)
The camber structure under the foot raises stability of turn.
And it enables to turn sharply because a nose part is the rocker structure.
Directional Flying V (BURTON)
A blend of a locker and a camber raises the buoyancy, and the riding with control and stability is made possible.
Type of Nose and Tail Shape
Tapered Shape
The board which took a nose from a tail rather a little widely. A rise of the operability of the turn and a rise of the buoyancy on the powder snow can be expected.
Directional Shape
This board is different in the tail shape and the nose shape. Mainly, the north side is long, and the tail side becomes short. Stability to a direction of movement and the operability are good and are a free ride and boards for free runs. A binding mounting point is set toward a tail.
Twin Shape / Twin Chip
The shape of the tail and the nose is the same board. Which facing also gives us the same operability, regular and fakie. The type which emphasized a trick and a pipe. A binding mounting point is set as the center of the board.
Directional Twin
The shape to which the directional shape and the twin shape were added.The shape of the tail and the nose is "same" or "about the same". A binding mounting point is set toward a tail.
Swallow Tail
A tail part is the shape like the swallow. Tail part sinks into a snow surface, saves the nose part and gets the buoyancy. That tail part is depressed, it's possible to get the steady operability.
Detail of Snowboard parts
Board Size
The standard from which a board is chosen is minus 15 cm of the height.When stand a board, it's the length which is during olfactories from a jaw. When a board becomes short, you tend to turn recently, and when it becomes long, increases in direct advance stability at the time of high speed.
Effective Edge
The length of the contact snow surface. The chosen rule of thumb, the height x 0.7cm. For example when it's height 175cm, it'll be 175 x 0.7 = 122.5cm. Effective Edge is an element more important than the Board Size. When it's rather short, turn and a trick are easy to do. It's bet on being too short in direct advance stability. When it's rather long, you can excel direct advance stability at the time of high speed. Powder snow also becomes easy. It's too long,quick operability and trick becames difficult to do.
Waist Width
The width of the midsection of a board. The chosen rule of thumb is the minus 1 cm of size of boots.
When it's thin, easy to turn. When it's too thin, a foot sticks out of a board, and an edge doesn't span and is sometimes reversed.When it's thick, increase in sense of stability. When it's too thick, need the big power to take it around.
Waist Ratio
Waist Ratio = Waist Width / Board Size.
The ratio of the waist width to the total length.
The rule of thumb which predicts whether it's a thick board or a thin board.
Nose Width
The width in front of the board.
Tail Width
The width behind the board.
Sidecut Radius
The numerical value of the radius of the turn put on the board.
For example when this value is 7.9m, the shape of the arc when drawing a circle of radius 7.9m, is shown.
It can't be said that it's easy to turn so that the side cut radius is small. Attention is needed.
Sidecut Depth
The numerical value to know the depth of the sidecut.
Sidecut Depth Ratio
Sidecut Depth Ratio＝Sidecut Depth / Effective Edge.
The ratio of the side cut depth to the effective edge.The structure which curves in the interior so that the numerical value is big. To the extent the numerical value is small, the structure near the straight line.
Stance Location
The center of gravity is usually shifting the stance center in the rear (the tail side) from a center position of a board. (Setback value) Stability to a direction of movement is raised by that.
The setback value is big like a board of the powder specification.
The center of the board is stance location for park and pipe board mainly.