Where is snowboard front

Your dominant foot in snowboarding is typically your back foot, as that is what provides you with steering and control. Your front foot provides balance and direction, so typically, this will be your less dominant foot. Which foot do you tend to lead with?

Which foot do you kick a soccer ball with? Since we have determined which foot you will be leading with, we can now move on to stance width. The stance width refers to how far apart your feet will be from each other.

This width will be critical to the amount of control you will have over your board. Most snowboards come equipped with a reference stance. This is the width that the board's technical aspects are built around. Riding at reference stance is not critical, as that may not be the perfect fit for you.

A great starting width is slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. If you are aware of your riding style, then you may go wider, or narrower, based on riding style. More technical riders and park riders tend to prefer a wider width to help with balance on jumps and jibs, and increased stability when bombing the steeps at high speeds.

Those who enjoy a more surf-like style, or hard carving will prefer a slightly narrower stance to help engage the edges and have quick transitions between them. For those folks whose biological sex is female, you likely have a harsher Q angle than those whose biological sex is male. A Q angle is the quadricep angle. This is the angle at which the quadricep meets the knee cap in comparison to the line formed by the ligament attaching to the kneecap and shin Gorman. Why does this matter?

Females tend to have a Q angle between degrees, whereas males between degrees. This difference in Q angles is crucial in deciding what width to use. Typically, people will choose a stance that reflects their width while walking, but the harsher Q angle you have, the wider you will want your stance to help engage the inner thighs and take the strain off of the big toe section of your foot.

In order to ensure your stand width stays consistent, you can measure the distance from the center of each binding. That distance, in inches or centimeters, will be your stance width. Write it down, and keep it somewhere safe so you can always refer back to it before mounting a new pair of bindings, or swapping boards! If you imagine your board standing up in a shop, there will be some text on it, normally in the middle of the board that you can read while it is standing up.

This means that the top of the board is the nose. If you are looking to find snowboards that are on sale, search on this page. Your email address will not be published. How to find the nose of your snowboard. There are 3 main types of board shapes, which are: Twin Directional Directional Twin Twin shaped snowboards Twin shaped snowboards are named twin because they have the exact same shape on the nose and the tail. Inspect both ends of the board.

Locate the end that seems to curve up higher, this is the front or nose of the board. Look closely at each end of the board if you still can't tell which end is the nose. Some boards such as alpine-style snowboards have a front end that is more pointed at the tip.

Maxwell Payne has been a freelance writer since His work has appeared in various print and online publications.