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120 may/jun 2012

BOARDS • SKATE • TESTS • REVIEWS • FASHION STICKING IT TO THE SNOW In cool snow news, the folks at Kahuna are bringing paddling to the snow with their new Kahuna Snow Stick. It’s designed to help you get solid speed on completely flat terrain and paddle through poor snow conditions. The crazy-looking head - shown left - is made of of ballistic polycarbonate which is meant to perform to -45°C. Contact the friendly folk at Street SUP Australia for info on 0466 264 232. www.streetsup.com.au Facebook.com/StreetSUP Brand new ideas DEMYSTIFYING SNOWBOARD DESIGN WORDS: JARYD HESLOP OF FUTURE SPORT/ARBOR SNOWBOARDS A walk through the boards at your local snowboard shop will show you very quickly that rocker is what is happening in snowboarding. There are almost as many types of rocker as there are snowboards, so the key to understanding the differences and the pros and cons of the way your board is bent is to break it down. Simply put, there are four different profiles that most boards will fall into. ROCKER Laying flat on the floor the lowest point of the board will be in the middle and will progressively rise through to the contact points. The board becomes very forgiving since the contact points are raised off the snow and will usually be softer because of the way the board is bent. Being more forgiving does make the ride “loose” because the effective edge of the board is shortened. CAMBER For those who still like to lay trenches in the snow and carve. Camber will give you a lot of response out of the core but doesn’t offer the same level of forgiveness/looseness as a Rocker board. Camber is still offered in the line of all good snowboard companies. FLAT The board is completely flat most of the way through and is usually paired with a small amount of rocker to raise the contact points a little. This gives back some of the response in the flex of the core that you loose in a full Rocker board and also lengthens the effective edge. The board isn’t as forgiving as a full rocker and rides more like a standard camber board. DUAL CAMBER This is the combination of rocker and camber in a board. The rocker gives you the forgiveness and looseness but the camber gives you response and pop out of the core. Most boards do this by having rocker between your feet and camber outside. PROFILING Something to keep in mind with all rocker boards is edge profiling. This is where things can get real technical. When you are shortening a boards’s effective edge, having the edges poke out gives back (and can even enhance) the edge grip that can be lost in a rocker board. may/jun 2012 121

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