It is very easy to get confused by all the brand specific names for their snowboard camber technology, where you have names going from lowrize rocker to EC2BTX. This is a visual guide to some of the big brands and shows you the different camber shapes that they are offering.
Burton Camber Types
Traditional Camber
The traditional style of camber keeps great edge hold for high speed turning and stability. Camber boards give the most pop.
V Rocker
The V Rocker has rocker shape in between your feet, which continues outside your feet to the tip and tail, which give a loose playful feeling.
S Rocker
The aim of S Rocker boards is float, and the large on the nose keeps you afloat, while compressed the camber helps lift the nose even more.
Flying V
A Springloaded blend of camber and rocker performance, Flying V™ offers the best of both worlds. Rocker overall, including between and outside your feet, enhances playfulness and float through pow. Underneath your feet, subtle camber zones focus edge-control for crisp snap, added pop, and power through turns.
Flat Top
Capita Camber Types
Traditional Camber
The traditional style of camber keeps great edge hold for high speed turning and stability. Camber boards give the most pop.
Zero Camber
A flat design that adds a slightly looser feel, with the same effective edge as a camber board.
Boards that use Zero Camber:
Hybrid FK
A blend of traditional, zero and reverse camber types. Keeps an easy riding feeling while still giving you the pop and response from a camber board.
Boards that use Hybrid FK:
Urban FK
Flat between the bindings, and rocker from the inserts out. Makes for easy pressing and buttering, best for jibbers.
Boards that use Urban FK:
Freestyle FK
Flat from the insert to insert, then rocker from there out. The flat section helps with stability at high speeds, and the raised contact points keep turns easy and help float in powder.
Boards that use Freestyle FK:
Freeride FK
Has a large camber section to keep the edge hold at high speeds, and elevated contact points for landing and floating in camber.
Boards that use Freeride FK:
Pow FK
Rocker nose helps keep you afloat in powder, and the flat base helps keep power in the tail for landings and hard turns.
Boards that use Pow FK:
- Charlie Slasher FK
Lib Tech Camber Types
Banana Technology (BTX)
Mervin’s revolutionary original all-terrain freestyle banana blend. Rocker between your feet blended with flat-to-mild camber to contact points. Focuses pressure between your feet for easy turns, great edge hold on ice, and a mild amount of pressure to the tip and tail for unreal float and catch-free freestyle.
Enhanced Banana (!BTX!)
Mervin’s magical world. Our highest rocker between the feet blended with a secret numerical formula of camber to the contact points. Focuses our maximum pressure between your feet for magical turns and edge hold on ice and a mild amount of pressure to the tip and tail for end-to-end stability and pop while maintaining incredible float and catch-free freestyle .
EC2 Elliptical Camber / Banana Blend (EC2 BTX)
Mervin’s new quiver killing freestyle blend that performs halfway between original Banana Tech and C2. Rocker between your feet blended with elliptical camber to contact points. Focuses pressure between your feet for easy turns, great edge hold on ice and a medium amount of pressure to the tip and tail for end to end stability and pop while maintaining great float and catch-free freestyle.
- Attack Banana
C1 Banana Camber Combo Blend (C1 BTX)
Matt Cummins’ directional Mt. Baker freeride set up: banana in front, camber in the rear. Rocker between your feet with flat-to-mild camber from the front foot to nose contact, blended with camber from the back foot to the rear contact area. Focuses pressure between your feet for easy turns, great edge hold on ice and a mild amount of pressure to the tip for unreal catch-free float and shifts our maximum amount of pressure to the tail for power, stability, pop and control in critical situations.
- La Nina Mc
C2 Power Banana Camber / Banana Blend (C2 BTX)
Travis Rice’s favorite blend for aggressive power snowboarders pushing the envelope. Rocker between your feet blended with a radial camber to contact points. Focuses pressure between your feet for easy turns, great edge hold on ice and a solid amount of pressure to the tip and tails for power end-to-end stability, pop and maximum control in critical situations while maintaining float.
- Travis Rice Pro HP
- Travis Rice Pro
- TRS: Total Ripper Series
- Skunk Ape HP
- Skunk Ape
- Jamie Lynn Phoenix Series
- Mark Landvik Phoenix Series
- Dark Series
C3 Camber Dominant Banana (C3 BTX)
Camber enhanced with Banana Tech for aggressive new traditionalists and 90’s camber studs. Camber made better than it ever was with the addition of of banana rocker between your feet. Focuses a mild amount of pressure between your feet for carving, edge grip on ice, float in powder and our maximum amount of pressure out to the tip and tails for super power, end-to-end stability, pop and control in critical situations.
- Jamie Lynn Phoenix Classic Series
- Hot Knife
Tip to Tail Rocker (TTTR)
Rocker from Tip to tail: POWDER ONLY DESIGN incredible float in pow. Drifty on hardpack: Rocker extends past your feet lifting the board off the snow outside your feet shortening edge contact and resulting in no edge pressure outside feet and a dramatic loss of control on hardpack and ice.
- Travis Rice Banana Hammock
Never Summer Camber Types
Rocker & Camber
Ride Camber Types
All MTN Rocker
- Wildlife
- Manic
Camber
- DH
Highrize rocker
- Slackcountry UL
Hybrid All Mountain
The Hybrid all mountain has rocker section at the nose, and camber through the rest of the board.
Hybrid Lowrize
Rocker at the tip and tail, and a small amount of camber through the middle.
Hybrid Twin
Even amounts of rocker at the ends of a large camber section.
- DH2
Ride Lowrize
Almost a flat board, the center is a large stable zone with rocker on the tip and tail raising the contact points slightly.
Twin Rocker
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