Want to know some snowboarding styles?Snowboarding styles you want to specialize in. Since its establishment as a winter sport in 1998, snowboarding has developed into different styles, and each has its own set of special equipment and techniques. Although each style of snowboarding is unique, you really can’t tell what their differences are, unless, of course, if you are already a snowboarding pro. The common snowboarding styles today are the freestyle, free ride, and free carve or free race. Free RideThis is easily the most common and accessible snowboarding style. Simply put, it means riding down any terrain – from a bunny slope to a 60-degree slope. While “free riding,” a snowboarder may incorporate jib tricks and/or aerial tricks borrowed from other snowboarding styles. Equipment for free ride usually includes soft boots and snowboard that is longer and has a stiffer overall flex. This type of snowboard is ideal for breezing through any terrain - from rock hard ice to powdery snow terrain. Majority of snowboarders compete for this snowboarding style. FreestyleThis snowboarding style mingles the rider with man-made snowboarding installations like boxes, jumps, rails, handrails, quarter pipes, half pipes, and a host of other features. Snowboarders are expected to use the installed features to perform jibs or aerial tricks. Freestyle snowboarders use soft boots with a twin-tipped snowboard. The binding stance most commonly used in freestyle is the duck foot. The trailing foot of the duck foot has a negative arc degree. Jibbing freestyle snowboarders use shorter snowboards. Free Carve or Free RaceAlthough not as popular as freestyle or freeride, this style of snowboarding is arguably the most challenging. Free carve snowboarding takes places place on hard packs or groomed runs. The end-all and be-all of free carve is the so-called ultimate free carve turn. There’s little acrobatics in free carve. You usually would have to wear hard boots on a stiff and narrow snowboard so it’s easier to turn. |
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