Choice of length, width and flexibility of the snowboard
Improve your skiing experience by opting for a snowboard adapted to your size and level.
Board length
Your height and weight
Remember that it is important to choose the board according to your height and weight. By making the right choice, you will gain in maneuverability and stability. To find out how to choose your snowboard according to your size, do not hesitate to consult a size chart. Generally, it is advisable to choose a board that is 15 to 20 centimeters smaller than your own size. It must therefore reach between the shoulders and the chin.
Board width
Your size
You can simply base yourself on the size of your feet. This is a metric to take into account in particular to ensure better control of curves. Obviously, this is a concept to adapt to your personal situation, especially to your riding style: if you mainly do freestyle, you can turn to a slightly narrower board to gain maneuverability, while a rider evolving on powder or freeride will be able to choose a wider board that will offer him better stability.
Board flexibility
The flex
For a beginner, we will prefer flexible snowboards that are generally more tolerant. A rigid snowboard will offer better stability at high speed and a more precise response, and will therefore be preferred for slightly more confirmed riders.
How do I choose my snowboard according to my riding style?
Another element to take into account to know how to choose your snowboard: there are different types of snowboards depending on your practice, namely freestyle, freeride and all-mountain.
The Freestyle
For riders who like to do acrobatic tricks. This type of snowboard is usually shorter, lighter and more flexible, to facilitate your maneuvers and rotations. Freestyle snowboards are also often called twintip shape, i.e. they are perfectly symmetrical between the front and back, to allow you to ride in switch.
Our Freestyle snowboards
The Freeride
If you are planning to take off-piste routes in nature. Unlike freestyle boards, freeride snowboards are called directional shape, i.e. they have a longer front than the back. Freeride snowboards are to be favored to make more beautiful turns, benefit from a better grip on hard snow or to float better in powder. They allow to maintain greater stability at high speed and obtain a better grip.
Our Freeride snowboards
All mountain
It is a combo between Freestyle and Freeride board types. All-mountain snowboards adapt to all terrains: slopes, off-pistes, snowpark. They combine maneuverability, stability and versatility.
Our snowboards All mountainTake into account your level to choose your snowboard
The choice of your board depends directly on your level, because the more experience you gain, the more you know what you want to accomplish, and the better you are able to choose the right snowboard.
I am a beginner
I will rather move towards a freestyle board with a twin tip shape and a flex that forgives almost everything. I could then experiment within tracks and their edges, gradually attack powder passages by pressing well on my hind leg and why not try some jumps and rails on adapted parks.
I have an intermediate level
I will move towards an all-mountain board with a slight set-back (back fixings on the board to relieve the back leg in freeride practice). Equipped with a generally slightly more rigid flex, it will allow me to go everywhere without forcing. More stable, faster, less tiring and more precise in freeride, it easily becomes a basic material when you have several boards specific to each practice (quiver).
I have an advanced level
I will move towards more atypical, more typed boards. The time has come to be interested in directional shape, progressive rocker and boards so precise that I will be able to reinvent my practice, on and off-piste. I am aware that it will be more difficult to manage in freestyle, but once again nothing is impossible! I don't want to give up my park facilities, so I'm going to keep this beautiful board that will have made me grow and evolve and make me a quiver. I will thus be optimally equipped to meet all my desires and situations!
The components of a snowboard
1. The nose
This is the front part of the board, it influences the flotation.
2. The tail
This is the rear part of the board, which has an influence on the stability and manoeuvrability of the board.
3. The core
It is the central part of the board, it influences the flexibility, lightness and reactivity of the board.
4. The edges
These are the metal edges located on each side of the board, they have an influence on the grip and control of the turns.
5. The base
This is the lower part of the board in contact with the snow, which has a direct influence on gliding.
6. The inserts
These are the holes in the board where the fixings are placed, to be chosen according to preferences, the size of the feet and the style of ride practised.
7. Abs sidewall
It is the sides of the board, which, in addition to offering additional protection, influence the absorption of shocks and the transmission of energy.
8. The camber
We are talking about the longitudinal curvature of the board (classic, inverted, flat or hybrid), which influences the stability, rebound and the quality of taking the turns.
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How to choose your snowboard? the complete guide
The choice of your board will be decisive to optimize your performance and take maximum pleasure. Its maneuverability and stability will give you security, by being more confident on your board, and comfort to avoid pain.