How to Choose a Freestyle Snowboard

Video Transcript

"Ok, so in this section, I'm going to be giving you a generic run through, on how to pick out your snowboard. There's a few different types of snowboards so the one that I'm going to start off with first, is your freestyle snowboard. The main thing about, these snowboards, is they're equal, tip and tail, and they're symmetrical, going down the board. As you can see right here, you can see where the mounting holes are for the binding, there's an equal amount of tail and an equal amount of nose. This makes it so it's easy to ride switch, which is going backwards, and it's going to make it easier for doing tricks, more comfortable going forward and backwards. Along with picking out your snowboard, you want to make sure that you pick out the proper height. A board that's too small, is going to be way too squirrely and not beneficial, for someone who's trying to properly learn, their snowboarding tricks and do certain tricks, do certain jumps, rail tricks, boxes and all that stuff. A board that's too long, is going to be way to hard for somebody to control. They use longer boards for more in the back Country, when you're riding powder and stuff like that, so for a freestyle board, you're definitely going to want a board, that's from right below your shoulders but not any higher than your chin. If it gets too high above that, it's too big, if it's too far down that, it's too small, especially when you're first starting out. You want to pick a proper size snowboard. Make sure you talk to the people, at the shop, because they know all the different functions of all the different snowboards and they can definitely set you up with something that's specific for your height and for your body type and for your skill level. So, this is pretty much a generic freestyle board and like I said before, the main features is it's symmetrical from the nose to the tail, allowing for you to do freestyle tricks, depending on which way you're going, it's not really going to matter because everything is the same, forward and backward."