So I'm from Michigan, going to college in Steamboat, CO. In Michigan, park is all there is to do, so I have a Ride Crook. Steamboat gets dumped on, so I'm looking forward to mad pow, brah. I know I should invest in a powder board, but I just can't spend that kind of money. I figure if I set my stance all the way back, the board should handle powder better. But my question is, since the sidecut, the flex and everything about the board is twin, how much will setting the stance back mess with how the board rides?
Nope....don't do that or you'll never do plan A and ride the park board in the pow. Stay away from riding a pow board in the pow or you'll find yourself pawning your roommates things trying to buy one
Just make sure you set it back or you'll find yourself exhausted after a couple of hours.
I've ridden my park board (rossi jibsaw) in powder a few times, and while it isn't close to my Dupraz in terms of ease and float, I still have a ton of fun. In other words, I would still prefer to ride the park board in powder than in regular groomer conditions. It is just much more physically demanding.
But consider buying a park board too.. get a used one off of CL.
You should really get a new board. The board that worked well in MI will not be the board that is ideally suited to CO. In addition to park, you will have a whole new world of fun terrain to ride.
Some folks prefer to have a quiver of boards, but personally I like do everything boards. A decent RCR or RCR all mountain freestyle board will work pretty well everywhere.
My shortlist of boards would include in no particular order NS Type 2, Nitro Team Gullwing, Lago Double Barrel, Burton Process Off Axis, Salomon Assassin, Yes Greats, DC Mega, Capita DOA, Endeavor Live, Rome Mod Rocker and a grip of other sticks like that.
All resorts have a demo fleet of different boards that aren't the standard rentals. If you get a deep day, go rent a demo powder board for a day so you can get the feel of float.
Yeah if it were me I would just get something that's good at everything and floating. Something like a Niche Aether, Ride Burnout, Arbor Coda, or a Rome Mod Rocker.
I've recently got myself a new board, so now start to understand what it meant by different boards are designed for different purposes. We don't have pow days here, well, hardly ever, normally just ice or slush, so can't comment on that. But my all mountain freestyle board certainly don't work as well on an icy day compared to my new board which is designed for it.
But if you can't afford it, then just stick with what you have and try out as many stance options as you can until it feels about right. After all, we're not athletes, equipments don't mean a world to us. A good snowboarder could work magic on any board (although they may prefer a better one lol~~), where a beginner couldn't do much despite how good the board they're riding. Besides, using a board that's not designed for the situation you need, might just be a good challenge to improve your skills to compensate the lack of performance from equipments.
I guess all I am saying is work around with what you've got or what you can get and enjoy.
If you can manage, use your buddy's board which is better suited for pow, or cheap 2nd hand board for that purposes.
If not, work around with your current board, unless if it's too tiny for you, which just sink into the thick powder whenever you stand on it, else, it'll manage.
One day on a pow deck in real pow....you'll never look back and you'll never miss the money. Demo, get something used, borrow, whatever but do yourself a favor and make the leap. You could be fine on what you have, I used to ride a full rocker GNU Pickle in pow when I was still new and green and not even riding the good terrain yet. I never knew what I was missing, but once you do you'll wished you had gotten that dedicated deck sooner.
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YEP! I started shredding again last season... I only have 1 board right now, but I have 4 pairs of bindings, 2 jackets/pants, 2 goggles, 2 gloves... nothing to do on the off season except buy more snow gear :crying:
seriously, wtf am I going to do with 4 pairs of bindings with 1 board?
Checkout Conan O'Brien on Grinder. Too funny. :wink:
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