The Women's Snowboard Buying Guide (supplement)

Is this the best thing ever?! YES. I've been riding for about 7 years and wish I could have seen this about 6 years ago! I went from a Forum Aura to a GNU Bstreet because at the time I thought parks were wonderful and I needed a board for that. Maybe not the best choice for the big picture... Oh well

Anyways I'm from the Midwest and unfortunately, it seems we get more ice than snow on most days. While I know dealing with this just takes practice and bruises, is there something you suggest that better copes with the icier parts of the hill?

OMG, That is an awesome board in the picture. It gives it personality to the board and the rider. I love it. Is there a maker to it?

Wow can't believe I just found this thread... I briefly read through it and the information is amazing. Thanks for the hard work! Will definitely come back and re-read everything when I have more time. This is great, especially since I'm trying to buy a board for a girl and have no clue what to get.

Originally posted by maviles I just came across this post and found it very helpful. Thank you.

Originally posted by TheHeatherMarie Are there any women out there that can give a specific suggestion for a board for a beginner?  My husband is a snowboarding fanatic and I keep telling myself that my first time on a board (which ended in a concussion) shouldn't be my last.  I like your guide but I'd like someone to tell me--hey get *this* board.  Thanks

post this question as a new topic and we'll help you from there.  height, weight, boot size, other preference, etc.

Holy cow what a thread!   

Not buying gear this season (first season - yay!), but this is going to come in super handy as I spend the next year trying to figure out what I want!

excellent article. No mention of women's boards suitable for (club) racing??

thank you very much for this guide. over the past few weeks ive been searching around for some deals on women's gear for a friend. i ended up going with the rossi temptation and rossi bindings. got a pretty good deal too, i think board and bindings together were like 230 or something like that

Thanks heaps, this really helped me pick a board for my girlfriend!

Hey all, I'd welcome any suggestions for a board/binding combo for my gf. She's totaly new to the sport and would like to take it up this winter with me.

She's about 110 pounds, 5foot 3ish.

Thx

Originally posted by bagelzzz Thanks B I have bought about $2200 worth of gear - hence my hi points and they ban me for leaving reviews on female boards I bought from them. They should've banned me from buying female boards and bindings :). I finally found my true love - the custom flying v with squeezebox - a late release with next years technology. I feel like I'm cheating - that's how sweet this board is. Paired up with cartels. Driver x boots and all new clothing - it's 85 degrees out and I can't wait for it to snow!!!

Thanks B
I have bought about $2200 worth of gear - hence my hi points and they ban me for leaving reviews on female boards I bought from them. They should've banned me from buying female boards and bindings :).

I finally found my true love - the custom flying v with squeezebox - a late release with next years technology. I feel like I'm cheating - that's how sweet this board is. Paired up with cartels. Driver x boots and all new clothing - it's 85 degrees out and I can't wait for it to snow!!!

I have ridden close to a hundred boards. 20% being women's. I have a size 10 foot so the width of the board is not effecting the boards I have ridden - if the had, I used elevators. With that being said, women's boards are narrower and have more flex. The narrowness makes it easier to control the board. More flex makes tricks easier to pull off.
With all that being said, I left reviews of female boards. This upset people and they tarted calling me homosexual and mentally challenged Plus all my reviews were spammed and now I can't earn points. I tried explaining the simple physics of the board being narrower makes it perfect for a beginner. But I was bashed and labeled a homosexual

you can find it exactly right here since a sticky pretty much means its stuck in one place :)

This is AMAZING!!!!

thank you, i genuinely appreciate feedback on this thread. I hope the info helps, and remember this just covers the issues pertaining to womens boards. If you want to know a bit more about the more general tech inside a snowboard then check out the other sticky. :)

http://www.trusnow.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40125

(its slightly longer :})

Originally posted by dougfagel Ippo, I will make this a Sticky so that you don't have to Spam Bump this great thread that you have created.

Should sticky his other guide then. 

Such a great thread.  Finally, a guide for women!  

Ippo, I will make this a Sticky so that you don't have to Spam Bump this great thread that you have created.

Great summize Ipp.....if this doesn't help what does!

if you remove the "don't" from that sentence, i hear that almost every day :)

Thanks though for the kind words :) And this is a secret bump because there's no way in hell im letting this drop off the first page. :p

hehe, alas there is no maximum.I could go on for months. I actually put this guide into MSword and realised it was just shy of 10,000 words :)
And as for technique, well I throw out needless paragraphing all the time. In truth i'm a firm believer that a paragraph needs at least three solid points contained by one big point and maybe some form of run on sentence just to throw spanners in the works for the reader, but you try telling the kids that :) WALLOFTEXT!!CritsforOMGwtf!!! So i make some concessions to sanity. But only a few. If i had my way this thing would look like the unnamable by Beckett :p I'll also add a few headings just because i know they're a gigantic tangent (the subheading on flex and comparatively speaking pop to mind), but i cant find a less subtle way of crowbarring them in... whilst at the same time i dont want to leave them out because its nevertheless needs to be mentioned. In a sense then, if i could, i'd muck around with paragraphing because it really lets you know which people are too lazy to follow a sentence or simple thought... but then again if i was a true adherent to this type of grammar subversion id probably do away with all punctuation as well leaving the reader to work out the syntax luckily i did pass english at the second stepactuallynowirealiseitspacingisabitofaconcessiontoyourreaderaswell. :)

Just mucking about :p i know my writing is the biggest barrier to me communicating an idea. So i make some break ups in the text as a means of saying "are you still with me?" rather than the more conventional "is this structurally sound?" :)

thanks dude, ive been editing it on the fly today and took out a stack of tangents (though left some other ones in because a board guide without at least 40 superfluous tangents is no board guide i want to put my name to!). I assume you want me to write triple then? :) I'd like to argue, but i failed english at high school, so i'll take your word for it and not run to my default BRITISH ENGLISH!!! excuse that i give to my korean co-teachers every time they ask me a question :)

Awesome guide. Im really trying to get my sister into snowboarding and if i can get her to try it out and she likes it then im coming back here to help her buy a board!

oh ok, then can l just ask you a simple question cuz l dont want to make a new thread about it

for the ride antic, should l downsize to 151 or stay at 154. l'm like 155lb and 151cm is for up to 150lb my concerns are as the following:

1-only the 156 board bag is cheap right now and l dont usually take off my binding
2-starting to do some park riding