Arbor Foundation Snowboard 2018

Arbor Foundation Snowboard 2018

The Arbor Foundation 2018 is our starting place: a quality–made, entry–level snowboard with style. It’s the perfect board for riders who want to get to the next level. The Foundation is a Rocker System design that’s easy to ride and will help you stay on the mountain longer.

Features

The System Rocker: The System Rocker design provides a surfy ride, with natural float and cleaner tracking. This rocker deck's design eliminates the leverage required to release and re-engage a snowboard's outside contact points. In translation, riders get a seamless turn initiation, better float in powder, and more fluid spins and slides.

Parabolic Profiling: The System utilizes rocker and camber profiles created using the parabolic arc, which progressively reduces the amount of rocker or camber toward the tip and tail of a snowboard, creating nice low profiles. On our System Rocker designs, this ensures that the outside contact points are close enough to the snow to engage when maximum performance is required – higher speeds, fully loaded turns, and bigger landings. On System Camber designs, this guarantees that the outside contact points do not dig too far into the snow, creating a cleaner, less catchy performance that makes it easier to turn, spin, and ride fast.

Medium Flex: 3 (1=Soft, 10=Stiff)

Mountain Twin: Mildly directional with symmetrical tip and tail dimensions but a shorter tail than tip.

Spoonhead Tip: All-mountain function in a range of snow conditions.

Grip Tech Contact Points: Grip Tech is a tri-radial sidecut design that is not “blended.” Natural shaping intersections, that in the past were eliminated, have been transformed into heel-and-toe contact points that provide a direct, more ergonomic way to grip the snow when additional control is needed. The extra contacts also form pivot zones that make turning easier and more natural. Grip Tech effectively moves a board’s primary interface with the snow underfoot, allowing us to deliver designs that don’t lose performance as we lift leading sections of the effective edge from the snow for a less grabby ride. Those designs include rocker, or camber with our new Uprise Fenders.

Clear Coat Top Sheet

2x4 8 Pack Inserts: Provide a wide stance range, while at the same time delivering critical micro adjustability.

Single Malt Core: Our standard wood core for highly reliable return and lasting durability. Made from 100% sustainably grown Poplar wood.

Biax Glassing: A biax over biax lay-up that’s designed for park and street inspired all-mountain riding. Also creates a good platform for learning.

360 Rails: A 360 degree, fully wrapped sidewall that eliminates the need for tip fill, while effectively tying the whole snowboard together. A technology that delivers incredibly tight tolerances for improved board life and durability.

Extruded Base: Dense and long-lasting.