Types of snowboarding styles

1) Freestyle

The main focus of freestyle is on jumps, tricks, rail slides, halfpipes and switch riding. Here, snowboarders usually use soft boots and a short, maneuverable board which are designed to allow users to display their jumps, spins and riding switch proficiently. In this case, there are boards that are designed specially only for the different types of tricks to carry out the movement smoothly. Freestyle snowboarding is popular for competitions, with competitors competing in the halfpipe, quarterpipe, slopestyle and big air categories. This style is largely encouraged for beginners.

2) Freeride

This type is suitable for people who enjoy the mountain experience: open terrain, backcountry chutes, fresh powder, trees etc. People who enjoy craving, catching air and are comfortable with the other styles will mostly challenge to take up this style. This style has versatile equipments to adapt to the rough terrains and soft boots are used. However, the boards are much longer and more directional in shape.

3) Freecarve/ Race

This style is not very popular and can be known as alpine snowboarding. Freecarving takes place on hard-pack or groomed runs, focusing lots on the ultimate carving turns. On a different note, hard boot is preferred in this case and users adhere to the plate binding systems. Also, the snowboards are stiff, narrow and quite long.