Square nose - for what purpose?

[domsch]

I just read some news about the last snowboarding and I saw the picture with schoch and his new board. Somehow I thought he just hold it up side down, but obviously it's not.
Does anybody know why this kind of nose is better? It's just ugly for me

Article with other picture: http://www.blick.ch/sport/wintersport/s ... eck-109106

[RicHard]

The reasons that come to my mind are the following:

- longer effective edge in case of same boards length.
- less mass in the tip (better vibrations control).

I think that even "Groove" boards was with the almost "straight" tip.

[Willow 15]

Check out SG's, Kessler, and Oxcess. Maybe not as extreme as Black Pearl but it obviously works. Personally I love the shape, it looks like it means business, and it does as I know because my SG full race 63 is the best alpine board I have ridden so far.

[kailua]

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Check out the older SG's and you will find out, if a long effective Edge make sense

[RicHard]

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Checkt out the older SG's and you will find out, if a long effective Edge make sense

Well... what I think is that a long tip means better chances to "engage" the gate properly during a race.
A "square" tip could "crash" against the pole while a long tip could "drive" the rest of the board along the pole.
That's why a square tip means, to me, a better performance on freecarving and race technique but a performance worse than the one of a "long tipped" board.
Just my opinion.