Right Size?

Just bought my first board on Black Friday. The dude sold me a
Rossignol Split 160 wide. I am 6'3" 185 lbs size 12 shoe. He said the
board would be good for learning tricks, but a little slower than a
longer board.

I am new to boarding. I had a full season last year, this will be my
second.

From what I have read, this board seems a little small. It comes up to
my shoulder blades.

Looking for expert opinion. Should I return this board or what?


Thanks,

Sparrowhawk

wrote:
Just bought my first board on Black Friday. The dude sold me a
Rossignol Split 160 wide. I am 6'3" 185 lbs size 12 shoe. He said the
board would be good for learning tricks, but a little slower than a
longer board.

I am new to boarding. I had a full season last year, this will be my
second.

From what I have read, this board seems a little small. It comes up to
my shoulder blades.

Looking for expert opinion. Should I return this board or what?


Thanks,

Sparrowhawk


We don;t know two of the most important things:

1 - Your skill level. One season of 20 trips for someone that learns
fast is a lot different than one season of 3 trips for someone who
doesn't

2 - Is your main use for the board freeride, freestyle or both?

This appears to be a board optimized for freestyle. My guess is that
for the average person with only one season of experience, they would
be better off with a board more balanced in capability or oriented to
freeride as those are the most important skills and what you need to
build up first. For a freeride board and someone of your weight/size,
160-164 should be about right.

wrote:
Just bought my first board on Black Friday. The dude sold me a
Rossignol Split 160 wide. I am 6'3" 185 lbs size 12 shoe. He said the
board would be good for learning tricks, but a little slower than a
longer board.

I am new to boarding. I had a full season last year, this will be my
second.

From what I have read, this board seems a little small. It comes up to
my shoulder blades.

Looking for expert opinion. Should I return this board or what?

Google ate my last post. In short, if you plan to be spending most of
your time in the park, it is a decent starter board. I'm assuming you
"full season" was at least 10 days, if so any you plan to be riding
groomed runs most often, then I would recommend getting a "freeride"
board, possible a little longer like a 163. Unless you are doing
freestyle a lot, you pretty much never want a "freestyle" board, ignore
the salesman when he says "oh, but it can carve well." A SUV might
handle well for SUVs, but it's never going to handle corners better
than a sports coupe.

Btw that model board (discontinued now) sells for $250 MSRP, online you
can find it for $190, so I'm hoping you got it for $150 or less
considering it was Black Friday.

Experience: 5 days.
learned in a day, had it down within 2.

Just so you know I returned the board today. After examining it closely
I realized 2 things.
a) It seemed a littel small
b) when standing on it, without the binding, my foot hit edge to edge.

I am going to go to a different shop.

Like I said to LoneRider in a reply email

My goals for this season a

Improve my carving
Learn to Ollie
Learn to Switch.

I guess I should shoot for a 161-163 Wide Freeride.

NOTE: I did pay 147 for the board.



lonerider wrote:
wrote:
Just bought my first board on Black Friday. The dude sold me a
Rossignol Split 160 wide. I am 6'3" 185 lbs size 12 shoe. He said the
board would be good for learning tricks, but a little slower than a
longer board.

I am new to boarding. I had a full season last year, this will be my
second.

From what I have read, this board seems a little small. It comes up to
my shoulder blades.

Looking for expert opinion. Should I return this board or what?

Google ate my last post. In short, if you plan to be spending most of
your time in the park, it is a decent starter board. I'm assuming you
"full season" was at least 10 days, if so any you plan to be riding
groomed runs most often, then I would recommend getting a "freeride"
board, possible a little longer like a 163. Unless you are doing
freestyle a lot, you pretty much never want a "freestyle" board, ignore
the salesman when he says "oh, but it can carve well." A SUV might
handle well for SUVs, but it's never going to handle corners better
than a sports coupe.

Btw that model board (discontinued now) sells for $250 MSRP, online you
can find it for $190, so I'm hoping you got it for $150 or less
considering it was Black Friday.

wrote:
Experience: 5 days.
learned in a day, had it down within 2.

Just so you know I returned the board today. After examining it closely
I realized 2 things.
a) It seemed a littel small
b) when standing on it, without the binding, my foot hit edge to edge.

My boots extend past the edges on both my boards in my 6/21 degree
binding angles, but it's not a problem. If it extended too far it would
be.