Super loose on the nose and tail, catch-free tips, floaty on a deep day, buttery in the park on boxes and rails. One strike against this bend is that you have to put in a lot more effort in ollieing. This shape is mainly used on either park boards or full-on powder boards.
Nose and tail presses are effortless with this bend as well. This shape is the easiest one to learn snowboarding with because of said catch free features. Many beginners start with a reverse camber snowboard. Camber Hybrid: This is meshing two types of bends, rocker and camber. This shape offers the stability and pop of camber and all the benifits of rocker.
Never Summer is the company who figured out how to blend these two together and dialed it in right. Super floaty, poppy good times! Snowboarding manufacturers are always coming up with new types — though I think most of the time they just come up with new names for them! This is known as traditional camber because once upon a time pretty much all snowboards were made with this profile.
Basically there is camber under the board which runs from the contact point near the tail where the board makes contact with the snow to the contact point near the nose where the board makes contact with the snow — or said an easier way, camber from tip to tail! This type of camber profile typically provides good for pop for ollies and jumps, improves edge-hold, adds to spring out of a turn and helps with stability at speed.
The trade off? This is typically the most aggressive style of camber — though how aggressive depends on how exaggerated the camber is. This has many names — rocker, reverse camber, anti camber, banana and continuous rocker come to mind.
But essentially it is the opposite of traditional camber. Reverse camber boards were traditionally recommended for beginners because it makes turn initiation easier and you are less likely to catch an edge. These things are still the case. However, it also provides a looser feel, which may not be the easiest for a beginner to control, particularly one-footing it off the lift. And with hybrid profiles around these days, you can get the best of both worlds for a beginner.
The continuous rocker profile has a very playful feel, is great for butters and floats well in powder. It makes it good for landing big air and is good for hitting jibs. It is typically fairly quick from edge to edge so is great for riding through trees and tighter areas and provides decent of edge-hold. The trade off is that, due to having so much contact with the ground, this style will be a slower ride. So if speed is your thing this may not be the way to go. Also for beginners it will be easier to catch an edge than a rocker board but is more stable.
A flat-to-rocker on the other hand is much more common, and is a very popular choice for beginner boards. The flat-to-rocker profiles, as it sounds, has rocker sections before the contact points, helping to make it less catchy and easier to initiate a turn.
Like the name suggests, hybrid profiles are a mix of camber, flat and rocker. There are heaps of different combinations of this employed by snowboard manufacturers. Some examples are shown in the illustrations below. The rocker in the tip and tail are great for turn initiation and float in powder, whilst the camber underfoot adds stability, pop, speed and increased edge-hold.
The length of the camber section, and the rocker sections often varies. And how pronounced the rocker and camber are differs too, depending on the board. Also, you might notice that each year almost every brand has less rocker boards than ever, they are all moving back to the proven camber designs. If you know what type of board you are after, you can search for it on this page , and it will show you all the retailers who have it in stock, and show if any of them have it on sale.
Your email address will not be published. Basically a camber board gives you: Pop Good edge hold Stability at speed While a rocker board is: Easy to learn on Forgiving ride Loose feeling While rocker boards were popular when they came out a few years ago, they lack in a lot of areas. BUT If you want to go fast, go big off jumps, have strong aggressive turns and lots of pop, get a camber board.
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