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Snowboards like skis are increasingly specialized for intended use--if this is your first season snowboarding then a general use snowboard probably makes more sense.  Renting a variety of equipment provides a "hands-on" feel for the type of snowboard that fits your use and style best. Go to Tips and Techniques: Beginning Snow Boarder Tips for a discussion of how to get started in snow boarding.

Bottom Line: Carefully examine how you will use your equipment throughout the year and select a snowboard, boots and bindings that match your riding style and primary use. Other snowboard equipment you might be interested in reviewing:
 

Arbor Mystic Snowboard

The Arbor Mystic Snowboard possesses supernatural powers in the park and pipe. A carbon fiber strut down the middle of the board helps you boost higher without compromising high-speed control.


Atomic Snowboards Alibi Snowboard

The Atomic Alibi Snowboards incredible all-mountain freestyle performance earned it Transworld Snowboardings Good Wood award more times than any other snowboard.


Atomic Snowboards Hatchet Snowboard

Atomic built the Hatchet Freeride Snowboard so well that their pros ride it off-the-shelf for launching backcountry booters, park hits, and rails.


Burton Andy Warhol Custom Snowboard

The Burton Andy Warhol Custom Snowboard gives you the versatility to take your freestyle riding to every corner of the mountain. Plus, Andys unique artwork gives it standout style.


Burton Blunt Snowboard

Burton built the Blunt Snowboard as tough as a tank and gave it a soft, buttery flex to help you throw down with style on every rail or box you encounter.


Burton Custom ICS Snowboard

Just when you thought the Custom Snowboard couldnt get any better, Burton introduces a late-season addition to its linethe Custom ICS Snowboard.


Burton Custom Snowboard

Mads Jonsson, Heikki Sorsa, Mason Auirre, and Luke Mitrani worked with Burton to bring you the new Custom Snowboard. A speedy base, burly sidewalls, and ber-pop make this legendary freestyle board ... more info.


Burton Jeremy Snowboard

From the rails of Salt Lake to the cold-smoke powder of the Wasatch backcountry, Jeremy Jones demands the most out of his boards. Thats why he worked hand-in-hand with Burton to create the ... more info.


Burton The White Collection Snowboard

The Burton White Collection Snowboard gives Shaun the control and performance needed to bring his skate-influenced style to the slopes, and it can do the same for you.


Capita Indoor Survival Snowboard

Dont let cabin fever drag you down. Hop on the Capita Indoor Survival Snowboard and go get some fresh air. This twintip deck gives intermediate freestyle snowboarders a soft and forgiving flex to ... more info.


Flow Quantum Freestyle Snowboard

The Quantum Freestyle is Flow team rider Scotty Lagos personalized park and pipe war hammer.


Flow The Team Freestyle Snowboard

The Team Freestyle Snowboard combines all of Flows top technology to create the park and pipe ride favored by team rider Antti Autti.


Forum Destroyer Snowboard

The Forum Destroyer Snowboard isnt one of those noodle-soft rides that can take on a rail and nothing else. This responsive, twintip board rips any freestyle terrain on the mountain.


Forum Grudge Freestyle Snowboard

With Forums highest-end wood core, the Grudge Snowboard is super strong yet lightweightan ideal board for getting aggressive in the park and pipe and on the mountain.


Gnu Danny Kass Vertigo Magnetraction Snowboard

When Danny Kass needs a solid board to dominate a superpipe competition, he saddles up the Vertigo Magnetraction Snowboard.


K2 Anagram Freestyle Snowboard

The K2 Anagram Snowboard gives beginning to advanced riders tons of freestyle performancewithout taking a heavy toll on their bank account.


K2 Believer Snowboard

The team-driven K2 Believer Snowboard puts that elusive 900 within your grasp. K2 team riders Bryan Fox and Louie Fountain tricked out the Believer with all of K2s high-tech features to help you spin ... more info.


K2 Darkstar Snowboard

The K2 Darkstar Snowboard seems suited for stand-up comedy, or better yet, improv. Unfortunately, this board is too busy slaying tables, destroying rails, and wreaking all-around havoc in the park to ... more info.


K2 Jibpan Snowboard

The Jibpan Snowboard completes K2s line of freestyle snowboards. This versatile board is as comfortable on backcountry booters as it is buttering boxes in the park.


Lib Technologies Mad Lib Tech D.I.Y. Series Snowboard

Lib Tech designed the Mad Lib D.I.Y. Snowboard for words nerds with a crazy craving for the good stufffreestyle riding. The D.I.Y. features a Morning Wood core with fiberglass backbone for increased ... more info.


Lib Technologies Phoenix Series Snowboard

Blaze onto the scene with the Lib Tech Phoenix Snowboard, Jamie Lynns signature freestyle design featuring his own art.


