History of Snow boarding

Each subdiscipline tends to favor a slightly different snowboard design. Freestyle and freeride snowboards are typically around 25cm in width (with some freestyle boards as wide as 28cm), around 145-165cm in length (depending on the rider's height), and the use a [sidecut radius]? of 7 to 9 meters. Alpine snowboards run from 160 to 200cm in length, 16 to 21cm in width, and sidecuts typically range from 10 to 17 meters.