Winter Fun

When you’re looking to buy a new snowboard there may be certain things that you will be looking for that will meet your basic criteria. Naturally, if you are planning on doing predominantly all-mountain boarding you are going to want an all-mountain snowboard. Similarly if you are a park junkie and you want a snowboard that is more suitable for freestyle snowboarding you will be after a board that is more suited to this discipline.

Once you have worked out what style of snowboard you’re after it may then come down to a decision between different brands of snowboard. This could be a matter of loyalty, pressure form the media or simply a matter of whose graphics appeals to you more. For others there may be more subtle differences that are very important such as the flex in the board, the weight of the board or the materials with which the snowboard has been manufactured.

One of the finest of the snowboard companies that can be considered one of the lesser known brands is Palmer Snowboards. This is a company that manufactures only a small range of boards at any one time but the boards that come out of the factory are meticulously turned out and are filled with special features. Many of these features will be lost on the average snowboard customer, but other companies have taken not e and have adjusted their own designs to make use of the features of the Palmer boards.

Such is the standing of this company that you may look carefully to see if there are any Palmer snowboards for sale in the store. Compare these boards against those of some of the bigger names and you will see that there are some technological innovations built into their boards that are completely missing from boards of a similar price range.

This isn’t to say that other snowboard company’s boards are not up to standard. They most certainly are, but you can be comfortable in any snowboard bought for the Palmer range.

There are some snowboard companies that like to push the “we are a cool company” line, trying to take advantage of the fact that certain boards are perceived to be more cool than others. This may come down to the design of the graphics on the board which appeals to a certain section of the market.

This is not the case for the Palmer Snowboard Company which has made an impressive name for itself as an innovator in the snowboard industry. The word is well and truly passed around to those in the know that Palmer snowboards epitomise quality. Although the company specialises in all-mountain snowboards you can also be assured of quality freestyle snowboards too.

Part of the reason the Palmer boards are so popular are the bases that provide tremendous speed and great edge hold with smooth sidecuts. The snowboards are also extremely durable despite the fact that they are lightweight in construction. You can put that down to the revolutionary Nomex honeycomb core.

One of the indications that Palmer is more focused on the performance of their boards rather than the way out look to get them sales is to simply take a look at the boards themselves. There is nothing flashy in the way the snowboards are presented. Muted colors with the brand logo sitting squarely in the centre of the deck is about as showy as it gets.

Palmer snowboards are the all-mountain snowboards that the serious snowboard rider will move heaven and earth to get hold of. They’re made to go fast and they’re made to withstand the rigors of the inevitable heavy knocks that come from going fast.

The bottom line is that you will not be disappointed with a Palmer all-mountain snowboard. Or at least, it’s very unlikely because Palmer has one of the lowest return rates of any brand of snowboard.

In many of the catalog descriptions that you read when explaining bits about a snowboard such as a Rome snowboard, is the sidecut of the board. It all depends on what the snowboard was calculated to be used for and how maneuverable it needs to be.

The sidecut of a snowboard refers to the size of the curve in the contact edge of a board. The depth it is measured by is the radius of a loop in meters should the arc in the side of the snowboard be extended. This radius describes the turning circle that the board is capable of making if it follows the curve of the boards arc. The distinction concerning the nose and the tail width compared to the waist width of the board is an added way of specifying the board’s dimension.

As stated earlier, the discrepancy that the size of the sidecut makes from one board to the next is in the radius of the turn that the board is capable of achieving. If the radius is tighter the board will be capable of a tighter turn and this will accelerate the board’s turning reaction in the snow. However a wider sidecut|One that is wider} will give the board a wider turn.

It will then depend upon the style of snowboarding you want to do. If you want to go pipe riding or execute tricks you will need a snowboard with a shallow sidecut. Somebody who wants to go mountain riding will be more inclined to choose a board with a deep elliptical sidecut to give them more steadiness at the higher speeds they are probably going to be going.

Different snowboard manufacturers set their boards up in a different way and go after various designs. You will feel more comfortable with some than others and so you will need to look around to be in a position to buy the board that performs best for your body type and weight.

There are a lot of factors to think about when buying a snowboard and finding the type of board that is right for you is a choice that could take some time.