I am interested in buying & riding a swallowtail board for some deep pow "surfing feeling"
Any experience on riding/boards.....can i use conventional soft snowboard boots & bindings or do they require hard boots?
How do they ride in pow/crust/spring?
Any feedback is appreciated.
swallowtail snowboard....soft or hard boots
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depends!
on what board model you will ride and in what conditions of snow and size of fields!
basically: if you ride wide steep open fields: go for a long ST board and HB are (my opinion) the best for controlling speed.(long is 190cm and up)
If you ride average fields with various steeps and places where its not possible to go full speed, i'd recommend using softboots on a smaller size ST in the 178-185cm range).
I keep riding mine in HB in any conditions because i'm tired of having so many gear up the mountain and having to buy another set of bindings and boots... but i know i will do it someday!
As for riding all conditions of snow, ST do it very well, especially the harder flexed ones that can go through crust without any difficulties, or absorb tracked pow, transformed spring snow etc..
Nils
on what board model you will ride and in what conditions of snow and size of fields!
basically: if you ride wide steep open fields: go for a long ST board and HB are (my opinion) the best for controlling speed.(long is 190cm and up)
If you ride average fields with various steeps and places where its not possible to go full speed, i'd recommend using softboots on a smaller size ST in the 178-185cm range).
I keep riding mine in HB in any conditions because i'm tired of having so many gear up the mountain and having to buy another set of bindings and boots... but i know i will do it someday!
As for riding all conditions of snow, ST do it very well, especially the harder flexed ones that can go through crust without any difficulties, or absorb tracked pow, transformed spring snow etc..
Nils