The most essential snowboarding gear is a snowboard, boots, and bindings. Snowboards come in various sizes and shapes. The size of your snowboard depends a lot more on how much you weight and how flexible the board is and not on how tall you are.
You can ride any shape snowboard in any manner. However, certain shapes are made to make certain riding styles easier. For example if you like riding half-pipe, jumps, rails, jibs about the mountain, you should get a freestyle shaped board. Most freestyle shaped snowboards are twin tips. Twin tip means that both the nose and tail are shaped evenly so that it can be a lot more effortlessly ridden in both directions.
A Freeride snowboard is shaped with a longer and often times wider nose than tail. Should you are riding a lot of untouched powder fields than a freeride snowboard would be much better suited. The longer nose will allow the board to ride above the powder better. Should you like making nice big drawn out turns a freeride shaped board would also be recommended. NOTE: Like mentioned above any and all riding styles can be done with any board shape, theses are just the general uses for each type of board shape.
Snowboard bindings are the next essential piece of snowboarding gear. They connect you to your board and therefore you shouldn't go cheap on your bindings. Cheap snowboard bindings frequently times will break while your riding or strapping in. They make cheap bindings out of weak plastic that gets extremely hard and stiff when the temperature gets cold. When you go to strap-in the plastic bends and breaks. You ought to spend at least $130 on your bindings other wise the bindings you buy will be created out from the cheap plastic that breaks.
Snowboard boots are also really essential. They assist to direct the snowboard by transferring your body weight and movements to the bindings. Stiffer boots or hard shell boots are utilized for carvers or racers. They offer a quicker edge to edge response. Softer boots are more flexible and you are able to move your feet around easier and apply pressure to specific areas of the board. This is useful for doing snowboard tricks like rails, butters, jibs...etc. Expect to pay around $140 for a decent pair of snowboard boots.
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