Home :: Slope Style Racing

Slope Style Racing- One Mountain, One Snowboard and the Need for Speed

Slope style racing is also known as freecarving and alpine snowboarding. This is a challenging type of snowboarding that involves a groomed slope with almost ice like snowboarding conditions. The challenge is to maintain control while whizzing down a slope and avoiding gates and poles that are placed in the racing zone. This is actually one of the lesser practiced types of snowboarding. Slopestyle racing is an Olympic event and it is called the parallel giant slalom. It debuted in 2002.

If you are interested in starting to slopestyle race you are going to need different equipment than your normal freeride snowboarding equipment. Your protection gear can stay the same but your hardware has got to go. In slopestyle racing you need:

A racing snowboard
Hard boots
A plate binding system

The slope style snowboard is longer and narrower than normal free ride snowboards. They also do not have the same flex because there are barely any jumps, if even at all. Therefore, they are much stiffer to maintain control over the board. The length of the racing snowboards are generally between 150 and over 200 centimeters long which can be 40 centimeters longer than a normal male snowboard. The nose and the tail are also shortened. They do not curl up because this slows the board down. If you are looking for a slopestyle racing snowboard, two excellent snowboards are the Forum Manual Insert 150 and the Rome Artifact 159.

Slope style racing may have many names but one thing is for sure, it is a style made for speed. If you love to go as fast as you can down the slope and you want a challenge then slopestyle racing could be just for you.

Shop for:

Snowboards Mountainboards Protective Gear Apparel Bindings Accessories Magazines

Home \| Contact us \| Articles \| Terms of Use \| Partners Snowsports Directory \| Refer to us
© 2004-2007 Snowboard-Mountain.com. All Rights Reserved.
This site is protected under both U.S. Federal copyright law and international treaties No part of this work, including text, look and feel, layout, images, may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means.