Any snowboarder worth his salt knows that understanding what snowboard style they have can really influence their progression and snowboarding capabilities.

For beginners, there are fundamentals that need to be first established, such as balance, an affinity with their equipment and an understanding of the slopes.

As you progress though, either intentionally or unknowingly, you’ll start to establish a preference for a snowboard style.

The sort of snowboarding style you decide to undertake can vary substantially. Your style specifies what kind of rider you are, what sort of equipment you’re going to buy, and where you may want to strut your things.

Naturally, you do not need to be restricted to one method – you might be a combination of a few similar styles, or possibly you even like vastly different styles of riding.

Regardless, you’ll fit into at least one of the listed below snowboard styles.

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Which Snowboard Style Are you?

Free-riders

These people just want to be out on the mountain, doing exactly what they please.

There’s little regulation in this style of riding – it’s all about creating your very own runs, discovering your own style down the slope, and essentially taking it as it comes.

It’s about checking out, it’s about finding brand-new areas of the backcountry.

This type of riding needs, unsurprisingly, a free-ride board. These boards are normally pretty steady, allowing you to reach some high speeds without toppling off the board.

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Freestylers

The above free-riders style doesn’t interest these guys.

If they were in a snowboarding game, you ‘d be scoring optimum points as you search constantly for techniques, dives, and rails.

The majority of your time is invested in the park and seldom do you venture out to most parts of the mountain.

Obviously, this snowboard style needs different equipment. Freestyle snowboards are much shorter, lighter, and more flexible – makes sense.

You have to be agile on these boards, able to weave as quickly as possible, and a long, clunky board is only going to hinder that capability.

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All-mountaineers

They typically have more in common with free-riders than freestylers, investing more time boarding downhill than in the park, however, they still enjoy a range of different types of routes.

Undoubtedly, the type of board these snowboarders use needs to be pretty flexible,

able to carry out a number of different snowboard styles on various types of surface,

and the specifics of the board can depend on what these people spend many of their time doing.

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Freestyle mountaineers

The name pretty much sums up this snowboard style.

You like hitting up the backcountry, but you use anything and everything as a playground for you. Fallen tree’s as rails, rocks as snowboard jumps, and massive drops as a way to free fall.

You create the park as you shred the mountain. The uncertainty of what’s behind the next corner ads to the enjoyment of the run.

Like for all-mountaineers, the type of snowboard freestyle mountaineers selects depends on exactly what aspect of snowboarding, and what they decide to do the most.

Will it be straight shredding or getting air?

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The more you snowboard the more defined your style will be.

As mentioned before you can shift and change between styles but it is good to establish a concrete style for yourself so that you can get the equipment which best works with that style.

By doing this you can really enhance your snowboarding experience

Or if you just want to be free to do whatever you want whenever you want, check out some big snowboarding brands as they are constantly innovating and creating boards and bindings that transcend the different snowboard styles.

Who knows, maybe in the near future there will be a board that works well in all styles.

Till then let me know what Snowboard style you are in the comments below. Also, as usual, make sure to share this page on Facebook and Twitter.

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