pick your perfect stranda
The thrill of locking into a turn and arcing across the fall line defines Stranda. Every shape in the collection is purpose-built to help you make the best turns of your life.
How to Choose a Snowboard
To choose the right snowboard, start by understanding your riding style, how board specs affect performance, and how body size determines board size. Use this guide to quickly grasp these concepts and confidently choose the board model and size that’s ideal for you.
Know Your Riding Style
Understanding what type of terrain and snow conditions you want to ride the most is the first step in choosing a board model.
All-Mountain/Freeride
Freeride boards offer versatile performance across the entire mountain. These models feature a directional shape, a hybrid full camber profile, and a damp board feel for confident stability and precise response shredding powder, steeps, or groomed runs. If you want one board that can do-it-all, go for an All-Mountain / Freeride board.
Carving boards are made for laying down deep, powerful turns on groomed runs. These models feature a long effective edge length, a full camber profile, and a grounded board feel for supreme edge hold, stability, and turn response. If you want a board that’s tuned for trenching corduroy, go for a Carving board.
Powder Surf
Powder boards are surf-inspired shapes made for riding in fresh snow. These directional shapes feature long rockered noses and tapered tails that offer exceptional float and nimble handling on the deepest days. If you want a board that will slash like a surfboard and float with minimal effort, go for a Powder Surf board.
Backcountry
A splitboard is the best tool for escaping the resort boundaries and accessing backcountry terrain. Splits feature directional shapes that excel in variable conditions and offer climbing efficiency without sacrificing downhill performance. Pick a Splitboard model based on the backcountry terrain you ride the most and your riding style.
Know Your board shape
Board shape is defined by the outline you see when looking at the topsheet straight on. Along with profile, shape plays a critical role in how a board rides in different terrain or snow conditions. The interplay of the nose, sidecut, and tail shape largely determines carving, freeriding, freestyle, and powder performance.
Directional freeride
Unlike a “twin” snowboard, directional freeride shapes have unique nose and tail shapes. They’re designed to balance edge hold, float, high-speed stability, and stomping power. To varying degrees, the nose is longer and wider than the tail, which drops the tail and pops up the nose in soft snow. These shapes are made for riding natural terrain and usually have longer sidecuts that keep the board from feeling twitchy when riding fast in variable conditions. The Bowlrider 2.0, Descender, Descender Evolution, Shorty, and Tree Surfer are directional freeride shapes.
Volume-shifted
Volume-shifted shapes are compact directional shapes that compress the surface area of a larger board into a shorter, wider board. By reducing the length and increasing the width, these shapes offer amazing float and nimble maneuverability. Like directional freeride shapes, the nose is longer and wider than the tail, which drops the tail and pops up the nose in soft snow. The tail taper combined with a short sidecut makes these shapes ideal for ripping through tight trees or narrow terrain hallways. The Biru, Makrill, and Slicer are volume-shifted shapes — the Slicer applies the compact volume-shifted platform to a carving-specific setup.
Carving Specific
Carving-specific shapes feature directional outlines with long effective edge lengths. By maximising the amount of edge engaged on a turn, these shapes offer incredible edge grip and carving power. Carving shapes usually have long sidecuts that deliver confident stability when ripping big arcing turns. The Cheater, Pipeliner 2.0 and Slicer feature carving-specific directional shapes.
Know Your Board Size
Every Stranda board model has unique sizing guidelines. Board shape determines whether it is designed to be ridden shorter, longer, or the same length as a “traditional” snowboard.
Volume-shifted shapes like the Biru, Makrill, and Slicer are designed to be sized down. The width of these models compensates for the shortened running length.
The Cheater, Pipeliner 2.0, Shorty, and SuperGlider are designed to be ridden longer than a standard snowboard. The longer running length enhances glide and carving power.
Directional freeride shapes like the Descender, Bowlrider 2.0, and Tree Surfer follow traditional size guidelines and can be ridden in a size that matches your intended use. Go longer for better float in pow, go shorter for better response in steep, technical terrain.
But no matter the board model, your weight, height, boot size, and riding ability determine your ideal size. Check out our sizing guide below to learn how to size every board in the Stranda collection.
How to Size Your Stranda
| Board | How to size it |
|---|---|
| Biru | Ride 4–5 cm shorter than your normal board |
| Makrill | Ride 6–10 cm shorter |
| Slicer | Size down (volume-shifted) |
| Shorty | Size up 3–8 cm for float |
| Cheater | One length (170) — pick width by boot size: Standard / Wide / X-Wide |
| Pipeliner 2.0 | Longboard carver — ride long |
| SuperGlider | One size, 181 cm (rides shorter than it sounds) |
| Descender · Descender Evolution · Bowlrider 2.0 · Tree Surfer | Traditional freeride size — size up for float, down for technical |
Ultimate carving machine
$969
Freeride muscle, freestyle control
$799
All-Conditions, All-Terrain Versatility
$749
Nimble all-mountain carver
$890
All-mountain feel, freeride finesse
$989
Diverse powder performance
$949
Powder performance, piste precision
$949
High-powered freeride performance
$989
Pure powder and piste performance
$949
Powder racer, Surf slasher
$1,190
How do I choose the best Stranda board for me
Pick a board that matches your riding style and body size. All-Mountain / Freeride boards are the best for everyday shredding. Powder Surf and Carving boards are high-performance additions to any quiver.
Which Stranda board is best for powder?
The best powder board depends on your riding style. If you want a nimble board that wants to slash around in the forest and open bowls, go for a Powder Surf board. If you hunt for powder in steep technical terrain, go for an All-Mountain / Freeride board.
What Stranda board is best for carving?
Our premier carving boards are the Cheater, Pipeliner 2.0, and Slicer. Learn about the Stranda Carving collection and what makes each model unique.
Which Stranda board is best for everyday riding?
All-Mountain / Freeride boards are the best daily drivers. They feature versatile directional freeride shapes that work well in all conditions. Learn about Stranda All-Mountain/Freeride boards
Which Stranda board is best for beginners?
Stranda boards are designed for intermediate to expert riders. No boards in the collection are specifically tuned for beginners. Our most easily maneuverable All-Mountain / Freeride models are the Shorty and the Descender, both of which could help an aspiring rider quickly improve their skills.