The choice of snowboards in the modern market is simply huge. If you get up on the board for the first time, it is necessary to know several moments to which it is worth paying attention when choosing of "apparatus".
Instruction
1. All boards are divided into 3 types depending on the skating style. Freestyle - driving or rather jumps in the park (springboards, the handrail, half-pipe). Snowboard type - "twin tip" - the identical heel and the sock, it is easy to ride back to front (the "back" leg forward). Free riding out of the track, on "pukhlyak" - fresh snow. The snowboard type - "дирекшнл" - the sock is wider and longer than the heel. The universal snowboard "freestyle/freeride" best of all is suitable for the beginner. Such board rather soft, wide and moderately heavy, "twin tip". She kind of "waits" for you, "forgives" mistakes, unlike the rigid, narrow and easy "apparatuses" intended for aggressive driving.
2. Length of the snowboard is defined by growth and weight of the katalshchik. Than you it is higher or heavier, your board has to be that more long. The easiest way to determine suitable size at the normal ratio weight/growth - the board has to be to the chin. One more option - from the growth to take away 20 cm, it also will be the approximate length of your board. It is easy to operate the long board only at big speeds on fresh snow therefore it will be difficult for beginner to cope with it. In general, each producer on each board writes optimum "dispersion" of weight, for example, of 45-55 kg. Choose the board where your weight will be in the middle of the specified weight borders. Besides, if you are attracted by driving in the park, take the short board "twin tip" if you are going to plow not rolled snow open spaces - long "дирекшнл".
3. Control of management of it in many respects depends on snowboard width. Here it is necessary to rely on the size of boots. Ideally boots have to a little (no more, than on 1 cm) to go beyond edges of the board. If the board is wider than the boot, it will be more difficult "to turn" it - to carry out turns. If boots are much wider than the board, they will cling to snow, and driving will turn into torture.
4. At last, price policy. Here everything is simple. Everything that costs more than 300 dollars - not for beginners. Besides it isn't necessary to buy cheapest "apparatus". You learn to ride much earlier, than during the season, and the simplest boards (foam, without wooden core) slow down development, don't allow to reach the high skating level. The best price is defined in 150-250 dollars. There is still such moment as the snowboard design - "cap" (cover) and "sandwich" (layers). "Sandwiches" are stronger, is more sympathetic and give in to repair unlike "caps". But here the nuances - most expensive "caps" don't concede quality to "sandwiches", and the board with the crack after repair all the same won't go as new. Generally, if you look for economic option - stop on "cap" if to you the price/quality is relevant the ratio - take cheapest "sandwich".