Get killer performance and still have cash to drop on that season's pass. The Lux™ is an easy-flexing directional twin for riders looking to carve the learning curve to pieces. The snap and feel of the Super Fly® core feels responsive and lively under foot, and the NEW higher-density base keeps your speed up with little maintenance. Step up to the everlasting performance of the Lux, and make this winter the best one yet.
- SHAPE: Twin
- FLEX: Directional
- BASE: NEW High-Density Lightspeed™ Vision
- CORE: Super Fly Core with Dualzone™ EGD™ and Negative Core Profile
- FIBERGLASS: Biax™ React
- SIDEWALLS: Slantwall
- EDGES: Grip and Rip™ Edge Tune
- EXTRAS: Pro-Tip™ and NEW Infinite Ride™
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Which Goggles Are Best For Smaller Faces?
Many companies are making goggles with smaller frames. Some are specific to women, with femine colors and graphics but there are also many options for people who are more comforable in a smaller goggle. Electric makes the EG.5 which offers all the features and color options of the larger EG1. Anon makes the Majestic goggle, which is a women's specific model due to the graphics and colors. Oakley offers the A frame as its smaller model while the O frame is a standard size. The O frame XS is Oakley's kids goggle which is great choice for a growing face! Von Zipper's smaller frame is the Sizzle, available in a wide range of colors and prints. While goggle fit might not be as important as boot fit, it can still make a difference in fighting fogging and comfort all day long.
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Freeride vs. Freestyle - What's the difference?
It is important to note that while each style is unique, there is overlap between each style, and often no visible difference. The most common styles today are freeride, freestyle, and freecarve/race.
Freeride
The freeride style is the most common and easily accessible style of snowboarding. It involves, in the most simple terms, riding down any terrain available. This could include the beginner's first time down the bunny slope, or riding down a 60° slope in the backcountry. All the while freeriders may include aerial tricks and jib tricks borrowed from freestyle, utilizing whatever natural terrain they may encounter.
The freeride equipment usually used is a soft boot with a directional twin snowboard. Since the freeride style may encounter many different types of snow conditions, from ice to deep powder, the freeride snowboard is usually longer and has stiffer overall flex. A good example of a binding stance used is the forward stance with both leading and trailing feet in positive degree of arc ranges e.g. +9°/+15°.
Freestyle
This style incorporates the rider with man-made terrain features such as rails, boxes, handrails, jumps, half pipes, quarter pipes and a myriad of other features. The intent of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks.
The equipment used in freestyle is usually a soft boot with a twin tipped board, though freeride equipment is often used successfully. The most common binding stance used in freestyle is called "duck foot" which the trailing foot has a negative degree of arc setup while the leading foot is in the positive range i.e. -9°/+12°. Freestyle riders who specialize in jibbing often use boards that are shorter than usual, ones that have additional flex and ones that have filed down edges between both feet.
The majority of snowboard competitions concern this style of snowboarding.
Freecarve / Race
This often overlooked style of snowboarding focuses on carving and racing. Sometimes called alpine snowboarding, or the 'euro-carve', freecarving takes place on hard-pack or groomed runs and focuses on the ultimate carving turn. Little or no jumping takes place in this discipline. Freecarve equipment is a hard boot and plate binding system with a true directional snowboard that is usually very stiff and narrow to facilitate fast and responsive turns.
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