[hop_engelberg]

If it's your first real board, get something more traditional like a Process instead of something like Bataleon. If you go enough and find yourself wanting to branch out to something new you can always pick up another board, buy new bindings for your main board, then put your old bindings on the alternative board. Twin camber medium stiffness is about as tried and true as you can possible have a snowboard be. I am a big fan of progressing on true twin camber boards because if you can ride that well, you can ride anything. When you start going with different camber profiles and stuff they ride differently and you might end up with bad habits from doing things like getting a 3BT board that requires a different technique to get on edge.

Some tech is very useful, some is a gimmick just to change riding. But if you want to progress the best thing you can do on groomers and light park riding, is have a medium stiffness true twin camber board.

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