alpine snowboard

A few top level boardercross racers also ride alpine snowboards.

The distinguishing characteristic of an alpine snowboard stance is relatively aggressive binding angles.

There are three main types of alpine snowboard: race, freecarve, and all-mountain.

Virus - German alpine snowboard builder.

Alpine snowboards are stiffer and narrower than freestyle or freeride boards.

Donek.com - North American alpine snowboard builder.

Kessler - Swiss alpine snowboard builder.

Pogo - European alpine snowboard builder.

Alpine snowboards tend to be longer and thinner with a much stiffer flex for greater edge hold and better carving performance.

SGproteam.com - The only international "Pro Team" left in the alpine snowboard circus.

Apex Snowboards - Austrian alpine snowboard builder.

Alpine Punk - Swedish alpine snowboard builder.

Ogasaka - Japanese alpine snowboard builder.

Goltes - Slovenian alpine snowboard builder.

Deeluxe Boots - Austrian Alpine Snowboard Boot company.

Andrès moved to Whistler, BC and joined the Canadian National Alpine Snowboard Team in the fall of 1995.

F2 Alpine Snowboarding - Alpine Snowboard, binding, INTEC adapter & plate manufacturer.

Alpine snowboards use plate bindings that are much stiffer than the common strap bindings found on most snowboards, although a range of bindings are available that offer varying degrees of stiffness.

When experimenting with successively narrower alpine snowboards to allow for quicker turns, the Fey brothers ended up with a board that could not fit hard-plate snowboard bindings, and tried telemark bindings instead.

Alpine Snowboard equipment is a ski-like hardshell boot and plate binding system with a true directional snowboard that is stiffer and narrower to manage linking turns with greater forces and speed.

Shaped skis were almost unheard of until the early 1990s, when skiers began noticing certain advantages to the deeper sidecuts of snowboards, especially alpine snowboards, and the carving ability that this shape offered over the traditionally-shaped ski.

Freeride, powder, and alpine snowboards are non-symmetrical so theoretically riding them backwards with the tail facing downhill is riding fakie, and riding with switched bindings (goofy setting if you are regular) with the nose pointing downhill is riding switch.