Lib Technologies Total Ripper Series Magnetraction Snowboard

The Lib Tech Total Ripper Series Magnetraction Snowboards blend of freestyle performance and durability impressed Transworld Snowboarding enough to earn the Good Wood Award.


Lib Technologies Total Ripper Series Snowboard

Lib Tech built the Total Ripper Series Snowboard with the speed, pop, handling, and durability to take on any terrain park sesh.


Lib Technologies Travis Magnetraction Snowboard

Thanks to wave-shaped Magnetraction edges, the Lib Tech Travis Rice Snowboard provides seven points of contact for supreme control in the iciest parks and pipes.


Lib Technologies Youth in Asia Series Snowboard

Lib Tech created the burly, buttery Youth in Asia Series Snowboard for park and street addicts who prefer grinding rails and nose-sliding ledges to prancing around in cuddly, fluffy snow.


Never Summer Evo Snowboard

Never Summer designed the Evo Snowboard for advanced freestyle riders who spend most of their days in the park and pipe. Powerful pop, a forgiving flex, and high-speed stability define this twintip ... more info.


Never Summer Pandora Snowboard

An ultra-snappy flex, super light weight, and surprising high-speed stability make the Never Summer Pandora Snowboard strike fear into the hearts of pipe and park competition around the world.


Never Summer SL Snowboard

The Never Summer SL Snowboard gives intermediate to advanced riders the ability to attack the terrain park, groomers, and backcountry steeps with one board.


Nitro Andreas Wiig Snowboard

A twin-directional shape and long tip and tail profile give the Nitro Andreas Wiig Snowboard the versatility to take on anything from rails to terrain parks to backcountry booters.


Nitro Eero Tails Down Freestyle Snowboard

The Nitro Eero Tails Down Freestyle Snowboard incorporates a tri-progressive sidecut for rock solid stability and power in the park.


Nitro MFM Freestyle Snowboard

Nitro built the MFM Freestyle Snowboard for aggressive riders who see the mountain as one massive terrain park.


Nitro Misfit Freestyle Snowboard

The true twintip Nitro Misfit Freestyle Snowboard is ready to rock-n-roll anywhere on the mountain. The PowerLite poplar core makes for a snappy, playful ride whether youre on the steeps or shredding ... more info.


O-matic Wig-Out Snowboard

Wah-PISH! Thats the sound of Transworld slapping this years Good Wood Award on the O-Matic Wig Out Snowboard.


Option Snowboards Dufficy Snowboard

Option asked pro rider Chris Dufficy for the specs on his dream shred. The result is the progressive, skate-inspired, and powerful, stable ride of the Dufficy Snowboard for advanced to expert riders.


Option Snowboards Mirror Snowboard

Ride the Option Mirror Snowboard when you cant play on pavement. With a skateboard-like ride, this dope-looking board was made for freestyle junkies.


Option Snowboards Motive Snowboard

Prepare an alibi before you leave your footprints on the Option Motive Snowboard. This flexy freestyle deck has destruction on its mindand streets, parks, and backcountry booters are all potential ... more info.


Palmer Flash Twin Snowboard

Palmer tuned up the Flash Twin Snowboard, so you can take this freestyle deck from the box straight to the terrain parkalthough we recommend throwing on some bindings first.


Ride DH Snowboard

Youll find the Ride DH Snowboard strapped to the feet of Nico Droz while hes 15 feet above the lip in the pipe, stomping backcountry booters, and sliding rails.


Ride Society Snowboard

Find the biggest jump on the mountain and point itthe Ride Society Snowboard will help you stomp it.


Rome Agent Snowboard

The Rome Agent Snowboard has that buttery feel you crave for park kickers and rails. A hand-painted topsheet on this snowboard gives you a one-of-a-kind shred machine.


Rome Graft Snowboard

The Rome Graft Snowboard has a soft torsional flex to let you jib every object in the park, and a slightly stiffened tip and tail keep you boosting huge on the kickers.


Salomon Prospect LTD Snowboard

With graphics by skate artist Fernando Elvira, the Salomon Prospect LTD Snowboard looks and rides like a work of art.


Salomon Prospect Snowboard

Ride the Salomon Prospect Snowboard and throw down in the park, pipe, and all over the Mountain.


Stepchild Snowboards Corporate Snowboard

You have a choice. You can either get an overpriced board that youre going to destroy on jibs, or you can save money for your season pass by buying the Stepchild Corporate Snowboard.


Stepchild Snowboards Simon Chamberlain Snowboard

If youve ever watched a Simon Chamberlain video segment and thought to yourself, holy crap, that guy is a maniac on the rails, I wish I rode like that, then you need his pro-model Stepchild Snowboard.


Unity Pride Snowboard

The Unity Pride Snowboards slightly directional flex and responsive carbon-wrapped wood core give you the versatility to huck an out-of-bounds cornice and slay the park on back-to-back runs.

  




  
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