For me, riding sideways has always been about turning. Even when skateboarding as a kid, I was more drawn to speed and carving than hitting our local bowl — an asphalt-covered drainage ditch called the “Banana Bowl” in my hometown of Gothenburg. I got the biggest rush from pumping for speed on a slalom deck or bombing a hill.

Snowboarding didn’t interest me much until I encountered the fully laid-out Vitelli turn on a trip to the Dolomites. (Serge Vitelli invented the euro carve.) From then on, I was hooked on snowboarding.

With this in mind, it’s easy to understand why my first shape was a split-tail carver called the “Afterburner.” And the reason for creating my own shape? I couldn’t find a board that suited my style of riding. Snowboards for carving back then were narrow race boards — highly specialized tools built for riding gates. I wanted to do fully arcing surf turns on groomers without skidding or booting out.

That was a long time ago. Fast-forward to the present day, and you’ll find that all Stranda boards have carving DNA built into them. More in some, less in others, but they all excel in edge grip. What differs is how they turn in when you put the board on edge.

BEST CARVING SNOWBOARDS 2027

Looking for a carving snowboard with serious edge hold, deep-turn confidence, and enough width to avoid boot-out? Here are the Stranda boards I recommend for riders who want to carve harder, cleaner, and deeper.

For me, a carver is meant to slingshot you into a deep 180-degree carve across the fall line. This is where the Cheater excels, with its perfect combination of camber, variable sidecut, and torsional stiffness through the center, paired with a softer torsional flex in the nose. When you put this board on edge, carving feels like cheating — hence the name.

New for the coming 2027 season, the Slicer follows a similar philosophy but in a very user-friendly package: short, fat, and packed with effective edge for extreme edge hold. A perfect carver if you want a compact shape with a lot of grip.

If you want to mix a surfy ride with awesome carving, take a look at the Bowlrider 2.0 or the Shorty. With plenty of tip and tail rocker combined with camber underfoot and intelligent multi-radial sidecuts, they are incredibly fun tools for surf-style carving on groomers, while also performing beautifully in deep snow. You could call them “surf carvers.” They both come in wide versions, so bigger-footed riders don’t have to worry about booting out.

The Pipeliner 2.0, on the other hand, is a full-camber board with a generous amount of early rise in the nose that begs to be pushed hard. Its speed limit is extremely high, yet it still lends itself to soulful, surfy turns. This is our most high-end shape, and it delivers in spades.

See you on the groomers!