question for snowboarders

[Edge17]

i'm just getting into the sport, so i'm a beginner. i'm looking at buying a used board and bindings for $170. The board is a 151cm Never Summer board, and the bindings are Technine. According to the guy i'm buying it from said it's a $600 setup from 3 years ago, he selling it because he doesn't have time to go boarding anymore.

Anyways, does anyone have any comments? How are Never Summer boards and Technine bindings? Just curious what people have to say about these brands.

edge

 

[Mo0o]

Have you gone snowboarding before? Might be smart to rent a set at your local ski place to try it out before buying your own gear.

 

[chrisms]

Check out prices for Never Summer boards. There is also a site with a bunch of reviews for snowboard equiptment

 

[Edge17]

yea, i've been boarding a few times before. the cost of rental everytime is starting to hurt.

 

[Edge17]

do you know what that site is..?

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Edge17
do you know what that site is..?

http://search.ebay.com/never-summer-snowboard_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: Edge17
do you know what that site is..?

snowboardreview.com or something.. im too lazy to google it for you

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Edge17
yea, i've been boarding a few times before. the cost of rental everytime is starting to hurt.

How many times a season do you go?

 

[Kalmah]

Different boards work for different people from my experience.

I havn't snowboarded in a while, but anything longer than 147 length and they start getting more diffficult to manuver for me. I'm quite short though. Get something where both ends are rounded off. A friend of mine bought one where the ends where rounded, but had a little bit of a strange curve (similar to skateboard) where it looked like it dipped down a little before dipping back up.. and the ends had a flat cutoff (partually rounded).. I couldn't ride that thing. But it was a very expensive board.

My advice would be to try some out first. Figure out what suits you the best. I started out on one of those decent wal-mart boards. The bindings sucked majorly. But it was exremely easy to manuver. Wal-mart usually only sells them around x-mas time though.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Kalmah
Different boards work for different people from my experience.

I havn't snowboarded in a while, but anything longer than 147 length and they start getting more diffficult to manuver for me. I'm quite short though. Get something where both ends are rounded off. A friend of mine bought one where the ends where rounded, but had a little bit of a strange curve (similar to skateboard) where it looked like it dipped down a little before dipping back up.. and the ends had a flat cutoff (partually rounded).. I couldn't ride that thing. But it was a very expensive board.

My advice would be to try some out first. Figure out what suits you the best. I started out on one of those decent wal-mart boards. The bindings sucked majorly. But it was exremely easy to manuver. Wal-mart usually only sells them around x-mas time though.

I was under the impression the height of the board should be around your forehead for a standard size. Is that not the case?

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: Kalmah
Different boards work for different people from my experience.

I havn't snowboarded in a while, but anything longer than 147 length and they start getting more diffficult to manuver for me. I'm quite short though. Get something where both ends are rounded off. A friend of mine bought one where the ends where rounded, but had a little bit of a strange curve (similar to skateboard) where it looked like it dipped down a little before dipping back up.. and the ends had a flat cutoff (partually rounded).. I couldn't ride that thing. But it was a very expensive board.

My advice would be to try some out first. Figure out what suits you the best. I started out on one of those decent wal-mart boards. The bindings sucked majorly. But it was exremely easy to manuver. Wal-mart usually only sells them around x-mas time though.

I was under the impression the height of the board should be around your forehead for a standard size. Is that not the case?

Between nose and chin

 

[Moemar]

Actually, ideal board length is determined more by your weight, and not your height. However, most people are fairly proportional, so it's a decent rule of thumb. But also beyond that, a longer board might be harder to control, but will probably give you better speed.

 

[lightpants]

151 is on the shorter end of adult boards, but it should be good to learn on. Tell him you will give him $150 for it. Use it for a year or two when you get more advanced buy a new board and sell it for $100.

3.????
4. Profit!

 

[slightlyhuman]

< 3 3 duck

 

[Edge17]

We agreed on $170, does that sound alright to you guys?