All About Stomp Pads For Snowboards

Stomp pads are far from the most necessary of snowboarding items and as such it's a fair bet that you've never heard about them, let alone seen one. And if you have, you probably had no idea at the time what it was exactly you were looking at. Stomp pads vary in shape and size, but their function remains more or less identical. Essentially, the function of a stomp pad is to provide your rear foot with significantly more grip (traction, if you will) when getting off the chairlift. The reason for this, as all but the newest snowboarders can tell you, is that your back foot should not be in its binding until you're clear of the chairlift, and the stomp pad allows you do exactly that; get clear without your foot slipping across the surface of the board.

Stomp pads for snowboards are by no means highly technical snowboarding accessories, you simply remove the backing and place the pad, adhesive side down, onto your snowboard. The best position, as you might expect, to place a stomp pad is next to your rear binding. Moreover, stomp pads can also be used to remove snow and grit from your boot tread. You could of course get something that looks like it came from your grandmother's bathroom, but like snowboards themselves, stomp pads can be found in virtually every design, style and color imaginable, all the better to help you find one that perfectly complements your board.

Dakine, for instance, offer a host of snowboard stomp pads. One such product, a spike stomp pad, is composed of five spike strips that can be cut apart and reconfigured into whatever design or layout you want. Yet another is completely transparent in order to ensure that it doesn't cover up your board's graphics. For Burton board owners, there's even a stomp pad for your snowboard that's made of raised Burton logos that perfectly complement the rest of your board. But the stomp mat-style design is far from the only form of traction you can use, some products forego the whole 'pad' construction altogether and offer up to a half-dozen raised studs that can be applied to the board however the mood grabs you.

The material from which stomp mats are constructed also differs greatly between manufacturers and brands. From rubber stomp pads to plastic to hybrid polycarbonate-aluminium, these ain't your grandpa's stomp pads. Or perhaps you'd prefer yours to be made from polyurethane with copper inlays? For something seemingly so innocuous, there's a whole lot of choice when it comes to choosing a snowboard stomp pad. Demon even offer a stomplock variant that makes provision for a lock so that you can secure your board when not in use.

I like you, I really do. And because I like you I've gone and gathered together all the snowboarding-related products I could find and arranged them all nice like just to the right of this article. Not only will you find great deals on a snowboard stomp pad or two (which are already about the cheapest piece of snowboarding equipment you'll ever own), but everything else as well.

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