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Any Snowboards like the Prophet?
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Ok, so I've been thinking about fat skis alot lately cause I'm getting some, and of course the Prophet 130 comes to mind right away, basically I'm wondering this: Since the Prophet is such an amazing leap in BC skiing, is there anything comparable in a snowboard? The Burton Fish is the only true powder board I can think of offhand, and it can't be ridden switch so....anything huge and crazy like the Prophet for snowboarders?
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most snowboards... even park boards are as wide as two prophets (26 cm)... some are as wide as 29 cm ( my roomate is 165 pounds and rides a 167 that is 28cm wide)... Tahoe
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if you buy 2 snowboards then you have a new pair of Prophets.
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Snowboards are already wide enough dude
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theres a variety of powder snowboards: swallowtails, wide boards, tapered shapes and really long boards. big guns are like 190 cm plus. which sounds small cuz skis easily get to be that size, but on a snowboard thats outrageously large. the Fish is powder board made for trees, thats why its tapered so dramatically. Big mountian riders like jemery jones or axle pauporte use directional big mountain boards, that are usually in the 160s or low 170s and really stiff. the freestyle guys use freestyle boards that go both ways usually in the mid160s for the alaska shit you see in absinthe videos and what not. to ride them switch in powder is hard but doable. riding switch in the trees is harder than riding switch fast in an open bowl. but i think a snowboard with reverse shape would be ill and make switch pow turns easier.
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the only good response in this thread.
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yeah goodcall
snowboards in general perform alot better in pow
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Yeah, I know snowboards are wide enough for pow anyway, I snowboard too sometimes, I was just wondering if there was a insanely fat snowboard, that would be to snowboards what the Prophets were to skis.
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