Welcome Center

Welcome and congratulations, you've found the home of alpine snowboarding on the web. We've put together this little greeting package of information to help you get started as a hardboot carver.

Why ride Alpine??

Check out Craving the Carve for our perspective.

Not quite ready?

Understandable. But are you riding the right equipment now? If you spend most of the time just cruising around the mountain with the occasional spin through the pipe/park, chances are good that you're not! Check out Snowboarding Equipment: Soft, Medium, or Hard? to find out.

So You Want To Try Alpine Snowboarding?

How to go about getting into hardboot carving, and trying the equipment.

How to Buy an Alpine Snowboard

Tips for buying that deck. Sizes, dimensions and designs explained. Do you want a race board, freecarver, or an all-mountain carver?

What's an asymmetrical snowboard?

Short answer: ancient history. Or read the long answer.

How to Setup Your Plate Bindings

This is serious business! Get it right the first time and save yourself some aggrivation.

Feel the Carve, Ride "The Norm"

How to start carving your snowboard. Can you carve your downhill edge?

The Norm - Part II

Try this next!

Tech Articles

Lots of technique articles in this section of the site. Everything from fine tuning your stance, to what to do with your knees and your butt, to carving the steeps. There's even an article on the physics of a carved turn.

Got more questions?

Be sure to check out our FAQs, and then check out the Carving Community where lots of carvers from all over come to hang out and talk shop or shoot the breeze.

Welcome, and HAVE FUN!!