Below, you’ll find a guide to these popular profiles, along with tips for deciding a winner in the great camber vs. rocker snowboard debate. What keeps your board stable during turn initiation ...

Rocker profiles are also known as “reverse camber” profiles. This is because instead of an arch in the middle, these boards have a dip (or rocker). This moves the point of contact from near ...

Accordingly, each side of the board is shaped to optimize each type of turn: a deeper sidecut on the heel side and a more shallow one on the toeside. The Head Space includes a hybrid camber with a ...

Flat Camber: A flat-camber profile is exactly that: flat. The board lays flat on a table throughout the midsection, underneath the bindings and into the tip and tail where it then kicks up. Rocker: ...

The Burton Skeleton Key gets its name from its unique shape, which makes this a purely directional board with positive camber in the back and rocker in the front. The result is one of the best all ...

as it dictates how and where a board interacts with snow. There are two primary profiles to be familiar with: camber and rocker. Camber: Camber is the time-honored, traditional profile.

and has a huge effect on how a board rides. There are three basic types – positive/traditional camber, rocker and zero/flat. Directional boards have a front and back, while twintips are the same ...

Rocker, also known as reverse camber, refers to the bend of the board or ski being more like the bottom of a rocking chair, with the lowest point in the center, and exaggerated raised tips.

sometimes skis and boards just keep spinning. It takes skills to truly master the reverse camber landing, but it can be done. Powder to the rockerConditions are key and rocker was built for the ...

Really big. They scrapped the original lineup, and in a matter of months introduced an entirely new selection of rocker and camber boards for the 2008-2009 season. At first, distributors balked ...