How to choose a snowboard for a beginner freerider

Winter is coming to its feet, which means that the skiing season for skiers and snowboarders will open soon. Someone will update their park of snowboards this winter, and someone will go to the store for the first time to buy their first snowboard, but how to choose the right snowboard for a beginner, I will tell you about this and reveal many secrets of choosing the perfect board for skiing.

To choose the right snowboard does not require a lot of knowledge, the main thing is the desire to learn how to ride. And the desire, as a rule, disappears after several falls or a serious injury, which happened to me, after a broken arm I had no desire to stand on the board for more than a year.

Let's return to the question of how to choose a snowboard for a beginner or an advanced freerider. Most snowboarding enthusiasts buy a board specifically for freeriding, so we will focus mainly on choosing a snowboard for freeriding. Have you ever wondered how snowboards are different?

What is the difference between snowboarding boards

First of all, decide what you will do on the board: ride far in the mountains, jump or fly into corners at speed. If you chose all at once, then the freeride board is your ideal. If you love speed, then a narrow freecarva snowboard is your choice. If you love jumping, then the freestyle board is your choice.

No matter how you choose a snowboard, everyone still chooses a freeride board, such boards are more versatile and are much cheaper. Now I will briefly tell you about the differences between snowboards.

The difference between freestyle boards:

• For freestyle, the board is very light in weight,
• The snowboard bends easily
• The board is symmetrical at both ends, this allows you to ride front and back, slightly shorter than a freeride board
• Denoted by FS

The difference between a freeride board:

• Freeride board is longer than freestyle board
• The entire center of gravity for such a board is slightly from the back.
• Medium soft or hard board
• The underfoot area is stiffer than the front and back
• Indicated by the symbol FR

The difference between a carving board

• The shape of the board is narrow and long
• The bindings on the board are at an acute angle
• The tail of the board is cut off for high speed control
• Hard board
• The shape of the board is rigid
• Indicated by FC

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What to look for when choosing a snowboard

For a beginner, choosing a snowboard will not be a huge problem, because he should not bother with various terms and listen to specialists in stores who have never stood on a board, but sell goods like a professional athlete.

But there are still a number of criteria for choosing a board for a beginner snowboarder that you should pay attention to when buying a snowboard.

• Choosing a board size according to your height
• Choosing a good mount
• Choosing the optimal softness or hardness of the board
• Choosing boots by foot size
• Equipment selection

That's all the criteria that you should look at when choosing a snowboard in a store, do not listen to any smart guys on forums or thematic sites who advise you to take a closer look at this:

• how many layers does the board have,
• check the rigidity of the snowboard using special electronic devices,
• carry a rag along the edges, if it breaks, then the board is of high quality
• and other nonsense.

Now I will tell you more about all the criteria for choosing a snowboard. First of all, we will consider the choice of a board for a person's height, it is on this parameter that all manufacturers pay great attention.

How to choose a snowboard for a person's height

The height of a person affects the comfort of riding, so when choosing a snowboard in a store, choose your size more accurately. If the size of the board is incorrectly selected, it will be difficult for you to control the snowboard, it is difficult to keep balance, it is difficult to learn to ride, so take the parameters of choosing a board very seriously.

Choosing a snowboard for stiffness

The stiffer the board, the easier it is to pick up acceleration and take turns. Usually, all budget boards that are selected for growth already have their own rigidity proportional to the size. For more advanced riders, snowboard boards are made in different stiffnesses, such boards belong to a higher price range.

The hardest board is used by snowboarders in carving (downhill), the softest board is used for freestyle and jumping. If you have already decided what rigidity you need, then go ahead to the store.

How to choose snowboard bindings

When choosing bindings for a snowboard, do not hammer your head, there are several types of bindings, which differ only in how it is easier and faster for you to get on the board and fasten your boots in a certain situation.

Snap fasteners make it very easy and quick to get on the board, but the snow clogging the fastening openings will not allow you to do this so easily, and over time, the snap mechanism, usually made of plastic parts, makes itself felt constantly detaching itself.

Bindings with soft fabric fasteners and low-quality plastic locks, as well as a highback (back wall of the boot stop) made of thin plastic are also not the right choice for an experienced freerider.

So, we forget about all the fasteners and take only those in which the laces themselves are made of soft plastic, metal fasteners, and the back wall (highback) is made of thick plastic with a soft insert. The board itself is made of metal only. Only these bindings will keep your leg in check and will last longer with active use than the other types of snowboard fasteners mentioned.

How to choose snowboard boots

You should choose boots only when you have chosen a board, put bindings on it. When choosing boots, it is important that they:

• kept in the mounts like a glove, in no way did not walk.
• The toes in the boot should not rest, but should not fall short of the wall.
• The heel should come off the sole
• A well-shrunk boot on your foot should not squeeze your calf and should fit easily around your calf.

When putting on your boots, do not overtighten the bindings on the calf muscle, the leg should be “calm” and not overtightened. With a long descent in a tied boot, the leg gets very tired and you lose control of the road at high speed.

How to choose equipment for a snowboarder

Believe me, without a helmet, even the most ordinary descent can turn into an injury incompatible with life. How to choose a snowboarder helmet? When checked, the helmet should sit on your head like a glove without deviations.

Inside the helmet there should be a small soft cushion to cushion the impact, the body of the helmet should be made of hard plastic that can withstand a huge load upon impact, thin plastic instantly bursts on hard or artificial snow.

Gloves for a snowboarder must be chosen from a non-soiling material so that later soaked hands from melting snow do not freeze in the cold when descending. The glove should have a thick pad on the palm that protects the palm from damage.

All other elements of the snowboarder's equipment are at your discretion, for example, in 10 years of riding on the board, I have never used equipment, but when I hit my head, I thought about buying a helmet a couple of times.

And another tip, see that the edges (sharp edges of the board) are always sharp, maneuverability at speed and your health depend on it; when buying glasses, make sure that the glasses do not distort reality.For those who have not yet chosen a board for themselves, I advise you to choose it from Planet Sport, here the prices are inexpensive and you can buy everything you need for equipment.

I think that the question of how to choose a snowboard has been resolved, I wish you excellent trails and a good mood when descending from the mountains, subscribe to new articles from travel-picture.ru