Rocker-based vs. swallowtail - which is better in pow?

Various topics, technical questions, announcements, events, resorts, ...

Moderators: fivat, rilliet, Arnaud, nils

User avatar
Schneewurm
Rank 5
Rank 5
Posts: 593
Joined: Wednesday 5 April 2006, 22:54
Location: EU-freies Eldorado in mitten der EU

Post by Schneewurm » Thursday 12 November 2009, 12:13

The actual white Burton Fish coming with the S-Rocker-line looks realy great and noble.
This modell which I saw on same shelf like a Nitro Powder (Swallowtail) on a store last Saturday, can be a board of desire for tree-runs.

In fact, the Burton-boy on the stores told me, Burton will turn for 2010/2011 back to cambered boards, but with integrated rocker-lines.

There are now realy a lot different Rockers-shapes on stores. The lines are verry different to others!
Rocker-based boards are for general freestyle and for some-times powder-snowboarding a good choice. Even at higher speed shorter boards with rocker wouln't stick in into snow like cambered boards do. At higher speed on slopes, like for super-pipe or big-air, cambered boards are prefered.
Gliding on Snowboards,
like Pogo, Kessler, Virus, Hot, Nidecker and others,
from 151 up to 183 cm and 14 to 27.4 cm width,
covering any kind of shapes with
any kind of boots and bindings.

Locked