vanguard like snowboarding?

**groovedaddy** · 06-10-2007 11:20 AM

as of now I ski :[ but I am going to board this season and I tried out a vanguard for the first time the other day. I told the kid who let me try it that it had a really funky feel and I felt a lot different riding it and he said that's kinda what it feels like to snowboard. Anybody ride one and able to vouch for that haha I'd love to know.

**Metalhead8290** · 06-10-2007 11:22 AM

i find that the feeling of longboarding and snowboarding are Totally diffrent. But the skills used in longboarding can be applied to snowboarding.

**Bluetooth** · 06-10-2007 11:22 AM

I don't think that it feels like a snowboard.

**Lee W** · 06-10-2007 11:48 AM

It is too responsive to feel like a snowboard. The board carves very deep and very fast, and also has a bunch of camber and flex. The flex however has a different feel than snowboard flex because it's between your feet instead of at the nose and tail outside of your bindings. Carving hills a certain way on it can feel quite similar to snowboarding, but no the deck itself doesn't feel as much like snowboarding as some other boards I've ridden.

**mc99david** · 06-10-2007 04:15 PM

the guy that builds them used to build snowboards. they actualy have a very similar flex but to make it all the way like a snowboard it woud depend on the trucks and wheels too

**Wells** · 06-10-2007 05:48 PM

I'm in the same boat--lifetime skier, longtime skateboarder--and they're both similar and very different.

You turn skateboards and snowboards in roughly the same manner--you lean into the turn with your ankle--but skateboards are significantly more responsive and don't slide nearly as much. There's also that whole bit about being strapped into a specific stance.

If you strap into a snowboard you'll be ahead of the vast majority of the other beginners, but you'll have a way to go.